Chapter 699: Four Golden Globe Awards
If a superstar wins four Ballon d'Or awards in his career, how high is his historical status?
If this superstar was still an active player, how high would his historical status be? If he was just a young player of 25, how high would his historical status be? This is a topic that countless professionals, football practitioners, media reporters and fans in the world of football have been vying to discuss in the past six months, and it is turning from an original hypothesis into a fact.
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At the Kicker magazine headquarters in Nuremberg, editor-in-chief Rainer Holzschuh typed the above lines in the document opened on his computer, preparing to start an article he had carefully prepared for his column.
The topic of discussion is that Su Dong won his fourth Golden Globe Award!
There is actually no need to ask "if" because the whole world knows this fact.
In the past season, who else deserves this Ballon d'Or besides Su Dong? He led Bayern to defend the treble, won the Bundesliga, Champions League and European Golden Boot in one fell swoop, and won all the major awards. How could such a player not win the Ballon d'Or? Or rather, if Su Dong does not win this Ballon d'Or, it will not be him who loses, but the Ballon d'Or.
Because the whole world will question the credibility of the Golden Globe Awards.
Not only the media think so, people in the football industry have basically recognized Su Dong. Even Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, the two superstars who are regarded as the two with the greatest chance of challenging Su Dong, have publicly expressed their support for Su Dong to win the Golden Ball.
It can be said that Su Dong's winning of the award was well deserved.
Now all that’s left is for the French Football magazine to officially announce it and stamp it as such.
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Kicker magazine is the oldest professional football magazine in the world, 26 years older than France Football, the organizer of the Ballon d'Or. It is also one of the best-selling professional football magazines in the world, with sales higher than France Football.
Rigorousness has always been the philosophy of Kicker magazine.
So much so that when all other newspapers, including Bild, began to hype that Su Dong had basically secured his fourth Ballon d'Or, Kicker magazine was still waiting for the latest news from France Football magazine.
It's just that editor-in-chief Rainer Holzschuh is preparing the manuscript for the magazine column in advance.
Kicker magazine is preparing to produce a special issue for Su Dong's fourth Golden Ball award and publish it along with the main issue.
To this end, the magazine has traveled to Lisbon, Valencia, Barcelona, Munich, and some cities in China in the past two or three months. Reporters have been following Su Dong's footsteps, wanting to present the most complete Su Dong football report in history to fans around the world.
This is the first time in the 90-year history of Kicker magazine.
Just as it was the first time in history that the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe won the Golden Ball.
Rainer Holzschuh attached great importance to this special issue and he even wrote a column for it, just like the editor-in-chief of France Football magazine would write the foreword in every Ballon d'Or special issue.
As the most influential individual football award in the world, the Ballon d'Or has been reforming and expanding over the past fifty years, but one thing has remained unchanged: they insist on refusing any sponsorship and always avoid cooperating with major corporate brands. They have only one purpose, which is to maintain the Ballon d'Or's transcendent status.
Indeed, in recent years, with FIFA's vigorous promotion of the World Footballer of the Year, the momentum of the Ballon d'Or has declined somewhat, but this is only influence. From a professional and authoritative perspective, all players and media still recognize the Ballon d'Or.
If you have to choose between the Ballon d'Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year, then there is no doubt that most people will choose the Ballon d'Or. This is authority! It is precisely because of this that it is more difficult to win the Ballon d'Or than the FIFA World Player of the Year.
Over the years, the player who has won the Ballon d'Or the most has only won it three times.
Cruyff, Platini and Van Basten have all won the Ballon d'Or three times. They are all great legends in the history of world football and are also superstars that countless fans talk about.
Even a great football emperor like Beckenbauer only won two Ballon d'Or awards. Superstars such as Keegan, Rummenigge, Ronaldo, etc. also only won two Ballon d'Or awards. And famous legends such as Zidane, Weah, Papin, Gullit, Paolo Rossi, Gerd Muller, Best, etc. only won one Ballon d'Or award.
It can be said that the difficulty of winning the Golden Globe Award can be clearly seen from this list and the number of times the award has been won.
And now, Su Dong is about to win his fourth Golden Globe Award.
If there was even a hint of suspense, I believe everyone would have doubts, but the problem is, there is really no suspense! Except for Su Dong, no one is qualified to receive this award.
A 25-year-old active player has won four Ballon d'Or awards. What does this mean? ...
Rainer Holtzshuh wrote a lot in one breath. The more he wrote, the more excited he became, and the more motivated he became.
He kept writing until the passion in his mind subsided a little, and then he stopped typing with his hands that were a little sore.
The coffee on the table had gone cold, but he drank it all in one gulp.
He lit a cigarette for himself, took two deep puffs, and exhaled gently. Suddenly, a cloud of smoke filled his eyes.
After checking the time, Holtzschuh put out his cigarette, opened a web page on his computer, and entered the official website of French Football Magazine. The loading speed was surprisingly slow.
This made Holtzshu smile bitterly.
At this moment, it is early morning in Europe, but around the world, countless media reporters and fans are refreshing this webpage, waiting for that report to come out.
Everyone’s belief in the matter is one thing, and speculation is another, but only official certification can be considered settled.
Holtzschuh could guess that tomorrow morning, newspapers, magazines, radio stations, television stations, major websites and forums in every city around the world would be frantically discussing Su Dongpo's winning of the Golden Globe Award.
I guess only football can have such an influence! Holtzshu got up and walked out of the office, went to the tea area and made himself another cup of black coffee. Just smelling the bitter smell of black coffee made him feel refreshed.
When I returned to my computer and refreshed the webpage, I found that a report was posted on the official website of French football on time.
"2009 European Golden Ball Award winner: Su Dong!"
Despite being well prepared and well-informed, Holzschuh's hands were shaking and he almost spilled his coffee. He quickly clicked on it and found a photo of Su Dong holding the Golden Globe Award.
But when I looked again, I suddenly saw more mysteries.
Su Dong in the photo is wearing casual clothes and the background looks like his home. The three people around him are senior executives of a French football magazine. The photo was obviously not taken by a professional photographer, and the Golden Ball in Su Dong's hand is also different from the past.
The report below said that it was a "Golden Globe Award" made of chocolate and shaped like a birthday cake.
Seeing this, Holtzshu couldn't help but burst out laughing.
In order to avoid early leaks, the French Football Magazine really took great pains and made sufficient preparations. Various processes were revised again and again, and they tried every means to keep the suspense until the last moment.
But what is the result?
As expected, when Bayern Munich defended their treble title, everyone had basically concluded that Su Dong was a sure winner.
But only French Football Magazine is deliberately hiding it.
"That guy Shawmier must be very depressed!" Holzshu said with a smile.
Kicker magazine and France Football magazine are somewhat dissatisfied with each other and are competing with each other. Naturally, there is some competition between the editors-in-chief of the two magazines. Holtzschuh is now very happy to see Chomiel's frustrated expression, which must be very interesting.
However, after laughing, Holtzschuh looked at Su Dong in the website report with more amazement in his heart.
It is true that every generation has talented people.
Originally everyone thought that it would take at least a few more years for the Bundesliga to rise, until players like Toni Kroos and Thomas Muller matured and took on the responsibility. However, who would have thought that the emergence of Su Dong would advance the rise of the Bundesliga by several years, and Bayern would have already become one of the top teams in Europe.
More importantly, Su Dong won the Ballon d'Or for the second time at Bayern.
Before Su Dong, there were only two players in Bayern's history who won the Golden Ball twice, Beckenbauer and Rummenigge.
In other words, with this Golden Ball Award, Su Dong will become a Bayern legend and enter the Hall of Fame.
Speaking of this, we have to mention a very interesting thing. Not long ago, the Catalan media launched a vote on whether Sudong should be included in the club's Hall of Fame.
Chairman Rosell and Bartomeu and others were opposed, but Laporta, who was against the board, and Cruyff and others were supportive. Finally, according to media statistics, the vast majority of fans believed that Sudong should be inducted into the Barcelona Hall of Fame.
So a very interesting scene appeared, Su Dong became another club legend who was forced away by Barcelona.
In fact, whether he wins the Golden Ball tonight or not, Su Dong is destined to enter the Bayern Hall of Fame, but with this Golden Ball, Su Dong's position in the Bayern Hall of Fame will definitely be higher. Even if he is not as good as Beckenbauer, Rummenigge and Gerd Muller, he is probably not far behind.
After all, he helped Bayern successfully defend the treble.
If they successfully defend the title this season, Sudong's position in Bayern's history will move one step further, and he may even threaten the historical status of Beckenbauer, Rummenigge and others.
Holtzschuh could not imagine that after only three years of service, Su Dong had achieved such amazing achievements. If he stayed in Bayern for a few more years, or even until retirement, how high would his historical status reach? By then, it would not only be Bayern, but the entire German football.
Thinking of this, Holzshu suddenly had an idea and his emotions surged again.
Many words came to his mind again, and he wanted to express them through the column.
Thousands of words can be written into an article, and can be condensed into one sentence. He only wants to say two words to Su Dong.
Oh shit!
(End of this chapter)
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