The 2002 Korean and Japanese World Cup groupings have settled, and the smoke will only rise again next summer, while European clubs are reaching their climax.

With Yu Yong of Toyota Cup, Inter Milan defeated Bayern Munich again 2-0 at the Meazza Stadium. Bayern Munich suffered three consecutive games against Inter Milan, and then Inter Milan won Bologna in the league's make-up matches, which once again narrowed the distance with AC Milan and Juventus in the standings.

Immediately after Inter Milan went to Manchester, a heart-stirring 3:3 made Manchester United coach Ferguson almost vomit blood on the spot, and Ronaldo almost finished the countdown.

In the first three rounds of the Champions League group stage, Inter Milan won two wins and one draw, ranking first in the group, while Manchester United and Bayern ranked second and third, Boavista could only play soybean and ranked fourth without a single point. If this trend continues, Manchester United and Bayern will definitely miss the Champions League quarter-finals.

After returning to the league, Inter Milan steadily won the opponent 4:1 away, scoring 6 points in two supplementary games, and finally surpassed AC Milan and Juventus in the standings and became the top of the list.

According to Inter Milan Club Chairman Morati, 2001 was flawless and extremely dreamy for Inter Milan. The five-winning champion brought Inter Milan to the top and then continued to move towards the 15th league championship, and it seemed that it would not stop moving forward at all.

Now, the winter break is coming, and the team can get about half a month to rest to welcome the arrival of 2002.

At the end of the year, it is time to decide which one of the two major awards in international football will be won. Although "Mr. World Football" and "Mr. European Football" are two different awards, most of the candidates' faces are the same. The reason is very simple: most of the world's top stars play football in Europe.

The award "Mr. World Footballer" was established by FIFA in 1991. The head coaches of various national teams participated in the voting. They can vote for one of the top three players in their minds. According to the ranking order, these three players will get 5 points, 3 points and 1 point respectively. The one with the highest cumulative total score will become the World Footballer of that year. The coaches of the national team who run for the election cannot vote for their players.

The selection of the "European Footballer" award can be traced back to 1956. Its predecessor was the "Golden Ball" selected by the French Football magazine. The competition was conducted by sports journalists from 51 European countries. Each of them can select five players. According to the ranking order, these players will get 5 points, 4 points, 3 points, 2 points and 1 point respectively. The one with the highest cumulative total score will be elected as the European Footballer of the Year.

Since 1995, all players who play football in Europe can participate in the European Footballer selection regardless of their origin. Of course, the annual awards are not subject to the opinions of national team coaches and sports journalists. Ronaldo (World) and Summer (Europe) in 1996 are exceptions.

Since there is neither the World Cup nor the European Cup this year, most South American players who play in Europe give up participating in the Copa America, there are no rising stars among the candidates for the two awards, so the favorites can only be selected among the outstanding players in the Champions League and the League Cup.

There are many famous stars nominated for these two awards:

Real Madrid Trident

French stars Zidane and Feigo in Real Madrid ranked second and third, and were crushed by Zheng Zhi. This year, they may be even worse. They may not even be able to enter the top three, and they are not even as good as Raul. In last season's La Liga, Raul deserved to occupy the throne of the scorer king and is the second place in the Champions League. In Real Madrid's regaining the La Liga, Portuguese star Feigo made an indelible contribution. Although he failed to help Real Madrid retain the Champions League, he is still one of the best midfielders in Europe. The equally excellent is French midfielder Zidane, who still continues to command in the midfield.

French Musketeer

Henry, Vieira and Pire are the most deterrent weapons in Arsenal's "army" and these three musketeers will also be the strong contenders of the two grand prizes this year. Henry is the best forward in France, but he missed this year's Federation Cup, while Vieira and Pire shine in between. Many people believe that Vieira is the best all-around player in the Premier League at present, and Pire is also the most talented midfielder of the French team after Zidane.

British Guards

Without Irving, Beckham and Gerrard, England might miss the Korean and Japanese World Cup next year, and Eriksen would have been back to Sweden. People will not forget Irving's superb hat trick when England beat Germany 5-1, nor will they forget Beckham's free kick that turned the tide when facing the Greeks. Gerrard, who was nominated for the first time, is considered the new face this year. He is generally regarded as Gascoin's successor. As for Irving? His performance is no less than Ronaldo.

King Toti

Italian fans like to call Totti "Torti VIII". In the eyes of fans, he is the king on the green field and the hope for Italy to win the World Cup next year. He plays a core role in both Roma and Italy.

Bayern's two tiger players

The midfield engine Effenberg has now become Bayern's new generation of spiritual leaders, but he has refused to represent the German team in international competitions, with many amazing actions. Goalkeeper Kahn has always been regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in Europe.

Spanish Swordsman

Among the many candidate stars, Mendeta is a swordsman who wanders around the world. His outstanding performance in Valencia has won him recognition from the whole world.

Argentine Legion

Argentina is regarded as the team with the most hope to win the World Cup championship next year with its amazing performance in the World Cup. The team's two ace forwards, Crespo and Batistuta, not only competed for the center position in the national team for many years, but also faced tit-for-tat on the Apennines. Crespo won the second place in the Serie A top scorer with 26 goals last season, and Batistuta only scored 20 goals after transferring to Roma.

In addition, there are currently Peron, Valencia defender Ayala, and Roma's Samuel.

Ukrainian lightning

AC Milan's Ukrainian striker Shevchenko is an absolute "shot machine". He has scored 24 goals in Serie A for two consecutive seasons, and this brilliant record is likely to continue this season.

Nordic shock wave

Among the stars, there are also a pair of forwards from Nordics, namely Larson of Sweden and Sand Larson of Denmark, who plays for the Scottish Premier League champion Celtics. He scored as many as 35 goals in 33 league games and helped the Swedish team, who had been away from the World Cup for eight years, get a ticket to the South Korea-Japan trip next year. Schalke, who played for Sand, ranked second in the Bundesliga last season by only one point, but he himself became the Bundesliga tied for the scorer.

Brazilian magician

Brazil finally stumbling into the World Cup, although the only Brazilian players shortlisted this time were Rivaldo and Ronaldo. Rivaldo won two grand prizes in 1999. Last season, he almost single-handedly qualified for Barcelona to participate in the Champions League. Ronaldo was even more awesome, winning five championships with Inter Milan, not only setting a single-season goal record of 37 goals in the Italian League One, but also setting a record of 18 goals in the Champions League. He is one of the most popular players.

Finally, of course, it is the pride of Asia - the king Zheng Zhi!

He has all the club honors for Ronaldo, but Zheng Zhi has all the national team honors, but Ronaldo does not have any, because Zheng Zhi also won the Federation Cup championship on behalf of the Chinese team. In terms of personal honors, Ronaldo also has an advantage, and the goal record of the league and the Champions League is incomparable to Zheng Zhi.

Everyone on earth knows that this year's Golden Globe Awards will only be produced among Zheng Zhi, Ronaldo and Irving. The first two guys won the Champions League, Serie A, Italian Super Cup, European Super Cup and Toyota Cup, while Irving won the FA Cup, League Cup, League Cup and other honors.

French Football will announce the winners of the European Footballer this week, and FIFA will also announce the World Footballer of the Year this week.

UEFA and FIFA are fighting openly and secretly, and even the award presentation time was chosen on the same day, which made the recipients feel very embarrassed.

Fortunately, there is still a big difference between the two awards.

The award ceremony of the European Footballer is very simple, and it is not as good as the World Footballer. They only invite the Golden Globe winner to receive the award and arrange for the live broadcast room of the French TV station at 15:00 pm on the 18th. The award ceremony is also very short, and it takes less than an hour to go.

The World Footballer Awards are very grand and will be announced at the Zurich World Trade Center, when stars from all over the world will basically attend.

Before the award was announced, major European spinach companies also offered award odds one after another. Zheng Zhi and Ronaldo were indeed the two most popular players. It was just surprising that the odds positions of the two in the Golden Globes and World Footballer were different.

Among the odds of the Golden Balls, Ronaldo ranked first with 1 loss of 2.39, Zheng Zhi ranked second with 1 loss of 2.99, while Irving miserably ranked third with 1 loss of 5.95.

Among the odds of the World Footballer, Zheng Zhi happened to be in the position with Ronaldo, and Zheng Zhi Ronaldo was Irving. Obviously, the selection criteria for the Golden Ball Award and the World Footballerer were different, which also led to the changes in the positions of Ronaldo and Zheng Zhi, but this has nothing to do with Irving. The League Cup champion really cannot be compared with the Champions League champion, although Irving has achieved the ultimate.

In fact, Zheng Zhi knew the answer to the Golden Ball three days ago, because after "French Football" magazine came to Inter Milan training ground, he shot a short film for Ronaldo instead of looking for him. He had such experience, so he congratulated Ronaldo in advance.

There is no Golden Globe Award, maybe there is a World Footballer? Anyway, Zheng Zhi is not unhappy. No matter what, as long as the Golden Globe Award can be kept in Inter Milan, it doesn't matter whether he or Ronaldo wins either. As long as the votes are not diverted by the two, Irving Fisherman will benefit.

Of course, out of my favor for Irving, Irving is not a pity for me to win. After all, Irving is really outstanding...

On the morning of the 18th, in order to catch up with two awards, Moratti used a private plane and personally accompanied Ronaldo and Zheng Zhi to Paris, France to receive the award.

Irving didn't come, and it seemed that he knew he had no hope of winning the prize, so he simply ran to Zurich.

Ronaldo indeed won the 2001 European Footballer, the Golden Globe Award.

He won the championship with 176 points, Zheng Zhi ranked second with 140 points, and Irving, third, got points.

This is also the second time Ronaldo won the Golden Globe Award, and he won the Golden Globe Award twice in 1997 and 2001. This is already quite outstanding in the history of the Golden Globe Awards. Only Platini, Van Basten and Cruyff won the award three times.

Ronaldo was also very moved:

"I know I'm one of the popular candidates, but when I heard this news, I was still incredible. I think Zheng Zhi is very competitive. We are familiar with each other. Half of the credit I was able to win the award was his. He gave me too many assists, just because I was a striker, so I took advantage."

"Sorry, brother." When he said these words, he looked at Zheng Zhi in the audience affectionately and waved to Zheng Zhi.

There was warm applause from the scene. Ronaldo's attitude was like drinking water and not forgetting to dig the well.

"Same time, Irving deserves the Golden Globes. He is so outstanding. I have to pay high respects to him. He is a great opponent."

"I used to doubt whether I could return to this stage after being seriously injured."

"But I did it today, it's not a dream."

"Thank you, thank you..."

"Thank you everyone!"

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As he spoke, Ronaldo actually burst into tears on the spot! He couldn't help but look back on the past and even was moved by himself.

Only he himself knows best, how much effort he can return to the arena, how many hardships he has gone through!

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After the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, they flew to Zurich, Switzerland and began to walk the red carpet of World Footballer. And they are still the most popular and shining stars.

Here, they finally have time to accept interviews from the news media.

Zheng Zhi was surrounded by Chinese media reporters.

"Zheng Zhi, what does it feel like to lose the Golden Globe Award?"

"I didn't lose it. Ronaldo took it, and I'm very happy. I took it last year, not the first time." Zheng Zhi grinned, without any displeasure on his face.

He is such an open-minded person. His career path is still very long. It is impossible for him to take it every year, before Messi and Ronaldo rose. Well, there are actually two other guys in Brazil, Ronaldinho and Kaka.

It seems that the Golden Globe Awards are not enough?

"The World Footballer is different. In terms of odds of Spinach Company, you are ahead of Ronaldo. Maybe you can win a game back?"

Zheng Zhi smiled again, "That's the best. Ronaldo already has two world footballers. If he wins another one, it will be unbalanced with the Golden Ball."

"Let's wait and see."

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The World Football Awards Ceremony officially began.

The first one to be selected was Miss World Football, without any suspense.

Mia Hamm, who scored 129 goals, ranked first with 154 points, and 72 head coaches filled her into the vote. Sun Yat-sen, who was troubled by injury this year, only scored 79 points, and Mirbright, ranked third, had 47 points.

Then came the award ceremony of the World Footballer.

This is a suspense. The camera lens kept swaying in front of Zheng Zhi and Ronaldo, and he was too lazy to pay attention to Irving's side because the gentleman would only be born from the two of them.

"He can assist and score, he has the feeling of an artist, and such skills make him a modern all-round player."

"He is - Zheng Zhi!" Portuguese legend Eusebio finally pronounced Zheng Zhi's name.

Zheng Zhi, Ronaldo and Irving are still the top three. Among the 130 national team head coaches, Zheng Zhi has the highest score!

Compared with last year's selection results, the top two scores this year are very close. Zheng Zhi scored 250 points, Ronaldo scored 238 points, and Irving ranked third in 96 points.
To be continued...