Two days later, the annual European Golden Ball Awards selected by French Football magazine were announced. The Italian captain Cannavaro, who played for the 2006 German World Cup champion Real Madrid, came to France Canal+ TV to attend the Golden Ball Awards ceremony, and received the Golden Ball Award from the editor-in-chief of "France Football" Elno, becoming the third defender to win this honor after "Football Emperors" Beckenbauer and Summer.

Cannavaro is another Italian player after Baggio won the European Golden Ball Award in 1993. At the same time, he is also the fifth player in Real Madrid and the sixth time to win the European Golden Ball Award. Previously, Stefano (two times), Copa, Figo and Ronaldo have won the awards.

Italian national team captain Cannavaro also became the first person in the history of the Golden Globes to win as a pure defender. Buffon, who had previously been very popular, did not become the second goalkeeper to win the European Golden Globes after Yasin, and Henry still did not get rid of the fate of the ten thousand-year-old second.

As a scoundrel on the court, the European Golden Globes - the highest award in the world football world's highest individual award, has never been optimistic about defenders. Its 50 years of ups and downs are a good example. There are only two people in the history of the Golden Globes - Germany's Beckenbauer and Summer have won this highest honor, and the reason for their award is their excellent offensive ability. This is the first time that a pure defender like Cannavaro has been.

If anything happens for the first time, then the first defender of the European Golden Ball Awards should and must be born in Italy, the Apennines, which is rich in top defenders. Cannavaro's seniors and seniors undoubtedly did the best in this regard. Facheti, Baresi, and Maldini set the best example, but the top defenders all regretfully missed this honor. In 1965, Facheti lost to Eusebio, and in 1989, the backbone of the great Milan dynasty and captain Baresi lost to his teammate Van Basten.

Their compatriot Martini was determined to complete this honor. In 1994, Martini won the runner-up of the European Champions League and the World Cup, and also won the World Best Player selected by World Football magazine that year. However, he lost to Romanho in the European Golden Ball Awards and finally ranked third. In 2003, AC Milan won the European Champions League again, and Martini was also very popular again. However, Martini lost again and ranked third again, which made him regret it for his life.

In 2002, Carlos followed Real Madrid to win the league championship, Champions League and Toyota Cup. The Brazilian national team won the World Cup championship at the end, but lost to his compatriot Ronaldo. It is said that when Carlos of Japan learned of this result, he cried bitterly. Yes! Even the greatest defender in world football history, he may only have one chance to win the European Golden Ball Award in his life!

The lucky Cannavaro successfully seized the opportunity of this life. 2006 was the year of the World Cup, and his performance in the World Cup will undoubtedly be the most important bargaining chip to win this honor. Nesta and Cannavaro are two world-class central defenders who were given to Italy by God. However, the unlucky Nesta retired from injury in the World Cup group stage for the third time in a row. At this time, it can undoubtedly better highlight Cannavaro's leadership position. Whether around him is the timid Barzali or the aggressive Matrachi, Cannavaro bet on every loophole like the leader, making Italy, which is not strong in attacking, become the team with the least goals conceded in the World Cup, and successfully won the fourth Hercules Cup in Italian history.

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In this year's European Golden Ball Awards, Cannavaro scored 173 points, with his national teammate Buffon and French striker Henry ranked second and third respectively, with their ratings of 124 and 121 points.

Cannavaro's ability to win the award is mainly due to his excellent performance in the World Cup and Juventus in the first half of the season. He has not yet adapted to Real Madrid's defensive system, so it is not only French public opinion, but also Spanish media have also raised strong doubts about Cannavaro's winning of the Golden Ball.

Of course, these have nothing to do with Zhang Yang and Marseille. The Marseille media is concerned about Zhang Yang's ranking. The final scoring ranking was announced. Zhang Yang ranked 41st among the 50 shortlisted stars. This is a scoring ranking that the entire Marseille cannot believe and disapprove of it.

The Ligue 1 Golden Boot, which scored 33 goals in a single season in the league, has so far the most goals in the Champions League, and has been chased by giants such as AC Milan, Inter Milan, Arsenal, Manchester United, and so on. It ranks so low?!

When the Marseille media held up for him, Zhang Yang himself was also quite depressed. Previous media reports and his self-confidence soared under his continuous goals, which made Zhang Yang feel good about himself and thought he might be ranked around 20th, but he didn't expect that he would be hit in the end.

The joy of winning the European Golden Boy Award before was diluted by this matter.

Mendes saw that Zhang Yang's emotions were affected, so he called to comfort Zhang Yang. In the final analysis, Zhang Yang did not receive recognition and favor from many judges. There are several aspects. First, the influence of the Ligue 1 is indeed not good. Everyone is generally concerned about the Premier League, La Liga and Serie A. Second, Zhang Yang is too young. Apart from the Ligue 1 Golden Boot, there is no real championship honor that can be achieved. In addition, there is also a very important point. Zhang Yang's Marseille team is not two giants like Milan and Arsenal, and has a much less influence. "Voice of the North" said disappointedly that if Zhang Yang played for a giant like Arsenal or Manchester United, the ranking would be at least within 20.

In a word, Zhang Yang's fame is not enough. Originally, without the national team's achievements, he was much inferior. He did not play in the super giants in mainstream leagues, so he naturally received less attention. In fact, Zhang Yang's influence expanded more about what happened after he joined the Marseille team in this season's Champions League match.

Mendes's meaning is to encourage the transfer, but this is also the truth. The influence and popularity of playing in a wealthy family are naturally much better.

In fact, except for the Golden Globe winners, other rankings are not very meaningful. It’s just that the tree is alive and the person is alive. This has brought a big blow to Zhang Yang, who has been proud of her recently.

So, Zhang Yang is a little depressed now.

And the famous "Zhangyang Hei" - Roman.

Mr. Roland jumped out again and was sarcastic about Zhang Yang.

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On December 3, in the 16th round of the Ligue 1, Marseille challenged Socho away. The final score of this game was 1:0, and Marseille won the away game.

Zhang Yang did not score a goal, and the goal for the Marseille team was Taiwo. The Nigerian scored a beautiful long-range shot, which helped the Marseille team win an important victory.

Zhang Yang was substituted at 71 minutes into the game. His performance in today's game can only be said to be average. Although it still poses a threat to Socho's goal, he has not been able to continue his goal state.

After the game, Zhang Yang walked straight to the locker room. He wasted a chance to score a goal in today's game, which made him a little depressed.

In the mixed area, he was surrounded by reporters.

"Zhang Yang! You didn't score a goal today. Is it related to the scoring ranking of the Golden Globes? Has it been affected some?" A reporter asked loudly, trying to stop Zhang Yang.

The reporter succeeded. After hearing this question, Zhang Yang, who had originally planned to walk into the locker room, stopped and looked back at him.

He is not stupid, he knows the sarcasm in the reporter's words.

The so-called "influenced by the ranking of points" is actually a sarcasm to Zhang Yang, which means that you are just like this.

Zhang Yang stopped and turned to the reporters and said, "For me, does it matter what the ranking this time are? One day, people will only remember the moment when I won the Golden Globe!"

After leaving the crazy words, he turned around and walked away. No matter how the reporters called behind him, he didn't look back and ignored him. He was too lazy to pay attention to him!

"This - this kid is too arrogant."

"Forget it, he's been arrogant for a day or two."

"The Golden Globe Award? Let's go for the next life."

"I don't know how high the sky is! "

The reporters were all furious because of Zhang Yang's words.

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The next day, Zhang Yang's words were published by the media.

"My goal is the Golden Globe! Wait!"

"Low ranking? No, what I want is the Golden Globe."

These titles are objective and tolerant, while some titles have a taste of personal attack.

"Golden Globe Award? Boy, let's go for the next life."

"Zhang Yang suffers from imaginary symptoms."

“We’ve never seen such a arrogant guy.

Now, their newspapers are selling very popular again. Anyway, in France, as long as the news is related to Zhang Yang, it will definitely be popular, not to mention such reports and comments that attract attention when you hear the title.

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After the match against Sosha, Marseille will usher in the last game of the Champions League group stage at its home court, Virrodham Stadium, with the opponent being the Serie A giants AC Milan.

In the middle of the week, going to Marseille's home court, the Virrodham Stadium, to cheer for the team and watching this great showdown on the spot became what almost all Marseille people were most looking forward to.

Of course, the Italians definitely do not agree with the statement of "great showdown". In the eyes of the Italians, Marseille and AC Milan are completely confrontations of two levels. In front of AC Milan, Marseille is not at the same level as the Ross and Blacks. How can such a game be worthy of the word "great game"?

However, the Maasai are too lazy to pay attention to the Italians’ ideas!

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"Have you bought the ticket?" In the past few days, this sentence has even replaced you, and has become a greeting for the Marseille people.

Although Marseille's home court, the Verrodham Stadium, can accommodate more than 60,000 fans, it is a drop in the bucket for the avid Marseille fans. Even 60,000 seats cannot meet the needs of Marseille fans.

The phone number of the Marseille Club ticket office was almost blown up, and they called to ask about the tickets. In fact, the person who called also knew that it was impossible to have tickets that had not been sold yet, but they still wanted to try their luck. What if someone refunded the ticket? Although this was impossible. Outside the Villodem Stadium and outside the Marseille Club training base, fans held up slogans of "seeking tickets" every day, hoping that a miracle would happen.

Marseille plays AC Milan at home. In the past fifteen years, the most powerful team has been welcomed by the Verrodham Stadium in the official matches.

In addition, Marseille defeated A Mulan, who had three Dutch musketeers, Van Basten, Gulit and Rijkaard in the final, and won the Big Ear Cup! That was the most glorious time in Marseille's history.

After that, the Marseille team fell into a long period of downturn and decline. This time, after fifteen years, when facing Milan again, the Marseille people were also looking forward to this game.

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ps: The second update.


Chapter completed!