Chapter 085(1/2)
Two days later, Manchester City was tied by Blackburn 1-1 away in the league.
Zhang Yang did not score a goal, perhaps because of fatigue, the Chinese striker's performance in this game was relatively quiet, and Ireland scored for Manchester City.
In this round of the league, Aston Villa won Hull City 1-0 away.
In this way, Aston Villa surpassed Manchester City in the league standings, ranking fourth in the league, Manchester City ranked fifth in the league, and Arsenal followed closely behind.
On this day, the English Football Association also selected the best team in the 2008/2009 Premier League season.
In the selection of the best goalkeeper in the half-time, Chelsea's Czech goalkeeper Cech received the most praises. After the previous two seasons, Van der Sar conceded the least goals in the league. The old Dutch goalkeeper only conceded 10 goals in the half-time league in 2006/2007. Last season, in the 2007/2008 season, Van der Sar conceded only 9 goals in the half-time season. This half-time season,
Chelsea conceded fewer goals, and they only conceded 8 goals. It should be emphasized that Cech's total saves reached 81, which is more than Van der Sar's 70 and Reina's 77. Among the goalkeepers in BIG4, only Amunia's saves were more than 91 times than the Czech goalkeeper. The Blues can temporarily be ranked second in the league with the wounded camp, and Cech's ability to get out of the shadow of the European Cup is particularly critical.
In the best defender lineup, Portugal international Bosinva was elected as the right back position.
Here, it has to be said that the English media gave countless praises to the Portuguese international. In fact, no one expected that he could integrate into the Premier League in such a short time. Bosingwa's acquisition was not finalized by Scolari, but since Big Phil and Bosingwa have worked together for a long time in the Portuguese national team, Bosingwa was able to quickly gain a foothold. In the comprehensive score of "Sky Sports", Bosingwa's 7 points were stronger than last season's best right-back Sarnia's 6.8 points.
As for the selection of Manchester United veteran Ferdinand, there is almost no suspense. Whether in the England national team or Manchester United, Ferdinand's performance is still stable. In this season when Manchester United needs to compete for 7 championships, Ferdinand's appearance rate is really amazing. So far, he ranks first in the team with 2,160 minutes of playing time. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is Manchester United's defense line.
As for Serbian international Vidic, the media also praised a lot. As Ferdinand's central defender partner, Vidic also occupies a place in the best team of the year just released by the Team News. The central defender combination of "Vidic + Ferdinand" has now been described by Ferguson as another golden partner after "Bruce + Pallister".
It is necessary to say here that Manchester City's Belgian central defender Kompany's overall score is also good, but Manchester City's overall defensive performance is not as good as Manchester United, which also caused Kompany's score to be "involved" and eventually missed the selection of the best team in the half.
In addition, in the left-back position, the election of Chelsea left-back Ashley Cole is also quite controversial: Kele's performance is not too outstanding, and his condition is even slightly lower than in previous seasons. Manchester City's Argentine international Zabaleta's performance in the left-back is quite eye-catching, but because his fame is far inferior to Ashley Cole, he still has not been selected into the best team.
In the midfield: Ashley Young, Gareth Barry, Gerald, and Cristiano Ronaldo were selected for the All-A half-time team.
What we have to mention here is England international Gareth Barry, the England international is considered an inspirational model. In Aston Villa's first game of the season, Aston Villa was massacred by Zhang Yang, and Gareth Barry's poor performance also attracted a lot of criticism. However, at that time, Liverpool coach Benitez also took the opportunity to launch an action to acquire Gareth Barry from Aston Villa, and even the media persuaded Astron Villa.
Dunvilla took advantage of Barry's valuable time to sell him and make a big profit. However, at this time, Aston Villa coach O'Neal spoke, 'Garres is not a seller. If Liverpool wants to buy it, unless Gerald is exchanged for it'. As soon as this statement was made, public opinion was in an uproar, and Liverpool fans were also angry. O'Neal should not blame him for being delusional. Some media also asserted that if Gares Barry is not sold, O'Neal will definitely regret it.
Now, after half a season, aston Villa, who ranked fourth in the league, was waiting to see O'Neal's jokes, and began to sing praises to O'Neal and Gareth Barry. They made such a highlight comment, 'Now, we can obviously understand why Benitez is obsessed with Captain Villa this summer, and Capello would rather break up the double Germans on some occasions and put Barry in the starting lineup.
It can be explained. O'Neal's team can beat the Gunners and the Blue Moon in the top four when the schedule is over halfway through, and Barry's role in the Commander Tower should not be underestimated.' In an interview, Galas Barry even said that the long game that was massacred by Manchester City in the first round of the season has made him mature a lot, and he looks forward to encountering Manchester City again. Uh, I don't know whether Captain Aston Villa's words are considered a post on Zhang Yang.
There is no doubt that Gerald was selected as the best player in the half-time. In the first half of the season when Torres was constantly injured, Jedra took on the heavy burden of offense. As a Chinese Super League player, the captain of the Red Army ranked first in the team's scorer list, and if Gerald scored in the league, the Red Army remained unbeaten. In addition, the main reason why the Red Army was able to win the half-time champion was that Gerald scored continuously in the Champions League helped the team qualify smoothly. The media is even optimistic about the future of the Red Army in the second half of the season. After Torres recovered his state after recovering his injury, the Red Army captain Gerald and Torres combined with two swords, and the performance of the Red Army is expected to reach a new level.
After the 2008/2009 Premier League halftime, who is the most popular rogue? I'm afraid that before the start of the season, no one would have thought that it would be the name Ashley Young. After the halftime, Ashley Young, who plays on the wing, has scored 5 league goals, and only Cristiano Ronaldo is ahead of him. In the goal match, Aston Villa maintained a complete victory. Aston Villa can beat Manchester City and Arsenal, ranking fourth in the league, Gareth Barry and Ashley Young have made great contributions. The outstanding performance of this new England international has even attracted the attention of Real Madrid. According to the news from Marca, the Galaxy Battleship has offered a price of 27 million pounds and asked Aston Villa for Ashley Young.
It is no surprise that Cristiano Ronaldo was selected for the best midfielder. After giving a lot of praise to the new European Golden Ball winner, Sky Sports used this footnote: 'Although Liverpool is the leader now, it is certain that as long as Cristiano Ronaldo remains healthy, Manchester United will complete the league defense.'
Among the best strikers, one of them is Chelsea's French scorer Anelka. In the first half of the season when Drogba was constantly injured, Anelka, who played as a center, maintained full attendance in the league, and his scoring rate of 14 goals in 19 games has hit a career high. You should know that Anelka's highest goal record in a single season was 10 years ago. In the 98/99 season, he scored 17 goals in 35 league appearances for the Gunners. Among these fourteen goals, twelve league goals were scored.
Well, Anelka, who scored 12 goals in the half-time league, was selected into the best team. Then, Zhang Yang's selection, who scored 20 goals in the league, is no surprise. Zhang Yang's twenty goals helped Manchester City now rank fifth in the Premier League standings, only two points behind fourth place Aston Villa. Considering that Aston Villa is O'Neal's team that has been built for many years, and Manchester City is a team that has been recruited this summer. Manchester City can rank fifth in the league and maintain its ambition to be fourth in the league. Zhang Yang's goals are of great significance!
At present, in the league scorer list, Zhang Yang's twenty goals are leading the way, and behind him is Anelka, who scored 12 goals. And later, the number of goals scored by the goalkeeper has not even reached double digits. The Guardian said that even if Zhang Yang's current number of goals can win the Premier League Golden Boot, this is not an exaggeration.
Premier League All-Series (4-4-2): Cech/Bozenwa, Ferdinand, Vidic, Ashley Cole/Cristiano Ronaldo, Gerald, Gareth Barry, Ashley Young/Anelka, Zhang Yang;
Among them, if we talk about the player's personal comprehensive score, Zhang Yang has the highest average score. He averaged 8:7 points per game, surpassing all the heroes. Behind him is Cristiano Ronaldo who averaged 7:9 points per game!
Some fans of Zhang Yang also said with great relief that it can be seen from this that Zhang Yang is better than Cristiano Ronaldo, and the European Golden Ball Award should be Zhang Yang.
They also waved the flag for Zhang Yang, hoping that in the 2008 World Footballer selection, Zhang Yang could defeat Cristiano Ronaldo and win the award.
On Friday, Zhang Yang went to London and received the Crystal Trophy, which was a half-time best striker from a reporter's representative.
When asked to say some awards, Zhang Yang said that if possible, he would be more willing to exchange personal awards and honors for Manchester City's good results. He hopes that Manchester City can successfully enter the Champions League next season at the end of the season!
If it was the beginning of the season, even a superstar like Zhang Yang would be treated the same as Manchester City club chairman Alfaim if he said this, he would inevitably be treated like Manchester City club chairman Alfaim!
However, at this moment, when Zhang Yang said this, no one dared to ridicule him and Manchester City. At least he did not dare to ridicule him on the surface, and was just waiting for the opportunity to take the lead.
Why? Zhang Yang and the team's performance has won people's initial respect, or it is more straightforward, which makes those skeptical people shut up and leave them with nothing to say for the time being!
Zhang Yang said that he was willing to exchange personal honor for team honor, not to mention whether this person was talking about the scene, but the media had to admit that Zhang Yang is much more mature than before, and he is becoming more and more like a team's flagship star!
Now, everyone's eyes are on FIFA headquarters, where the award ceremony will be announced who will be the winner of the 2008 World Footballer!
The selection of FIFA's World Footballer is different from that of the European Golden Globes. The results of the Golden Globes were announced in advance, which is no secret. Before the 2008 European Golden Globes ceremony, Zhang Yang did not receive a call from "French Football". At that time, he knew that he had not won the award.
However, this is not the case with the selection of World Football Masters. They will not inform the winners of the award in advance until the award ceremony announces the results, including the winners, all people will know who is the World Football Masters of this year.
The World Annual Awards Ceremony, founded in 1991, has entered its 18th year. This year, FIFA has made fine-tuning the annual awards ceremony. First, the awards ceremony was moved from December to January of the following year to avoid competing with the Golden Ball Awards, and for the first time, the final selection of Mr. and Miss World Football was included in the list of five candidates. Finally, Zhang Yang, Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, Kaca and Torres were fortunate to enter the final stage of the competition.
After the announcement of this five-man roster, it once caused people's doubts. The biggest reason was Xavi's defeat. As the European champion's midfielder, he lost to the top five of the World Football Team, which made Spanish fans quite puzzled.
After analyzing the names of the current top five, World Sports Daily believed that Kaka had pushed Xavi down, and they once again questioned the selection rules of World Football Master.
Mr. FIFA was voted by the coaches and captains of FIFA member states. Some small countries with backward economies do not even broadcast the top European leagues. Their choice can only be based on fame rather than the players' performance and honors over the past year. Under this premise, Kaka, who is more famous and idol-like, is obviously more popular than Xavi.
Compared with FIFA, the professionalism of French Football and UEFA awards is obviously much higher. The Golden Globe Awards were voted by the top sports journalists in Europe. Their understanding of football is obviously much higher than that of national team captains such as Tanzania and Zambia. In this year's Golden Globe Awards, Kaka only scored 31 points and ranked 8th, while Xavi scored 97 points, which is more than three times that of Kaka.
Of course, Harvey did not appear in the final five-man list. This is just an episode. People are more concerned about who can win the World Footballer Award.
Now, the media generally believes that the final winner will be the competition between Cristiano Ronaldo and Zhang Yang. Given that Cristiano Ronaldo has won the European Golden Ball Award, many media are more optimistic about the Portuguese star winning the award.
However, this does not mean that Zhang Yang has no chance. Sometimes the speculations from the outside world are unreliable, because the understanding of professional sports media reporters is completely different from that of the head coach of the national team and the captains.
For example, in 2006, the media had a speculation that Cannavaro won the European Golden Ball Award, and the World Footballer belonged to Ronaldinho. After all, the Brazilian helped Barcelona win the La Liga and Champions League championship that season. In terms of performance in a season, Cannavaro must be defeated.
However, the final result was that Cannavaro also won the World Footballer Award, which made a new peak for the defender.
With such a lesson, who can say that he predicted the final result of World Football Master?
Although Cristiano won the Premier League and Champions League championship, and personally won the Premier League Golden Boot, Zhang Yang also won the Serie A championship and broke the goal record in both the Serie A and the Champions League! He won the European Golden Boot! In terms of team honors, although Zhang Yang is more like Zhang Yang, when it comes to personal performance, Zhang Yang is much better than Cristiano Ronaldo! It was considered a draw!
The only thing that puts Zhang Yang at a disadvantage is that at the national level, although Cristiano Ronaldo ended in the quarterfinals of the European Cup with the Portuguese national team, this is still much better than Zhang Yang, because Zhang Yang is still excluded from the national team's door until now, which has become a strange scene in today's football world!
In addition, fans and media who support Zhang Yang to win the award also gave examples, but they lost the star selected by the World Footballer. In the 2005 World Footballer selection, although Liverpool's captain Gerrard led the team to complete a shocking reversal in the Champions League final. When he was behind three goals, he equalized the score with three goals in ten minutes. Finally, he defeated AC Milan by penalty shootout and won the European Championship. Gerrard's performance in the final was perfect. But even so, he did not even enter the final three candidate list... let alone become World Footballer, but that year he did not win the Golden Baller like Cristiano Ronaldo this year.
In order to fight against the powerful UEFA, FIFA can also rack his brains. UEFA has a Champions League brand, and FIFA has to use greater strength and more resources to build a World Cup brand. French Football magazine began to vote for European football reporters 50 years ago, while FIFA only thought of inviting head coaches of national teams from various countries to vote for a World Football Master in the 1990s. In order to prove that it is not blindly imitating European football, FIFA has to work hard to find players different from the Golden Ball winners to compete with each other at the end of each year. This has also been used as evidence by many people. They believe that this is also a reason why Zhang Yang will win the World Football Master Award.
Well, I believe this reason is definitely not something Zhang Yang likes to hear.
Of course, there are also different opinions. They also have their reasons, that is, the selection of World Footballers is far less rigorous than the European Golden Ball Awards. FIFA World Footballers’ voting rights are in the hands of head coaches and captains of various national teams. How well do you expect the head coaches and captains of countries such as Pacific island countries to be familiar with some changes in football? Their criteria for choosing is completely whether the candidate’s name is familiar. If it is familiar, it means that he is powerful. If it is not familiar, it is not powerful.
Cristiano Ronaldo became famous earlier than Zhang Yang, this is the advantage!
Indeed, compared with Cristiano Ronaldo who debuted earlier and became famous earlier, Zhang Yang's reputation worldwide is obviously lower. Yes, he is the European Golden Boot in the last two seasons. Yes, he is a 75 million pounds gentleman, but Zhang Yang's reputation is indeed not as good as Cristiano Ronaldo. In addition, there is another point that when the head coaches and captains of some national teams only look at the reputation and players' clubs when voting. They see that Cristiano Ronaldo belongs to Manchester United and Zhang Yang belongs to Manchester City, and they will subconsciously have a preconceived choice.
Of course, it is not ruled out that Zhang Yang's influence has increased dramatically in the past two years, and has reached a point that it can attract the attention of head coaches and captains of some small countries.
As long as the World Footballer Award is not announced last, nothing is possible.
This is also the reason why the World Footballer is more suspenseful than the European Golden Globe Awards.
CCTV Sports Channel chose to broadcast the FIFA awards ceremony live, and they also shouted a gimmick, "It is possible to witness a Chinese player becoming a world footballer." Although Zhang Yang may also lose the election, in itself, Zhang Yang was able to enter the bayonet competition with Cristiano Ronaldo, which itself shows Zhang Yang's strength!
Of course, before the results were announced, they still attracted the appetite of Chinese fans. That night, many Chinese fans were waiting in front of the TV, waiting for the results to be announced.
The English media do not care who will win the World Footballer in the end, because both Zhang Yang and Cristiano Ronaldo are from the Premier League, which makes them very proud because they have always advocated that the view that "the Premier League is the No. 1 European League" has the most favorable evidence! The two best players in today's football are in the Premier League, can't this tell the status of the Premier League?
The camera gave Zhang Yang at the award ceremony, and the expression on Zhang Yang's face was very calm.
Is he nervous now?
To say that it is not nervous, it is fake. Of course, Zhang Yang hopes that he can win the World Football Master, but Zhang Yang also knows that Cristiano Ronaldo is a strong rival. In addition, Zhang Yang also understands in his heart that the trophy of the UEFA Champions League is his biggest weakness and regret! Even if he fails to win the award in the end, then he will not be too sad. He has always had a dream in his heart, that is, to sweep Europe, win the Champions League trophy, win the league trophy, win all the trophys that can be won, sweep everything! With an indisputable situation, he won the European Golden Ball Award and the World Football Master!
Especially when his opponent is Cristiano Ronaldo, Zhang Yang wants to make Cristiano Ronaldo convinced!
The first award was the Fair Competition Award. The Chairman of the African Football Association awarded this award to the Turkish Football Association, which repeatedly made reversals in the European Cup this summer, and the Armenian Football Association, a small European football country. Secondly, the Chairman's Special Award was awarded, and the award was awarded to the US women's national team. The active American women's football player Aureli also received this heavyweight award as a representative of the US women's football team!
The award for Miss World Football was also the first prize for tonight's award ceremony. In the women's football match of the Olympics held in Beijing in 2008, the Brazilian team once again hated the opportunity to miss the world championship on the battlefield and lost to the United States team to finish second. Although Mata, the absolute core of the Samba Legion, although she failed to lead the Brazil team to win the women's football championship this summer, she still defeated her teammate Christiani with her superb ball skills, Prinz, the German women's football goalkeeper, Angell and England women's football core Smith. She was elected Miss World again after 2006 and 2007, and also achieved Miss World's three consecutive championships. German "football emperor" Beckenbauer once again presented the award to Mata after last year.
Immediately afterwards, the World Footballer Award was finally released, and the heavyweight award that all fans around the world have been looking forward to was immediately announced. After a story about the award presenter Bailey, Bailey read out the winner's name:
Cristiano Ronaldo!
At this time, there was a burst of exclamation at the scene, followed by warm applause. Those who supported Zhang Yang's awards also gave Cristiano Ronaldo applause after being lost. After all, Cristiano Ronaldo's performance was also very good. He won the award, and people were prepared for it.
At this time, the camera immediately gave Zhang Yang and Cristiano Ronaldo's face close-up.
Zhang Yang's expression was calm. Cristiano Ronaldo had an ecstatic expression. Cristiano Ronaldo was under greater pressure than Zhang Yang. As for the same sentence, he is the Champions League champion. If he could not defeat Zhang Yang in this way, it would be a huge blow to Cristiano Ronaldo.
As for Zhang Yang, he was prepared in his heart. It would be a lie to say something that was not depressed in his heart. However, Zhang Yang was not too depressed. He knew that even if he was lucky enough to win the award, it would cause a lot of controversy. Instead of doing this, it would be better for me to be open and irresistible in the future! Of course, this is also to comfort myself.
Zhang Yang took the initiative to extend his hand to Cristiano Ronaldo and congratulated his friends.
"Congratulations, Cristiano." Zhang Yang said.
"Thank you." Cristiano Ronaldo smiled, and he winked, "Zhang, I've beat you again."
Zhang Yang laughed, and he said without hesitation, "Cristiano, I promise, this is the last time you have won me!"
Cristiano Ronaldo and Zhang Yang are good friends. It is precisely because they are good friends that these two proud guys do not need to say hypocritical words when facing each other. They are tense in their words. No one is willing to lose to each other.
Immediately, the top five players scored on the big screen on the scene.
Kaka: 101 points;
Torres: 151 points;
Messi: 369 points;
Zhang Yang: 829 points;
Cristiano Ronaldo: 830 points!
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To be continued...