Chapter 244 Golden Globe Award Selection (2)
As the three most popular candidates for the European Golden Globe winners this year, a group of reporters who won the votes were having headaches whether they chose Batistuta or George Weather, or Klinsman, one of the former three players. After all, these players performed very well this year.
Originally, 1995 was not a year of major competitions, so players' performance in the European Champions League often became the basis for judges to vote. If you look at it this way, then Ajax deserves the NO.1 of European football this year, and the Golden Globes should also focus more on this traditional Dutch giant.
However, under the disruption of Zhuang Mingge, the time traveler, Ajax was disbanded a year early, resulting in many of their players' performance in the second half of the year being very unsatisfactory. Only Cruivet and Davis were the ones who reached the expected level of fans, and Seidorf, who played for Sampdoria, but their performance in their respective clubs was not very outstanding. Cruivet's light was completely covered by his teammate Wei's. Davis is still sharing opportunities with Kripa and others, and Sampdoria, who plays for Sampdorf, has not even entered the top four in Serie A... This has completely cut off the Ajax players by the judges from this year's Golden Globe winners.
In this way, Fiorentina, as a newly promoted team, won the double championship in the Serie A and European Cup Winners, entered the judges' vision. After all, such outstanding results cannot be ignored by any reporters. Therefore, as the captain of Purple Lily and the best scorer of Serie A last season, Batistuta became one of the popular candidates for the Golden Ball Awards.
As for Klinsmann and George Wea, these two players have no outstanding titles this year. The reason why they can become popular is more due to their outstanding performance in various competitions. The "Golden Bomber" first scored 21 league goals in the Premier League, and then returned to the domestic league team leader Bayern Munich. He also scored consecutive goals in the Bundesliga this season. Such excellent performance naturally made Klinsmann one of the popular ones.
The reason for Wei's selection is basically similar to that of Klinsmann, but there is one thing that Liberians have to beat Klinsmann, that is, Wei's hands also have a golden boot from the European Championship last season, and Batistuta is also the Serie A golden boot from last season. Klinsmann, who has no honor for the Golden Boot, is inevitably at a disadvantage in the competition between several shooters.
In addition, as the only European player among the three candidates, Klinsmann was recognized by many discerning people in the football circle to miss the European Golden Globe Awards this year. The reason is very simple. This year's European Golden Globe Awards have expanded its selection scope for the first time, from simply only European players who can run for the election to any player who plays in Europe is eligible to be shortlisted for the Golden Globe Awards.
In this way, the new Golden Globe winners will have to be awarded to non-European players as compensation for their seniors who missed the Golden Globe Awards due to their nationality.
Therefore, in this sense, choosing George Weather is not more meaningful in that he really performs better on the court than other stars, but as the first "expanded" of the European Golden Globe Awards, the organizer "French Football" magazine naturally wants to show his importance to non-European countries. If Africa, a region behind football, has produced a European Golden Globe Award winner this year, then the influence of the European Golden Globe Awards will naturally spread to the world due to this result.
Therefore, as one of the representatives of African football in Europe, George Wea, who had performed well for the whole year, has naturally become the best choice.
Although Batistuta also has this significance, if he is elected from a traditional football power, he will still be inferior in influence. After all, it is not too strange for Argentines or Brazilians to receive such honors.
Therefore, although Bati seems to have a more advantage from a purely competitive perspective, it is not ruled out that Wei's possibility of coming from behind.
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Some people may ask, since Zhuang Mingge is so concerned about the selection of the European Golden Ball Awards, why didn’t the World Footballer Mr. World launched by FIFA see him caring?
Sorry, what is that? Zhuang Mingge said that he really doesn't like the unreliable thing selected by FIFA, so he naturally doesn't have any interest in caring...
After all, the selection of World Football Master was generated through the votes of head coaches and captains of national teams around the world. The biggest loophole is that the level of voters is uneven. Voters in many small football countries lack the ability to grasp the dynamics of football, and the selection often emphasizes fame rather than strength, which made many stars who performed very well back then return because of their inferior fame. Moreover, during the selection process, the candidate players launched by head coaches of many national teams are often laughable and irritating.
For example, in 1993, Chinese player Gong Lei was nominated for the World Footballer of that year. The person who recommended him was the head coach of the French Tahiti national team. The reason for nominating Gong Lei was quite simple, that is, Gong Lei won the best scorer in the French Tahiti League with 36 goals that season. Therefore, the head coach of the country believed that Gong Lei was the best player in the world, and it turned out to be a big joke.
Moreover, the lag of information is also clearly seen in the selection of World Footballers. The winner of the European Golden Ball Award in 1991 was French marksman Papan. At that time, he led the team to complete the three consecutive Ligue 1 championships and reached the Champions League final that year. He himself completed the four consecutive Ligue 1 Golden Boots, and the Champions League Golden Boots became his favorite for three consecutive years... Such a result made him deserve the European Golden Ball Award with an absolute advantage.
However, in the selection of World Footballer, the final winner was German Matteus. There was nothing else. It was just because of his outstanding performance in the Italian World Cup the previous year that many coaches in remote areas still believed that Matteus was still the best player in the world in 1991, which led to Papan's tragedy...
You know, Mattus in the second half of 1991 experienced a serious injury and missed the game for several months. His performance after his comeback was also very average, and he was completely incomparable to Papan at that time!
Moreover, there are 50 players on the shortlist of the European Golden Ball Awards, and there are only five players in the shortlist of the World Football Master. This has always been ruthlessly criticized by Zhuang Mingge: Are there only five players in the world's football world good performance? The choices given by these FIFA officials are too few, right?!
Chapter completed!