After the group draw ceremony, the award ceremony will be held, and the best player of the European club from last season will be presented.

The award was established last year with the intention of restoring the selection of the former European Golden Globes and competing with the FIFA Golden Globes. This is an initiative by UEFA President Platini after the European Golden Globes were incorporated by FIFA.

The European Club Best Player Award is conducted by reporters from 53 European countries in the first round of voting, selecting the top three players, shortlisting to the last round of voting, and then live instant voting at the award ceremony to select the best player.

This award is not limited to nationality. As long as the player plays in clubs under UEFA member states, the player's performance in domestic, international, club and national team competitions will be considered.

During the first European Club Best Player Selection last year, Zhou Yi was the only Chinese player to be selected for the shortlist. He eventually ranked 27th in this selection, which is far from the top three.

And this time, he is no longer the only Chinese player selected, and Atletico Madrid goalkeeper Sun Pan is among them for his outstanding performance in La Liga and Europa League.

But this time they still had nothing to do with them.

Zhou Yi didn't even have to go to the scene because he didn't make it to the final three-person final list. Although he performed very well in Dortmund, he still lacked some persuasion compared to those three people who made it to the final list.

The final list of the three players are Barcelona's Iniesta and Messi, and Cristiano Ronaldo who plays for Real Madrid.

These three are the three best players in football today, and there is no doubt and no controversy about this.

Zhou Yi still has a long way to go if he wants to become one of the three best stars in the world. Of course, he is still young...

Although Chelsea won the Champions League last season, no player in Chelsea made it to the three-man roster in this selection. Because this is not the selection of its own Champions League players, but the best player in all competitions throughout the season.

Although Barcelona was eliminated by Dortmund and Real Madrid was eliminated by Bayern Munich, the brilliance of Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo was too dazzling, and it was normal to be selected for the final list.

Iniesta is also favored by journalists for his irreplaceable importance in Barcelona.

Before the final results were announced, the three candidates were invited to the stage one after another, and the host conducted a brief interview with Iniesta, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

When asked the Portuguese, the host asked a question, which made the scene burst into laughter. She asked: "Cristiano, what do you think of the results of Real Madrid's grouping in the Champions League this season?"

This question is usually done after the lottery award ceremony is over, and the reporters come to ask the players below. Unexpectedly, the host directly played a guest role in the reporter and asked this question in front of everyone.

Obviously, everyone is interested in this one of the most terrifying death groups ever.

Amid everyone's laughter, the Portuguese shook his head and smiled helplessly. Then he shrugged and said, "This group is really difficult to play, and every opponent is very strong. However, as the La Liga champion last season, we have the confidence and ability to face any challenge from strong enemies."

This answer suddenly sounds like a normal one, but after careful consideration, it reveals the Portuguese's ambition and confidence. Because he used the word "challenge", who will generally be challenged? Of course, the strongest and the highest status will face challenges. In other words, in his opinion, Real Madrid in this group has the strongest strength.

Today, this beautiful host seemed to deliberately make bad things. After asking Cristiano Ronaldo, she turned the microphone to Messi next to the Portuguese, but the question she asked Messi had nothing to do with Barcelona, ​​but it was related to Real Madrid. She asked: "Then Leo, as a Barcelona player, how did you see Real Madrid being assigned to the death group?"

Beauty always has privileges. If a middle-aged man with obese slant head asked about such a question, he would have been rejected by Messi with silence. But when the beautiful female host threw out the question with a cunning smile on her face, Messi was embarrassed to refuse.

After everyone's laughter ended, he replied with a smile: "Everything can happen in the Death Group. I think strength and luck are equally important in this level of competition."

This answer is obviously a bit unanswered, but it is actually a manifestation of not wanting to answer this question positively.

The beautiful host knew that she would stop when she saw it, so she did not continue to ask.

He bypassed the two people and ended the interview.

Finally, there was a live voting and the winning players were announced.

Standing on the stage, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, who looked like the protagonist, were unable to win this award. The final winner was Iniesta, who was low-key next to him.

This result seems to also show that the award for European club best player is more professional than the FIFA Golden Ball Award.

When Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo monopolized the FIFA Golden Ball Awards and his predecessor, World Footballer, many people called Qu for Xavi, Iniesta, Sneider and others. Experts believe that the importance of these players is no less than that of Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, but the latter two are more dominant in the voting because I am more famous around the world.

For example, the World Footballer in 2010 was finally awarded to Messi, but the result was controversial.

The 2010 FIFA Best Player Selection was the first after the merger of the World Footballer and the European Golden Ball Awards. The votes were divided into three stocks: the national team head coach, the national team captain and the media reporter each had one-third of the voting rights, which led to the more professional media votes being just a minority, so Messi, who was more famous in the end, won the FIFA Golden Ball Award after the merger that year, that is, the World Footballer.

Messi was in the 2010 national team of Barcelona and Argentina. In the eyes of many professionals, he was basically a so-called player of the year. Xavi, the double midfielder of the Spanish national team and Barcelona, ​​and Sneider, the double midfielder of the Dutch national team and Inter Milan, are more qualified to win the FIFA Golden Ball Award than him.

Xavi led the Spanish national team to win the South African World Cup championship in a historic manner, while Sneijder not only led the Dutch national team to the World Cup final for the third time in history, but also led Inter Milan to complete the great achievements of the Serie A, Italian Cup and Champions League triple-champion.

As a result, Messi, who had no convincing performance in the end, won the Golden Globe Award for his greater fame.

This result attracted many protests, and it also led to the idea that Platini would restart the European Golden Ball Awards selection. Since the name "Golden Ball Award" already belongs to FIFA, UEFA renamed the "European Club Best Player Award". The trophy cannot continue to adopt the classic golden football shape, but becomes a jersey shape with arms raised.

2011 was the first, and Messi was elected with a high vote of 39 votes. Barcelona won the Champions League in the 2010-2011 season. Messi was the best scorer. This performance was much more convincing than a year ago. In this election, there was another episode. That is, Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo, who has always been confident but is too high-profile and not very likable, only won the pitiful three votes in the final on-site vote. When this vote was exposed, it immediately attracted the ridicule of many people who hate him. In China, the Portuguese star even won a nickname called "Roman Three Votes"... It was also miserable.

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After the award ceremony, the final top ten rankings of the European Club Best Player Awards announced by the media soon appeared on the Internet.

What many Chinese fans and Chinese journalists did not expect was that they saw the familiar name Zhou Yi among the top ten.

Yes, compared with ranking 27th a year ago, Zhou Yi made rapid progress this year, just like being a Rockets, and is a player who has made great progress in European football. His final ranking is exactly tenth.

Before him, Falcao was the ninth place, Cech was the eighth place, Drogba was the seventh place, Casillas was the sixth place, Xavi was the fifth place, Pirlo was the fourth place, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo tied for second place, and Iniesta, who was finally elected the best player.

This list of ten people was selected by the most authoritative media reporters in Europe. In other words, these ten people are the ten most authoritative and recognized as the strongest people in the world football world.

And Zhou Yi is one of the ten strongest people!

This really surprised Chinese fans and reporters. They knew that Zhou Yi was very powerful, but there were always people who were worried that this was because everyone was Chinese, so their evaluation of Zhou Yi would be a bit emotionally added. But now it seems... Europeans' evaluation of Zhou Yi is actually higher than many Chinese people imagine! (~^~)

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Chapter completed!