The biggest difference between the selection of the best player in Europe and the selection of the FIFA Golden Ball Awards is not media voting, but on-site voting.

The FIFA Golden Ball Award is to collect everyone's votes in advance, then count the terms, and the top three are entering the final award ceremony. There will be no second vote on site, but only awards will be presented based on rankings. Therefore, every year, some media will announce who will win the award in advance, because the results have come out long ago. The announcement on site only creates some tension and gimmicks, which does not affect the final result.

In order to distinguish UEFA from FIFA, even the selection method is different from FIFA. Their voting is divided into two rounds. During the primary election, each media with voting rights can write down the names of the five players they thought were the best performers last season on the ballot, arrange them in order, and then select the top three to enter the finals. In the finals, vote on the spot to decide who is the winner.

This gives voters time to reconsider and adds variables to the final result.

It doesn’t mean that if you rank first in the primary election, you will definitely be able to get first.

For example, in the European Best Player Selection last year, Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo ranked first in the primary election, but the final result did Iniesta win the European Best Player Award.

The specific voting method is to have a media representative from each country of the UEFA member states formulated by the European Sports Media Union to vote, for example, the voting representative of Spain is the newspaper Marca.

UEFA has fifty-three member states, and fifty-three media representatives come to vote.

Before the voting officially began, the live screen first played a video of the performances of the three candidates in the past season. The production was very exquisite and fully demonstrated the characteristics of each player.

For example, Messi and Ribery broke through and scored goals, while Zhou Yi scored goals and assists. Of course, the scene of Zhou Yi winning the league championship and the Champions League trophy also appeared. This was his most important result last season and the main reason why he was able to stand here to compete with two other world-class stars.

Without the champion halo, no matter how good his performance is, it may not be easy for him to come here.

After the video was played, hosts, the famous BBC's BBC's famous speaker Pedro Pinto and Miss Switzerland, Melanie Winnie, invited three candidates to the stage.

Amid applause and music, Zhou Yi stood up, tied the buttons of his suit, then squeezed over Vatsk and Zork, and walked onto the stage.

His competitors Ribery and Messi also came from different directions.

The three people happened to meet under the stage, and Zhou Yi took the initiative to make a call gesture and did not rush to step onto the stage.

Messi refused, but was the first to walk up. Ribery patted Zhou Yi on the shoulder from behind, then pushed him from behind, and walked onto the stage together.

The two are opponents in the domestic league and the Champions League, but they have no conflicts off the court.

After the three of them walked onto the stage, they expanded in one word, Messi was on the far left, Ribery was on the middle, and Zhou Yi was on the far right.

Next to Zhou Yi was male host Pedro Pinto.

There is a small platform between Pinto and host Melanie Wineg, which is obviously used to place the trophy.

The trophy style of the best player in Europe is a silver jersey with arms raised, but in China, some fans have also given it a nickname called "Silver Pants".

After all the three candidates came on stage, the host invited the rotating chairman of the European Sports Media League, Mr. Hotzsch, editor-in-chief of German "Kickers" magazine, to take the stage, and he will start the on-site voting.

Hotzsch had a silver hair and smiled after he came on stage - he was happy. Last season's European football was a victory for German football. Both teams in the Champions League final were Bundesliga teams. This time, two players who played for Bundesliga teams entered the final selection. This shows the current strength of the Bundesliga.

After Hotzsch came to power, he announced that the voting began.

Next, music sounded, and every voting representative sitting in the media seat made a choice on the voting machine in front of him.

However, this option was not seen on the scene, which made everyone waiting nervous.

Especially the Chinese fans in front of the TV.

"...The on-site voting has begun. We don't know if Zhou Yi will win the final prize. Judging from the primary election data, Zhou Yi ranked first, but it is not enough to say that Zhou Yi will definitely win the prize. Last year's Cristiano Ronaldo was the first in the primary election, but he lost to Iniesta in the final..." CCTV commentator kept muttering, his chanting and content further aggravated the tension among Chinese fans.

Television broadcast footage swept across the faces of the three players one by one.

The camera lens scanned Zhou Yi, and Zhou Yi had a faint smile on his face.

It is worthy of being the one with the greatest hope of winning the award among the three...

Among these three people, Ribery was not in a very high mood. Perhaps he thought he was the one with the least hope of winning the award.

Judging from the championship last season, he was completely suppressed by Zhou Yi.

Although he also has a championship, the German Cup champion is much worse than the other two champions. Without the most important league champion and Champions League champion, Ribery doesn't think he will win the award in the end. When he thinks of this, he naturally cannot get up.

What about Messi? He was a little nervous.

The situation is somewhat subtle as to whether he can win the award.

Messi naturally hopes to win the award. In terms of strength, he is now the number one person in the world football world. I am afraid that only Cristiano Ronaldo and his fans will be dissatisfied.

In the past season, Barcelona, ​​where Messi is located, won the La Liga championship, but in the Copa del Rey, Barcelona was eliminated by Real Madrid. He lost badly in the Champions League and was beaten 0:7 by Bayern Munich at home and away, which was a shameful failure. These failures cast a layer of shadow on Messi personally.

However, in terms of personal data, Messi's performance is very impressive. Last season's La Liga scorer list, Messi became the La Liga Golden Boot with a terrifying forty-six goals. His goals scored twelve more than Cristiano Ronaldo, with one hit. Moreover, his appearances were two fewer than the Portuguese, and he scored one goal in an average of 58 minutes. This efficiency is terrifying.

He is not just a La Liga Golden Boot, but also a European Golden Boot.

Messi won the FIFA Golden Ball Awards half a year ago. It was a natural year selection. In the past 2012, Messi's personal performance was indeed excellent. He scored 91 goals in various competitions throughout the year! Such performance is unprecedented, and it is probably difficult for future visitors.

In the first half of the 2012-2013 season, he scored 26 goals in 17 rounds of the league, and less than half of the time, he set a record for the half-time La Liga goal.

It is not a problem to say that Messi was the most powerful player in Europe with the strongest attack firepower last season.

Scoring a goal is of course the most attractive scene in a football game, and it is also the greatest affirmation of an offensive player.

So Messi, whose goal data is so terrifying, even if he only won one La Liga championship, he is still a strong contender for the best player in Europe.

With such terrible data, it is also the main reason why Chinese media are not sure that Zhou Yi will win the award - do you know if the judges and reporters would praise Messi more? Over the years, both the media and the fans have almost worshipped Messi.

Messi's personal data is impressive enough, but Messi himself knows that the number of championships is still an important measure, especially the Champions League. His performance in the Champions League last season can only be said to be average. Eight goals did not help Barcelona win the championship, which is his weakness.

So Messi is very confused now. On the one hand, he hopes to win the award, but on the other hand, he feels that he doesn’t have much hope.

Of course, think about his old opponent Cristiano Ronaldo. He is actually much better. At least he can still enter the top three, while Cristiano Ronaldo has historically missed the top three. The Portuguese must be very disappointed and angry now...

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The on-site voting ended soon, and the judges didn't spend much time thinking about who to vote for, many of them may have already had choices before voting.

However, the scene did not announce who was the best player in Europe last season.

Host Pedro Pinto smiled and said, "The result has come out now, but none of us knows. Who knows? The person who engraved the trophy knows. He is engraving the best player's name on the trophy. At that time, the result will be announced with the trophy! Please wait for a while..."

He is giving everyone a vaccination.

Last year's European Player Awards, after the on-site selection, the trophy engraving process was a little longer. At that time, everyone thought it was Cristiano Ronaldo who won the championship, because compared with Messi and Iniesta, his name was the longest and composed the most letters...

The end result was Iniesta - the staff who engraved the lettering didn't move fast enough...

But this time, perhaps the lesson from last year was washed away, and the staff were quite quick. Soon, the etiquette lady in a tight white dress walked out of the passage with the silver trophy of the best European player. After putting the trophy on the table, she left on her own.

Female host Melanie Wineg invites UEFA President Mr. Platini to the stage to announce the award results and present the trophy to the winners.

Platini walked onto the stage with applause and walked to the back of the trophy. The male host reached the microphone to his mouth. Platini raised the trophy with both hands, glanced, and then turned the trophy halfway around, making the back of the trophy facing the audience and camera lens under the stage. At the same time, he said: "The person who won the best player in Europe in 2012-2013 is..."

When the trophy turned around, everyone saw the name engraved on it.

ZHOU_YI.

"Zhouyi!"
Chapter completed!