Chapter 25 Shocking Words

On Wednesday morning, Dong Fangzhuo arrived in Turin, Italy. He accompanied Martial and others to attend the European Golden Boy Award ceremony.

Although Manchester United's start to the season was not very satisfactory, Manchester United's young talents are still favored by Europe.

Martial, Rashford, Luke Shaw and Januzaj have all entered the final candidate list.

They still have the best chance of winning the prize.

Ferguson originally led the team to participate, but due to poor health, the important task fell on Dong Fangzhuo. In fact, Dong Fangzhuo's identity is not suitable. Maybe he appears in another identity...

Italy's "Torino Sport" announced the selection results of the 2015 European Golden Boy Award. Manchester United's rising star Martial stood out and was elected as this year's European Golden Boy Award. This allows him to compete with Dong Fangzhuo, Messi, Rooney, Aguero, Stars like Cesc Fabregas and Pogba.

The European Golden Boy Award was created by Tuttosport in 2003. This award is awarded to the player under the age of 21 who plays for a European club and has the best performance in the past year. The Golden Boy Award can be called the "Golden Ball Award for Under-21s". An expert jury composed of 30 journalists from media in 20 European countries, such as "France Football", "L'Equipe", "The Times", "Marca" Authoritative media such as "Newspaper", "World Sports News" and "Bild" are all judges. Players who have previously won the award include Dong Fangzhuo, Rooney, Messi, Cesc Fabregas, Aguero, Pato, Balotelli, Gotze, Isco, Sterling and other players. Most of these players will be very successful in their future careers, and the authority of this award cannot be doubted.

Judging from Martial's development potential and current status at Manchester United, it is not surprising that he was selected for the 2015 European Golden Boy Award. This summer, Martial joined Manchester United for a fixed transfer fee of 36 million pounds. If the floating transfer fee is included, his transfer fee reached 58 million pounds (approximately 80 million euros). Not only does he have excellent speed and sharp breakthroughs, but he is also very strong in heading and coping abilities. Many experts and media are optimistic that Martial will become Manchester United's new Ronaldo. But Martial was injured just after playing one game for Manchester United and did not return until recently.

In this selection, Martial defeated many opponents, including Manchester United teammates Rashford, Luke Shaw and Januzaj, as well as Bayern Munich's Kingsley Coman, Real Madrid's Arsenal Theo, Bellerin of Arsenal and Munir of Barcelona are among the rising stars.

Martial also became the fourth player in Manchester United's history to win the European Golden Boy Award. The previous three were Rooney, Dong Fangzhuo and Anderson.

As expected, Dong Fangzhuo appeared on the podium as an award guest and personally presented the award to Martial.

After Martial delivered his speech, Dong Fangzhuo also delivered a brief speech.

"I am very happy that another Manchester United player has won the European Golden Boy Award. This is already the fourth player from Manchester United to win the award."

"Manchester United has a tradition of winning this award."

The audience burst into laughter.

"Manchester United have dominated football when it comes to this award."

This is not Dong Fangzhuo's bragging. In a total of 15 years, Manchester United players have won four, and it seems that Rashford will also hope to win the award next year...

Then Dong Fangzhuo talked about world football.

"There are fewer talented new people coming out."

"Players with technical characteristics have not emerged, and each team's style of play has become more and more unified and similar. Football matches pay more attention to the overall situation."

"I can even imagine the World Cup in three years. When our generation of players gets older, the football world will look different."

"The whole game was about controlling the ball, controlling the ball, cooperating and cooperating, but no one stood up to solve the problem and complete the goal."

"The gap between the national teams will shrink quickly, and you will no longer see which team is guaranteed to win. Because there is no special characteristic."

"why?"

"Just because there are fewer and fewer players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi in international football, the characteristics of the players have been assimilated to be very similar. They don't know how to break through, surpass others, and even creative passing is gone."

This is truly astonishing.

Although Dong Fangzhuo did not experience the 2018 World Cup, he made a bold prediction...

The audience was in an uproar, thinking about what Dong Fangzhuo meant by what he said.

Many people began to nod, because what Dong Fangzhuo said was not unreasonable. On the contrary, the more I think about it, the more correct it becomes.

How many distinctive young people are there in international football today? There are some in terms of character, but at the competitive level, there are very few outstanding young people.

"These young people in the audience are basically the best young people now."

"I hope that more and more young people will emerge in the future and bring us greater surprises."

"I hope to see more and more Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi, more and more Dong Fangzhuo, Hazard, Neymar, etc. in the future. They can continue to carry the spirit of football..."

"They say football is developing, but I think football is going backwards."

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After the awards night, all major European mainstream media published Dong Fangzhuo's speech, sparking a heated discussion in Europe.

Everyone is not sure whether Dong Fangzhuo's prediction is true?

German "Bild" - Wang Dong made a shocking statement at the Golden Boy Awards evening party. He believed that world football is becoming more and more boring. Football is not progressing, but has been regressing.

The Times - Football is moving away from superstars in an era. According to Wang Dong's understanding, the talents in world football are beginning to wither, and it is difficult for outstanding players to emerge anymore.

It is Brazil that feels the deepest about Dong Fangzhuo's remarks.

"Global Sports" was very emotional - Wang Dong's remarks are very well-founded. You can think about the number 9 of our national team. It has been many years since there has been a super number 9. Adriano was the last one. But before that? We can't even ask for that many Super 9s. Brazil’s football talent is also missing.

"Gazzetta dello Sport" - Many years ago, Italy was known as the Little World Cup, and there were many talents in Italy. But what about Italy today? What Wang Dong said is not wrong at all, football is indeed going backwards...

"Ole" - We are always proud of Argentina's forward line, but in fact we have nothing left in the midfield and backfield, not even a Riquelme or Veron can be found. Monotonous play style, no creativity, boring game process and results...