Chapter 357 No Prizes if You Don’t Show Up

"Manchester United won the away game in pursuit of victory, winning Charlton 3:1," the "Manchester Evening News" immediately reported the match between Charlton and Manchester United.

"The teenagers of Manchester United won again. With the goals of Rooney, Ronaldo and Smith, Manchester United defeated Charlton 3:1. Although the new Manchester United captain did not score, he smashed Charlton's defense in the game. It was fragmented and created opportunities for teammates to score goals, and his own number of league goals has temporarily stopped at 10. In the league scorer list, Henry is already 3 goals ahead of him."

"But for the Manchester United captain, ten goals is quite good. Even Henry has to look at him differently. He struggled to catch up for a long time before surpassing the Manchester United captain. But there is one statistic. He still cannot compare with the Manchester United captain. In comparison, that's the number of assists. The Manchester United captain has completed seven attacks so far..."

"However, good things have not stopped for the Manchester United captain. He and Manchester United teammate South Korea Park have been shortlisted for this year's Asian Footballer of the Year. Not surprisingly, he will win this award strongly."

The Asian Footballer of the Year has been awarded to the best Asian football players of the year since 1984. It is one of the important awards in the annual awards ceremony of the Asian Football Confederation.

Since 1984, this award has generally been won by players from South Korea, Japan, Iran and Saudi Arabia. It was not until 2001 that Chinese player Fan Zhiyi won an Asian Footballer.

The three finalists this year are South Korean player Park Ji-sung, Saudi player Hamad Al-Montashari and Chinese player Dong Fangzhuo.

After understanding several important scoring criteria for "Asian Footballer", you can know that there is no suspense about this award.

1. mvp points. The number of times he was awarded the best player of the match.

2. Team performance. National team and club results.

3. Fair play. Points will be deducted for red and yellow cards.

4. Number of goals scored. It is limited to PK between frontcourt players. If the candidate is a goalkeeper and a defender, this item may be ignored.

Often serving as the double captain of the National Youth Team and the club, he also won the World Youth Championship Top Scorer and the European Golden Boy Award. Dong Fangzhuo has so many advantages, so naturally there is no suspense.

Needless to say, Muntashali, Saudi Arabia has been eliminated, and he has no hope at all. In fact, the Asian Footballer of 2005 was just played by Park Ji-sung and Dong Fangzhuo, and Park Ji-sung also played a companion role, no matter from the perspective of Which angle is better?

Park Ji-sung is simply incomparable to Dong Fangzhuo.

However, the "Manchester Evening News" pointed out that this year the AFC has introduced a rule that no prizes will be awarded if you are not present.

"Such a rule is really funny. If a player is participating in a very important game that day, does the AFC have to do the same? Did they come up with it on the fly?"

"It is no coincidence that on the day of the AFC awards, Manchester United happened to have a game, but fortunately it was against West Bromwich Albion in the League Cup. The Manchester United captain did not need to play, otherwise he would have missed the Asian Footballer of the Year. As for Park, it’s impossible for him to get it unless Dong decides not to accept the award. Of course, they have to lead Manchester United to defeat Villarreal at home before that!”

The Champions League home game against Villarreal four days later will determine whether Manchester United can qualify from the Champions League group. In the first four rounds of the Champions League group stage, Manchester United's results are two wins, one draw and one loss, and they are temporarily ranked with 7 points. Second, 7 points is not enough for Manchester United to break through the group stage. The three teams ranked first, Villarreal and third Lille, all have the opportunity to win the first place in the group. Manchester United cannot tolerate any mistakes.

If Manchester United wins, it can at least ensure qualifying for the group. If Manchester United loses, then we need to look at the result of the last round away game against Lille.

In order to hold the initiative in their hands, Manchester United only has to defeat Villarreal at home.

But is Villarreal, currently ranked first in the group, so easy to beat? In the first round, Manchester United tied them with a difficult 2:2 away game. There was no Riquelme on the field at that time. Although the second round was at home, Riquelme returned from injury. Villa had Riquelme. Real is like a strong European team.

"Manchester Evening News" then said another extreme situation: "If Chinese Dong and South Korean Park both participate in the League Cup, it means that neither of them can win the Asian Footballer of the Year award. In the end, It was the Saudis who got it..."

Dong Fangzhuo doesn't care about receiving the award, but the Chinese Football Association is not stupid. Dong Fangzhuo is going to receive the award no matter what. Not surprisingly, this is the second time a Chinese player has won the Asian Footballer of the Year award. Dong Fangzhuo can become the second Chinese to win this award in history.

Therefore, the Chinese Football Association has informed Manchester United in advance that it must be released by Manchester United when the time comes...

In fact, Chinese football is too nervous. After the Champions League and then the League Cup, Ferguson himself has no intention of sending Dong Fangzhuo to the main lineup...

Chinese fans also side with the Football Association on this matter.

If Dong Fangzhuo does not get this award, it will be unjust...

Coincidentally, the Argentine Football Association also awarded the Argentine Footballer of the Year award at this time.

Messi, who lost to Dong Fangzhuo in the Golden Boy Award, successfully entered the final candidates. He defeated Riquelme and Saviola and successfully won the 2005 Argentine World Footballer.

In order to win this award, Messi did not participate in Barcelona's full team training, but flew back to Argentina in advance.

An Argentinian footballer may be able to comfort his injured heart a little. After all, the feeling of not getting the Golden Boy Award is quite bad. Watching Dong Fangzhuo snatch the Golden Boy Award from his hands, Messi has not relaxed yet. Come on.

Messi subsequently made various headlines in European media, and photos of him smiling and kissing the trophy were reprinted on major news websites and newspapers.

Spain's "Marca" said with profound meaning: "If you can't win the Golden Boy, it's not bad to win the Argentine Footballer of the Year. Messi is still young, and he still has at least two chances to win the award, because the rules of the Golden Boy Award are Players under the age of 21 are eligible to win the award. But who knows what talent will emerge next year? Maybe Cesc Fabregas, who also came from La Masia's youth academy?"

"He was like a kid who finally got his own candy."

"Mr. Blatter may also be smiling happily, but Riquelme is probably going to cry..."