Chapter 587 Mr. 8

In the end, Italian international Cannavaro, currently playing for Real Madrid in Spain, was elected World Footballer of the Year with a 44-point advantage and received the trophy from Davis. As Cannavaro, who was selected for the final three candidates for the first time, , he is also the first pure defense player to be elected in the World Footballer selection. He also won the "World's Best Player" event sponsored by the British "World Football" magazine and voted by fans. If he wins in January 2007 If he also wins the European Footballer of the Year competition held by "France Football", then he will have a hat trick.

In 2005, Ronaldinho, who had great success in various selections, ranked second with 400 points. In 2006, the Brazilian was only elected in the Player of the Year event selected by the World Professional Footballers Association.

Ronaldo, the German World Cup Golden Ball winner who is about to move to AC Milan, ranked third with 350 points. Ronaldo was elected World Footballer three times in 1997, 1998 and 2002.

What is surprising is that Buffon was elected fourth with 317 points, while four world-class forwards Henry (317 points), Eto'o (300 points), Drogba (150 points) and Dong Fangzhuo (95) ranked fifth. to eight.

"What the hell selection?"

"Why is Dong Fangzhuo ranked behind Eto'o and Drogba! There must be something fishy about this. It's impossible, absolutely impossible."

"Whether it is the national team record or the club record, is Dong Fangzhuo worse than them? Dong Fangzhuo is the top scorer in the World Cup!"

Chinese fans immediately went crazy after the scores were announced, thinking that FIFA's selection was completely a trick.

Eighth, Dong Fangzhuo doesn't have any personal opinions. For him, rankings starting from second place have no meaning. Only first place is meaningful. Who would be ecstatic or depressed about finishing eighth?

After the award ceremony, FIFA also announced the 2006 FIFA year-end rankings. As a result, Brazil occupied the top spot for five consecutive years and won the honor of the best team of the year. Italy, the new World Cup champion, won the Most Improved Award. In the past In one year, the Azzurri's points surged by 819 points. Before and after the World Cup, due to FIFA's revision of the ranking calculation method, Italy's points, which won the championship in Germany, jumped by 822 points. The year-end ranking also dropped from 12th in 2005. promoted to second place on the current list.

The ranking of the Chinese team is even more explosive, directly soaring to 35th place. You should know that FIFA has released the world rankings of national teams since 1993. The Chinese men's football team has the highest ranking of 37 in the world and the highest ranking of 3 in Asia.

In 1998, the Chinese men's football team won the bronze medal at the Bangkok Asian Games in a new mixed team format, and suddenly jumped to 37th in the world in FIFA's year-end rankings.

The current 35th position has set a new record, but this is also meaningless. You are ranked first in the world. If you cannot get the honor, no one will be happy about it.

After the awards were over, some media began to comment that there were many problems with the awards in international football. The most outrageous was the media in Catalonia, Spain.

The day after the selection, the front page of "World Sports News" ran the headline "World Footballer, a farce", while another newspaper "Daily Sports" simply listed the news that Eto'o will make an early comeback. As the headline, the "World Footballer" selection report was placed in an inconspicuous position at the bottom of the front page.

A poll conducted by "Daily Sports" showed that 79% of Barcelona fans believed that Cannavaro's award was unfair.

Barcelona also felt that they had been deceived. Before the start of the Club World Cup final, the news in the media was that Ronaldinho would win the "World Footballer of the Year". However, as soon as the Club World Cup ended, the news revealed by FIFA changed. Cannavaro is the one who holds the cup.

Barcelona believes that the reason why FIFA did this is to allow Barcelona to do its best to play the Club World Cup final happily, but once the game is over, it will no longer take Barcelona's face into consideration. But now, new evidence has come out that there are indeed some weird factors in FIFA's selection of "World Player of the Year".

Of all the votes cast, Gudjohnsen's vote stood out. As the captain of the Icelandic national team, Gudjohnsen selected Barcelona teammate Ronaldinho as the first choice. His second option was declared invalid, and Cannavaro's name was filled in the third position.

Gudjohnsen was very confused about this because he only filled in Ronaldinho's name on the ballot. Why Cannavaro's name appeared in third place puzzled him. This is why Gudjohnsen did not want to answer questions from Barcelona reporters after the award was announced. What did you ask him to say if his vote didn't match his own? !

"World Sports News" believes that after listening to some statements from the coaches and captains of various national teams, the suspicion of FIFA's "voting" in the selection of "World Footballer" has become very obvious. Because it was not just Gudjohnsen who had anomalies in his vote, there were many people who publicly complained that their votes had been tampered with, but they were unwilling to say anything because their votes were tampered with because it did not involve their own interests. I am afraid there are also a few. .

"We have reason to suspect that someone is very interested in putting Cannavaro on the throne of the winner." "World Sports News" said.

In addition to Gudjohnsen, there are many others who have publicly stated that there are abnormalities in the votes. For example, the Brazilian national team coach Dunga said that he voted for Cannavaro, Buffon and Dong Fangzhuo, but FIFA replaced Dong Fangzhuo with Zidane.

Real Madrid captain Raul also said that he chose Cannavaro, Dong Fangzhuo and Henry, but in the end it was not Dong Fangzhuo who appeared on the FIFA statistics table, but Kaká.

The captain of the Andorra national team also expressed his doubts on the radio, because he clearly chose Dong Fangzhuo in the first place, but in the end it was Henry who appeared in the first place.

It seems that Dong Fang is the biggest victim of this year's "World Footballer" selection. "World Sports News" finally said that if the votes of these famous people were "changed", then the votes of some small countries would be changed beyond recognition.

The "evidence" that "World Sports News" painstakingly found also indirectly helped Dong Fangzhuo, because Dong Fangzhuo's name inexplicably disappeared from the votes of several people they listed.

"Alas, this is the weakness of Chinese football. We have no right to speak in Europe and FIFA at all. Others can play whatever they want."

"I hope Xiao Dong can bring more and more influence to Chinese football..."

Even Teacher Qu Youyuan was helpless. This was not something they could change.

Of course, Dong Fangzhuo's ranking in eighth place has already set a new record for Chinese football...