Chapter 587 Mr. Eighth
Italian international Cannavaro, who is finally playing for Real Madrid in Spain, was elected as the World Footballer with a 44-point advantage and took the trophy from Davis. As the first candidate list for the final three-person candidate, Cannavaro is also the first pure defender to be elected in the World Footballer selection. Previously, the British World Football Magazine and fans also won the "World's Best Player" event. If he won the European Footballer in French Football in January 2007, he would have scored a hat trick.
In 2005, Ronaldinho, who was in the glorious selection, ranked second with 400 points, and was elected in the 2006 World Professional Players Association Player's Association's Best Player of the Year event.
Ronaldo, the German World Cup Golden Ball winner who is about to transfer to AC Milan, ranked third with 350 points. Ronaldo was elected World Footballer three times in 2002.
What was surprising was that Buffon was selected as fourth with 317 points, while four world-class forwards Henry scored 317 points, Etoo scored 300 points, Drogba scored 150 points and Dong Fangzhuo scored 95 points.
"What the hell is the selection"
"Why is Dong Fangzhuo ranked behind Etoo and Drogba? There must be something wrong with it. It's impossible, absolutely impossible."
"Whether it is the national team record or the club record, Dong Fangzhuo is worse than them, Dong Fangzhuo is the best scorer in the World Cup."
After the points were announced, Chinese fans were immediately furious and believed that FIFA's selection was a complete trick.
Eighth, Dong Fangzhuo has no personal opinion. For him, the ranking of the second place at the beginning has no meaning, only the first place has meaning. Who would be ecstatic or depressed for the eighth place
After the award ceremony, FIFA also announced the 2006 FIFA year-end ranking. As a result, Brazil has been ranked first for five consecutive years and won the honor of the best team of the year. Italy, the new World Cup champion, won the fastest-progress award. In the past year, the Blues' points have surged by 819 points. Before and after the World Cup, because FIFA modified the ranking calculation method, Italy, which won the championship in Germany, soared by 822 points, and its year-end ranking has also increased from 12th place in 2005 to its current ranking.
The ranking of the Chinese team is even more explosive, and it is directly ranked 35th. You should know that the national team's world rankings have begun to be released in the year. The Chinese men's football team has the highest ranking of 37 in the world and the highest ranking of Asia.
In 1998, Chinese men's football team won the bronze medal at the Bangkok Asian Games in a new form of mixed formations, so it jumped to 37th in the world in FIFA's year-end ranking.
Now the 35th place has set a new record, but it also has no meaning. You are ranked first in the world. If you cannot win honors, no one will be happy about it.
After the award ceremony, some media began to comment on the many problems in the international football award ceremony. The most popular one was the Spanish Catalonia media.
The day after the selection, the World Sports News posted the title "Mr. World Football, a farce", while another newspaper, Daily Sports News, simply listed the news that Etoo made a comeback early as the headlines, and placed the "Mr. World Football" selection report at the inconspicuous position at the bottom of the front page.
Daily Sports' polls show that 79 Barcelona fans believe Cannavaro won the award unfairly.
Barcelona club also felt fooled. Before the final of the Club World Cup began, the media reported that Ronaldo would receive the "World Footballer". However, as soon as the Club World Cup ended, the news revealed from FIFA became Cannavaro the winner.
Barcelona believes that the reason why FIFA did this is to make Barcelona happy to play the final of the Club World Cup with all their might, but after the game is over, they no longer care about Barcelona's face. But now, new evidence has been reported that there are indeed some strange factors in FIFA's selection of "World Footballer" this time.
Among all the votes, Goodjohansen's vote was very eye-catching. As the captain of the Iceland national team, Goodjohansen chose Barcelona teammate Ronaldo as the first. His second option was declared invalid. The third place was filled with Cannavaro's name.
Goodjohansen was very puzzled by this because he only filled in Ronaldo's name on the ballot, and why Cannavaro's name appeared in the third place, which made him puzzled. This is also the reason why Goodjohansen was unwilling to answer the questions of Barcelona reporters after the award was announced. The ballots do not match the votes you voted against, what did you ask him to say
World Sports News believes that after listening to some statements from the coaches and captains of various national teams, the suspicion of FIFA's "vote-making" in the selection of "Mr. World Footballers" is already very obvious. Because not only Goodjohansen's votes have abnormalities, there are many people who publicly complain that the votes have been tampered with. The votes have been tampered with, but because they do not involve their own interests, they are unwilling to say more, and there are probably many.
"We have reason to doubt that there are people who are interested in pushing Cannavaro to the throne of the winner," said World Sports.
In addition to Goodjohansen, there are many other people who publicly stated that there are abnormal votes. For example, 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 the one who finally appeared on the FIFA statistics table was not Dong Fangzhuo, but Kaka.
The captain of the Andorra national team also expressed his doubts on the radio, because he clearly chose Dong Fangzhuo first, but the one who appeared first became Henry.
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", the votes of those small countries would be changed beyond recognition.
The evidence found by World Sports News in painstakingly also indirectly helped Dong Fangzhuo, because the votes of the few people they listed were all Dong Fangzhuo's names disappeared inexplicably.
"Oh, this is the weakness of Chinese football. We have no say in Europe and FIFA. We can do whatever we 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.
Chapter completed!