The strongest winger

Chapter 899 Puskas Best Goal of the Year Award
The Chinese team's 6-0 victory over the 2010 West Asian Championship and Gulf Cup champion Kuwait surprised many media in West Asia. Although the Chinese team was recognized as the favorite to win the Asian Cup before the start of the Asian Cup, Kuwait's strength is not bad.

But such a promising Kuwait team was beaten 6:0 by the Chinese team. The West Asian media found it incredible.

The Chinese media and East Asian media think this is a natural result. The strength of the West Asian teams has declined significantly since the 2006 World Cup in Germany. The four direct promotion places for the German World Cup in Asia are Japan, South Korea, Iran and Saudi Arabia, that is, two teams from East Asia and West Asia.

From this data, it can be easily seen that the strength of East Asian teams is obviously stronger than that of La Liga. It is not surprising that China beat Kuwait with six goals in the first round, a team that could not participate in the World Cup. The West Asia Championship and the Gulf Cup are not well-known in East Asia. Many fans have not even heard of it, let alone their influence.

Not long after the game ended, the topic circle of #中国队亚洲杯首大重# posted on Xinlang Weibo was occupied by tens of millions of fans, who expressed their inner joy, especially when they thought of Ai Luo’s goal of leading the Chinese team to win the championship before the start of the game. After seeing this big score, domestic fans are looking forward to the Chinese team’s historic Asian Cup championship.

Those domestic football-loving stars also made relevant remarks one after another, pushing the Chinese team's first-round victory in the Asian Cup to the peak of the final round.

The next day, all the newspapers reporting on the Asian Cup were sold out, so many newspapers required workers to work overtime for additional printing, which was enough to show how much the first round of the Asian Cup victory was.

The Chinese have always paid attention to a good start. The six-goal victory over Kuwait was a big hit!
On this day, many Chinese fans who had previously hesitated to go to Qatar began to make up their minds. They thought that instead of waiting for good news in the country, it would be better to go to the front line to enjoy the victory with the national team until they won the first Asian Cup championship in Chinese football history!

One makes two, two to the right makes four, four makes eight...

Many young fans with this idea immediately responded and went to Doha!

There is joy in China, but Qatar, the host country, is not optimistic.

As FIFA President Sepp Blatter announced at the headquarters in Zurich on December 2022 last year that the right to host the [-] FIFA World Cup belongs to Qatar, the football atmosphere in this country is getting stronger and stronger.

Qatar has nearly 2022 years of buffer time to prepare for the 12 World Cup, so the Qatar Football Association has issued a series of youth football development plans to prepare for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

It just so happened that Qatar successfully hosted the 2007 Asian Cup in 2011, and the Qatar Football Association is preparing to use this Asian Cup as an alchemy stone to see how the national team's level is.

Because Qatar is planning to invest nearly 2022 billion US dollars in the construction of a modern football stadium in the 600 World Cup, and the investment behind it is countless. If the World Cup cannot achieve good results by then, it will definitely be a big blow.

Fortunately, there is still more than ten years of buffer time, which is enough to cultivate a group of outstanding young players...

It is not ideal to want to impose interests on the current children, so the Qatar Football Association put their minds on this Asian Cup.

Previously, Qatar's best performance in the Asian Cup was the 2000 Asian Cup in Lebanon, where they qualified for the quarter-finals.

So this time at home to participate in the competition, at least you have to get in the top four, right?

If you can really get the top four, it will have a huge role in promoting the Qatar Football Association's ten-year youth training plan in China.

Therefore, the Qatari media, along with the West Asian media, are gradually optimistic about Qatar's achievements, but... people are not as good as heaven.

The optimistic Qatar lost 0:2 to Uzbekistan in the opening game, which is very detrimental to their prospects of qualifying-the next round will be the favorite Chinese team to win the championship.

The prospect of qualifying is extremely worrying, what about the agreed-upon imagined semi-finals?
However, the Chinese team beat Kuwait with six goals in the first round, showing a strong prospect of winning the championship. Therefore, Qatar coach Mechu had a headache, and according to the process of the game, Ai Luo, the number one star of the Chinese team, did not even have many chances to shine. If Ai Luo followed suit, wouldn't the score go to double digits?
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The day before the Chinese team challenged the host country Qatar for the second round, the world's mainstream media focused on the FIFA headquarters in Zurich - where the winner of the first FIFA Ballon d'Or will be born.

As the first grand event jointly organized by FIFA and "French Football" magazine, there are naturally Chinese media and some Asian media focusing on Zurich. It is a pity for them that the former European Ballon d'Or and World Player of the Year winner Aiello failed to enter the final three candidates.

However, Ai Luo and Zhang Linpeng were selected as the best team of the year at the FIFA Ballon d'Or Awards Ceremony, and Ai Luo was selected as the candidate for the best goal of the year. In the first round of the World Cup against Germany last year, he faced goalkeeper Neuer's header as a gift.

This ball also became the best goal of the World Cup in South Africa, and it is not surprising that it was selected as the best goal of FIFA in 2010.

Aiello has four competitors. The first one is that Altentop picked up the Kazakhstan defender from the left side of the penalty area after receiving a long pass from the center circle, and scored from a zero-angle volley; the second candidate goal came from the World Cup in South Africa. Dutch captain Van Bronckhorst’s ultra-long-range shot over 40 meters touched the right goal post and crossbar and scored; Against the Spaniard, he scored from a small angle like a flower dancing butterfly.

These five goals have their own characteristics. In the end, which goal can win the title of Goal of the Year will depend on the final selection results to draw a conclusion.

As early as when the Chinese team was preparing for the first Asian Cup group match with Kuwait, Aiello received an official invitation from FIFA to participate in the FIFA annual awards ceremony. However, at this time, the Asian Cup was in full swing in Qatar, and it was obviously inappropriate to run back and forth. In addition, there was a group match with Qatar the day after the FIFA awards ceremony, so Aiello declined.

The FIFA official was not surprised. After all, the Asian Cup is going on. It would be a surprise if Aiello could still accept the invitation to participate in the FIFA Gala. Moreover, the previous invitation was just a courtesy, and he had already been mentally prepared.

2010年国际足联金球奖颁奖典礼是在欧洲中部时间2011年1月11日晚上7点进行。

Because this is the reason for the cooperation between FIFA and the "French Football" trivia capital, the invited social celebrities and superstars in the film and music circles are more than those in the past few years.

The appetizer of the FIFA Ballon d'Or Awards Ceremony is the announcement of the best team of the year. The best of the two positions is the focus of the Chinese media. The best goalkeeper is captain Iker Casillas who followed Spain to win the world championship. The four defenders are Lahm, Pique, Puyol and Zhang Linpeng, the midfielders are Xavi, Iniesta and Messi, and the three forwards are Aiello, Cristiano Ronaldo and David Villa.

There are trophies for each position of the FIFA best team of the year, but Chinese internationals Aiello and Zhang Linpeng were unable to come to the Zurich Opera House because they participated in the Asian Cup. They were replaced by Aiello and Zhang Linpeng's club teammates David Silva and Terry respectively. The subsequent group photo was also replaced by the two of them.

The second award presented at the award ceremony was the President's Contribution Award at the original FIFA Annual Awards Ceremony, and the winner was Tutu, the chairman of the South African Football Association.

The third award is FIFA's best women's football coach award. The three candidates are Ned, Meinert and Sondhag. Ned and Meinert are both German, and Sondhag is Swedish. In the end, German women's football coach Ned won the honor of the best women's football coach.

Following the award of the best women's football coach, the best men's football coach was awarded. Ferguson, who led Manchester United to win the triple crown before retiring, defeated Del Bosque and Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola, who led Spain to win the World Cup.

The FIFA Ballon d'Or fair play award went to the Haiti U17 women's national team.

The next award is the focus of the Chinese media's last attention, because the award is... Puskas' best goal of the year award!

Moreover, the selection of this award is also the last concern of the Chinese media on the FIFA Ballon d'Or annual awards show.

At the same time, it is also the focus of attention of the Chinese players who are staying in the hotel of the Chinese team and preparing to sleep.

Feng Xiaoting, Wang Xiaolei, Zhang Linpeng, Gao Lin, Chen Tao... and others were all sitting in Ai Luo's room waiting for the announcement of the results from Zurich.

Aiello himself is also a little nervous. His biggest competitor is Messi scoring four consecutive goals in the penalty area, which is a bit difficult.

In order to save time, there were no guests to announce this award. Instead, after the whole process of the five wonderful goals was played, the screens of the five goals flashed frequently, and the screen finally stopped at Aiello’s non-stop half-volley goal at the front of the center circle. In other words, Aiello won the 2010 FIFA Ballon d’Or Puskas Goal of the Year Award.

"Handsome!"

Everyone in the room raised their arms and shouted, hugging Ai Luo one after another.

(End of this chapter)