Grassroots Glory

The selection rule for the Golden Boy Award is that 30 mainstream European media will rate the candidates, and each vote will be scored out of 10 points.

At present, Zhou Tiancheng ranks first with a total score of 200 points, AC Milan's talented forward with 180 points, Fiorentina's potential rookie Jovetic with 175 points, and Barcelona forward Bojan Corki Qi is also one hundred and seventy-five points.

It seems that Zhou Tiancheng has a great advantage, but in fact 30 media participated in the first round of scoring, and the final average score is not the highest.

It's no wonder that there are two Serie A players in the top four, and Bojan, who has been widely followed since the La Masia youth training camp. It is basically impossible for Zhou Tiancheng to earn high scores from the Italian and Spanish media. Most of the high scores come from the German media. As a Bundesliga player, of course they give their full support. In their view, Schalke almost reached the semi-finals of the Champions League with Zhou Tiancheng last season, and eliminated Porto in two rounds with one pass and one shot. He scored a key penalty in the second round against Liverpool. Isn't this genius who can change the direction of the game by himself the strongest young man? I also wrote this sentence on the front page: If Zhou Tiancheng of Schalke 04 cannot be elected, then the meaning of the Golden Boy Award will be re-discussed. Because it has lost its justice and become the same as the Golden Globes!

In addition, Zhou Tiancheng's high score was also contributed by French and Dutch media. and both gave a high score of nine points.

As for why not give ten points? It wasn't that they had doubts about Zhou Tiancheng, but it was a strategy they adopted to ensure that their scoring in the first round was effective. Since the establishment of the Golden Boy Award, one of the items has been fairness and justice. Therefore, after the first round of voting, the highest and lowest scores must be removed to eliminate discrimination and prejudice. Therefore, it is invalid to score 10 points.

The second round of final selection will also be held immediately. This round of participation in the media is less, only 20 companies form the selection team, and the final winner will be announced soon.

The German media still attaches great importance to the Golden Boy Award, because German football has always attached importance to young people. As for the Chinese media, in the past Chinese media paid more attention to top and traditional awards like the Golden Globes, but this year due to Zhou Tiancheng's reasons, the enthusiasm for the Golden Boy Awards is even higher than ever. There are even a lot of popular science posts on the Internet, giving some fans the ins and outs of the Golden Boy Award. The key point is: people who have won the Golden Globe are now, or will soon be destined to become big names.

After saying this, everyone will understand that Zhou Tiancheng is on the road to fame and fame - the premise is that he can be elected, but in the hearts of Chinese fans, there is no such premise.

As for Zhou Tiancheng himself, he can’t pay attention to this selection. The number of reporters outside the training base has doubled in the past two days. It's not worthy of such attention, they all came here for the prospective golden boy Zhou Tiancheng.

Zhou Tiancheng, can you tell me a few words? You are very likely to become the first Asian winner of the Golden Boy Award and the first player in Asian football.

Your success will definitely inspire more local young players to pursue their dreams abroad. Do you have any experience that you can give them?

Leaving Pato and Bojan behind, we all know that you came from Schalke's youth training camp. In your heart, does this mean that Schalke's youth training is not weaker than La Masia?

Listening to these reporters' questions, one feels that Zhou Tiancheng has already held the trophy in his hands, and the following is his acceptance speech for the camera.

But Zhou Tiancheng refused humorously: I see that the reporters are very enthusiastic, so you are so optimistic about me? Then I can't say more now, the result has not yet come out. If I have an award acceptance speech here first, it will not be selected by then. Oolong will be a big problem, I will leave these issues to the judges first, and win the next Champions League group match, this is something I can decide.

Zhou Tiancheng declined all media interviews. Jiang Hao expressed his incomprehension: Brother Cheng, are you really worried that you won't be selected? How could it be possible? If it was me, I just pushed the boat along with the few questions just now. Since the media wanted to make him fire Well, it’s not a bad thing anyway, it will only make you more popular.”

We play football, and we're not models doing catwalk shows. We earn money from the lens? Haozi, your thinking is very dangerous. Don't be carried away by the momentary scene. Reporters can make you go up overnight, and they can also bring you down. Abyss. I know of one example.

Who is it?

Dong Fangzhuo, the king Dong, you are from Dalian. You were praised so much at the beginning, and you were so glorious when you joined Manchester United. In the end, you became Dong Zhuo... A lesson learned from the past! If you want to be the focus, don't worry about those things, play well, professional players The truth speaks with your feet.

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In the fourth round of the UEFA Champions League, Athletic's away game set up a 5-4-1 formation from the very beginning, deploying a dense defense within 40 meters of their own half. This is how they used this method in the first round of the group stage against Atletico Madrid. To score a point, obviously they are going to the Schalke Stadium proudly, and scoring a point is the goal.

The opponent's defensive posture once caused trouble for Schalke, but in the end Schalke still scored three points at home. In the 84th minute, Zhou Tiancheng passed two people in the midfield, and then fired a long-range shot from outside the penalty area and hit the dead corner.

The sudden lore of this kick also made Marcel Leff's passion burst out instantly: GOOOOOAL!!! Zhou! Zhou! The shot hit the theoretical dead end, the perfect way to score. Look at Zhou like this, I want to ask Those reporters who didn’t vote for Zhou, what do you think? Isn’t Zhou like this worthy of a golden boy?”

The 1:0 full-court score is hardly beautiful compared to the absolute scene suppression, but it will never be criticized. Breaking the iron barrel formation is a world-class problem. The opponent can put up such a pure defensive formation and score one point. The goal is also a manifestation of Schalke's strength - in the home draw with Atletico Madrid, APOEL had five shots in the audience. It can be seen that they still played some offensives, but today they only had one.

And in fact, Schalke doesn't need to win a lot. As long as they win, they can sit firmly at the top of the group. In the next round of home games against Chelsea, they can secure the first place in the group in advance.

In the early morning of the second day after the end of this round of the Champions League, Zhou Tiancheng announced the final selection results of this year's Golden Boy Award while the team was still sleeping because of the team's routine holiday.

It did not disappoint the majority of people who were looking forward to it. The huge photo of Zhou Tiancheng occupied the front page of the newspaper. The enlarged and bold headline pointed out the particularity of Zhou Tiancheng's election: The Birth of China's Golden Boy! Stunning and well-deserved results!