Chapter 020 About Self-confidence
The European Golden Boy Award is a selection criterion that pays attention to the individual and collective honors of the candidate players. Generally, there are only four kinds, which are club honors, personal honors, and national team honors. If the player is in a rich family, then there is also a halo bonus for the rich family club.
Although there are 40 candidates on the list, there are only a few popular candidates every year, that is, three or four, a maximum of five or six. Last year's winners were Messi, Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo, among which Messi competed most fiercely with Cristiano Ronaldo. Finally, Messi from La Liga giants Barcelona won the 2005 European Golden Boy Award.
From the submission of the candidate list in September to the award in January 2007, in the nearly three months, the Turin Sports Journal will periodically survey the support rate of candidates, make rankings, and publish them in the newspaper.
However, generally speaking, which players are the popular candidates? After the list of 40 people comes out, the media can roughly guess. After all, the real genius Junyan is better than others.
Now, in the eyes of the media, these four people are really strong enough to win the '2006 European Golden Boy Award':
Messi of Barcelona, Rooney of Manchester United, Fabregas of Arsenal. And the publicity of Marseille.
Among them, Messi was the winner of last year's 'European Golden Boy Award', the one with the highest bid, and Messi is likely to become the first young man to defend this honor. This small Argentine player is praised by the media as the successor of Maradona.
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Argentinian football has never lacked genius. The unruly monsoon of the Pampas grassland and the rushing running water of the La Plata River have bred generations of superstars. However, since Diego Maradona, Argentine football seems to have never found a handsome talent with a leadership temperament: Batistuta's goal is like picking up grass, but it is difficult to motivate the whole team; Redondo has the talent to command the three armies, but he abandoned the national team for a long hair; Ortega has an amazing skill, but it is difficult In order to correct the bad habit of fake falls. Therefore, since Maradona was found to be taking banned drugs in the United States in 1994, Argentina has never performed well in the World Cup.
Unlike the "crow's mouth" Bailey who likes to predict the championship of major events, Maradona, after retirement, in addition to dealing with illegitimate child lawsuits, detoxification and weight loss, is most enthusiastic about finding a successor for himself. In the past 10 years, there have been at least six or seven successors selected by Maradona. Before Messi, the most famous was Saviola.
Being able to win the honor of South American Footballer's Player before the age of 18, Saviola is the first person in history. Since he entered the A-League in early 1998, Saviola has become the top scorer in the Argentine Serie A in just one year. A year later, he scored 20 goals in the Argentine League in the spring and autumn, setting a new personal career record. At the beginning of fame, countless people began to compare Saviola with Maradona. Later, the media finally invited Lao Ma to comment on which of the new stars in Argentina was most similar to him at that time. Maradona did not hesitate to say Saviola's name.
The 2001 World Youth Championship made Saviola famous. In order to compete with Real Madrid, which owns Zidane, Barcelona President Gaspat finally paid nearly 26 million US dollars to buy Saviola. In the first season of La Liga, the 20-year-old "Rabbit" scored 17 goals without standing firmly in the main position, starting quite well. However, since the second year, Saviola has caught up with the high-level shocks of FC Barcelona and the frequent changes of the head coach. Lexage didn't know where to put him. Van Gaal tried to revive the "Dutch Gang" and gave Saviola small shoes. And Antich, who reused Saviola, was soon ousted. After La Porta joined the main club, he began to clear Gaspat's old part. The innocent Saviola became the object of cleaning up and was leased to Monaco. Although he performed well in Monaco, Barcelona has made it clear that he will not take back Saviola, and the only thing waiting for him is the next transfer.
In the national team, Saviola's situation is also not good. Although after class in Belsa, Peckelman, the former mentor of the national youth team, favored him and almost took on heavy responsibilities in the field, Saviola could only return with very few goals. In the past year, he only scored one goal in the World Cup qualifiers against Venezuela and the Confederations Cup against Tunisia, which attracted fierce criticism from the media. For the teenager's famous "Maradona successor", there are not many opportunities to prove himself. With the great expectations of Argentines, Saviola may become the successor of Maradona, which most disappoints Argentines.
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For goodly, at this time, Messi was born and filled the empty heart of the Argentines.
Messi started in the European arena and is familiar with European style of play. The skills of South American players and the tactical edification of the European arena will make Messi more sharper, and his combat ability and adaptability will be stronger. From this perspective, Messi is more worth looking forward to than his many predecessors.
The surprise at the World Youth Championship has made Messi a hot target of the media. In the history of Argentine football, no player has ever had the opportunity to play in the World Cup with an adult national team in the following year after participating in the World Youth Championship. Peckelman decisively brought Messi to Germany at the World Cup in Germany this summer. Although this small player has not been able to help Argentina turn the tide, his future is unlimited.
Messi, who is famous, still maintains a consistent silence and introcity, even silence, as if the scenery of the World Youth Championship has not set off waves in his heart at all. Although many people said that he looked like Maradona, Messi was not complaed about it. He said, "Diego is unique, and I never expected to reach his height."
In this regard, the Argentine media joked, "Ten years later, after Messi won the Grand Slam, will he still say that?"
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In addition, Arsenal's Fabregas was praised by the Spanish media as the successor of Guardiola.
Therefore, there is also a media joke that the competition for the 'European Golden Globe Awards' in 2006 was a contest between 'Paphan's successor', 'Guardiola's successor' and 'Maradona's successor'. Well, if you think so, Messi's hope of winning the bid is the greatest, and Zhang Yang's hope of winning the bid is the smallest.
Why? In front of Maradona, Guardiola is not enough, let alone Papin.
Of course, Manchester United star Rooney, who once won the 'European Golden Child Award', was also favored by some media and fans, becoming the first player to win the 'European Golden Child Award' twice.
It is worth mentioning that Rooney was born on October 24, 1985. Because the European Golden Boy Award is a young player under the age of 21, he almost won't get this opportunity again.
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Zhang Yang made AC Milan suffer in the Champions League, which undoubtedly made him very popular with the attention of the Italian media. The Marseille media joked, which is a big advantage of Zhang Yang.
To be honest, Zhang Yang is really not very clear about the 'European Golden Boy Award'. He only knows that there is the 'European Golden Boy Award' award, but he doesn't know much about the specifics. It's not because he is ignorant. The boy who only knows training and competitions all day long is almost an otaku.
Zhang Yang heard that he was selected into the list of the European Golden Globe Awards, and the demand for winning the championship was relatively high. In addition to his surprise, he learned about the authority and importance of the European Golden Globe Awards, and was also excited.
This is known as the 'Little Golden Globe Award'. Although the young player who wins this award may not be able to win the European Golden Globe Award one day, it is definitely an opportunity that he is not willing to let go of for Zhang Yang, who seems to be honest and likes to be in the limelight!
Therefore, in an interview with The Voice of the North, Zhang Yang was not polite at all. He ambitiously said that he was bound to win the award.
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The reporter of "Voice of the North" looked at this confident boy, but he was a little surprised and strange. Isn't it strange that Asians like to humbly say, "I'm not good enough, others are better than me"? However, he will be relieved to think of what this young man did after joining Marseille.
However, the reporter still asked, "Why do you think you will definitely win the Golden Boy Award?"
Er - Zhang Yang was stunned. This question is really an idiot's problem. He almost blurted out, 'Idiot, that's because I'm the best!' He doesn't want to admit which of these peers is better than himself. Maybe there are indeed better than him among those people, but this morale can't be lost. If young people are It's this kind of domineering!
You can say that Zhang Yang is excessively arrogant, or he can also say that he is very confident.
However, this is the character of this young man. Usually, he is a very sunny and peaceful young man, but on the competition field, when competing for honor, it is absolutely flamboyant! In fact, whether you like this young man or not, you have to admit that those real legendary shooters seem to be this virtue. For example, Mr. Cantona.
Of course, Zhang Yang can't say directly that I'm better than those guys. He is confident and even a little arrogant, but he is not stupid. That's too arrogant. Well, does he think he is very gentle now?
He began to break his fingers to settle accounts for the reporter. Look, I'm a shooter.
The reporter nodded.
The goal of the shooter is the number of goals. He said.
The reporter nodded in agreement.
I scored 33 goals last season. He said again.
The reporter nodded again.
My number of goals is the most among these people. Judging from the data, I am the most advantageous.
The reporter stared at Zhang Yang. You are really good at calculating. You are a shooter. Messi is not a pure shooter, and Fabregas is even less. However, he suddenly felt in his heart that Zhang Yang's chance to win the 'European Golden Child Award' seemed to be really the biggest.
The golden boots of Ligue 1 are the biggest capital of publicity!
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"Why are you so confident?" At the end of the interview, the reporter asked another very idiotic question. When he asked this question, he knew that he was wrong. He really wanted to give himself a mouth. Sure enough, he looked at himself in surprise when he saw Zhang Yang. It seemed to say that I have confidence in myself. Is this wrong?
Well, you're right. Everyone has the right to have confidence in themselves. In fact, he really wants to say, young people, you have to be modest. However, after thinking about it, he still doesn't say anything. He has made up his mind. He must let this boy suffer a little in the report. It's not a good thing that young people have too much momentum. He felt that he had no malice at all, just out of the protection of the young man.
So, in the next day's report, the reporter of "Voice of the North" chose the title: Raise confidence a hundred times, and threaten to win the Golden Child Award!
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