King of the Zone

Two days after the rainy battle with Borussia Mönchengladbach, on December 12, FIFA and "French Football" jointly announced the final three-man squad for the 5 FIFA Ballon d'Or in Paris.

Cheng Hai was selected into the final list of three candidates without any suspense, and became the final top three with Messi and Ronaldo.

The final award ceremony will be held in Zurich, Switzerland on January 2012, 1. During this period, the coaches, captains and media reporters of FIFA's national teams will vote for the final winner and become the best player in world football in 9.

Obviously, among these three people, Ronaldo is the one with the lowest voice. Whether it is collective honor or personal performance, he was not as good as Cheng Hai and Messi last season and the whole year of 2011.

Therefore, it can be said that although the award ceremony has not yet been held, the media and fans all over the world already know that this year's Ronaldo is destined to be a foil.

Ronaldo also updated his social media account as soon as the list was announced: "I am very happy to be shortlisted for the top three Golden Globes again!"

It seems that a little self-deprecating meaning of knowing that he can't win the award can be interpreted!
As for Messi and Cheng Hai, although they both said the same thing as Ronaldo, this cannot be regarded as self-deprecating.

The two were clearly true rivals.

Who will win the FIFA Ballon d'Or at the end of the year? There is still a lot of suspense!

This will naturally arouse heated discussions among the media and fans all over the world. Everyone has a heated debate on who should win the 2011 FIFA Ballon d'Or when Cheng Hai or Messi fell to the ground.

Of course, as Cheng Hai continued to break records and make news, most of the media and fans were already optimistic about Cheng Hai's final award.

It is not too late to announce the list of three candidates. Just the day after FIFA announced the list of three candidates for the Ballon d'Or, "Turin Sports Daily" announced the winners of the 2011 European Golden Boy Award.

This is no surprise.

"Turin Sports News" announced Cheng Hai's winning information with bold and enlarged text and pictures on the front page: "2011 European Golden Boy Award-Cheng Hai-Dortmund-Hua Guo!"

Then, in the back, the Torino Sports Daily took out two full pages to comprehensively review Cheng Hai's amazing performance in 2011, proving that this year's Golden Boy Award is well-deserved and there is no doubt about it.

"Cheng Hai, a Chinese player who plays for Dortmund in the Bundesliga, was brought to Europe by scouts in the summer of 2010 and embarked on the road of professional football. As a result, he ushered in a big explosion in 2011!"

"Asian Cup, Bundesliga, UEFA Cup, German Super Cup, European Super Cup champion, Bundesliga Golden Boot, Bundesliga single-season scoring record, European Golden Boot, single-season club scoring record, annual total scoring record, annual [-] goals, etc..."

"Cheng Hai's honor in 2011, not to mention compared with young players, even those superstars, at the age of 19, no one did better than Cheng Hai."

"It's no wonder that Cheng Hai, who is only 19 years old, can compete with Messi for the Ballon d'Or!"

Although it has been known for a long time that Cheng Hai won the 2011 European Golden Boy Award, there will be no suspense, but when the "Torino Sport" actually announced the winner, all the Chinese media and fans were still extremely excited.

In addition to being shortlisted for the top three Golden Globe Awards, the Huaguo media and fans naturally carried out a lot of reports and heated discussions on these two great news.

Amid the congratulations and heated discussions of countless people, on the afternoon of December 12, Dortmund ushered in the final round of the UEFA Champions League group match with Marseille.

Although Dortmund and Arsenal have already qualified ahead of the final round of the group stage together, Marseille and Olympiacos have also been eliminated by the group together.

However, in the last round of the group stage, none of the four teams released any water, and they all went all out to finish the last game with real knives and guns.

Because Dortmund and Arsenal, who have the same 10 points, will compete for the first place in the group stage standings, so as to facilitate the knockout draw after entering the top 16: the first place in the group can avoid the first place in other powerful groups.

And Marseille and Olympiacos, who have already been eliminated from the Champions League with 4 points, have not lost their motivation, because they can still compete for the third place in the group and play in the Europa League.

Although the Europa League is not comparable to the Champions League in terms of influence or prize money, it is still a European competition, and it is still more attractive than domestic competitions. If you can win it, you still have to fight for it.

Therefore, in the sixth round of the UEFA Champions League group match between Dortmund VS Marseille starting at 12:6 on the evening of December 21, Marseille, who played away, showed a strong combat effectiveness.

Everyone thought that Dortmund, led by Cheng Hai, should be able to easily defeat Marseille, but Marseille finally scored 3 goals at the Westfalenstadion, shocking the audience.

Fortunately, for Dortmund, Cheng Hai showed the strength of the top three in the Golden Globe Awards and the European Golden Boy Award. He staged a hat-trick and led Dortmund to a 5-3 victory.

Especially when Cheng Hai scored the third goal and performed a hat-trick, the audience was boiling.

Because this is Cheng Hai's 15th goal in the Champions League this season, and it is also the highest scoring record in a single season in the Champions League.

Prior to this season, the record for the most goals scored in a single season in the Champions League was set by AC Milan's José Altafini with 1962 goals in the 1963/14 season.

However, now, in his first season in the UEFA Champions League, Cheng Hai broke this record just after finishing the group stage and before entering the knockout stage.

The moment Cheng Hai blasted the ball into the Marseille goal with a kick from outside the penalty area, the entire Westfalenstadion erupted instantly. More than 8 fans in the stadium, led by the live broadcast, kept shouting Cheng Hai's name and paid homage to him.

The words "Cheng Hai, 15 goals, Champions League single-season personal scoring record" were also displayed on the big screen at the scene.

The commentators from various countries in the commentary booth roared wildly:,

"Toooooooooooooooooooor..."

"hat trick!"

"The 15th goal in the Champions League!"

"new record!"

"Cheng Hai scored his 15th UEFA Champions League goal this season, breaking the record of 1962 goals scored by AC Milan star Jose Altafini in the 1963/14 season!"

"It's too scary, Cheng Hai is simply a scoring machine and a record smasher!"

"Except for the absence of the 5th round of the group stage, Cheng Hai blasted 5 goals in 15 Champions League games, with an average scoring efficiency of 3 goals per game, and an average of one hat-trick per game, which is simply shocking!"

"This is the Champions League, not the UEFA Cup, let alone a match between Asian national teams!"

"With an average scoring efficiency of 3 goals per game in such a world-class competition, Cheng Hai's strength is really beyond doubt."

"At the same time, Cheng Hai's total goals in 2011 also broke through the 140-goal mark, reaching a terrifying 142 goals!"

"I can't describe the shock in my heart at this moment!"

"Tomorrow's news will definitely be Cheng Hai's screen again!"

"For two consecutive days, the top three in the Golden Globe Awards, the European Golden Boy Award, breaking the Champions League single-season scoring record, etc., the front pages of the media all over the world will be occupied by Cheng Hai!"

"I think the FIFA Ballon d'Or probably belongs to Cheng Hai. Although Messi has won La Liga, the Champions League Double, and the Champions League Golden Boot, Cheng Hai's personal performance is too dazzling. Messi is almost completely behind and cannot be compared at all!"

On the field, Cheng Hai also knew what his goal meant, so he rushed to the sidelines to celebrate with a passionate slide rail, and was pushed to the ground by his teammates to stack arhats.

Amidst the warm applause and cheers from the audience, Cheng Hai also won the experience award for breaking the Champions League Golden Boot record.

A single goal in the Champions League is 10 experience, then the Champions League Golden Boot in a single season is 100 million, the new record for goals in a single season in the Champions League is 200 million, and the record for total goals in the Champions League is 400 million.

Cheng Hai set a new record for goals scored in a single season in the UEFA Champions League with 15 goals, so he received an extra record-breaking reward of 200 million experience points, which is considered a very generous reward.

It's a pity that compared to the current high level of experience, even 200 million is a drop in the bucket.

But there is no way, now the experience can only continue to accumulate slowly, and the upgrade is no longer as smooth as it was at the beginning.

The game ended with Cheng Hai's hat-trick leading Dortmund to a 5-3 victory over Marseille.

In another game in the same group, Olympiacos unexpectedly defeated Arsenal 3-1 at home, beating Marseille to finish third in the group, and finally won the place for the Europa League knockout round.

Because of Arsenal's loss, Dortmund, who won this round, naturally won the first place in the group standings with 13 points, occupying a relatively favorable position for the next Champions League knockout draw.

Of course, whether it was Olympiacos who beat Marseille to get third place in the group to qualify for the Europa League knockout, or Dortmund who won the group first, the media didn't pay much attention to it, at most they just mentioned it after the game.

After the match, the media and fans all over the world reported and talked about Cheng Hai's record of 15 goals scored in a single season in the UEFA Champions League and the record of 2011 goals scored in 142.

In the group stage, he broke the Champions League single-season scoring record and raised the annual total scoring record from Gerd Muller's 85 goals to 142 goals.

As a result, Cheng Hai did it together within a year.

In addition, the final three-man squad for the FIFA Ballon d'Or was announced the day before. Today is the announcement of the European Golden Boy Award and Cheng Hai's 15 goals breaking the UEFA Champions League scoring record in a single season. Almost all media in the world that can read sports reports can see Cheng Hai's photos or goal collections.

Under such intensive publicity, even those national team coaches and captains with underdeveloped information should not know Cheng Hai, and vote for Messi based on their qualifications and influence points, right?

As many narrators or commentators have said, this year's FIFA Ballon d'Or will most likely belong to Cheng Hai!

Although Messi's achievements in La Liga, the Champions League Double and the Champions League Golden Boot last season were not low, Cheng Hai's personal performance has completely overwhelmed all of Messi's performances.

The call for Cheng Hai to win the FIFA Golden Globe Award and become the first Golden Globe winner under the age of 19 in the history of world football is getting louder and louder.