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Chapter 352 Su Dong won an award!
Entering December, European football ushered in the awards season.

On December [-]th, the European Golden Globe Awards Ceremony.

On December [-], the FIFA Awards Ceremony.

These two supreme honors of professional players will be announced one after another in just one week. This will undoubtedly attract the attention of fans and media reporters all over the world, making them worry about whether the star they support can be elected.

Fans and media reporters are nervous, and the players participating in the competition are even more anxious.

Even the clubs where the players belong to are very nervous and are in full swing for the final "public relations".

For example, the Italian media broke the news that Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister and chairman of AC Milan, personally called Erno, the editor-in-chief of the French football magazine, and personally lobbied him, hoping to award this year's European Ballon d'Or to AC Milan star Andriy Shevchenko.

This undoubtedly filled the suspense.

The godfather of Barcelona, ​​Cruyff, spoke for Su Dong in the column for three consecutive days, thinking that Su Dong was the superstar who played the best in the past year, and he should be rewarded, even if he is only 20 years old.

"It can be seen from the national derby that today's professional football is in great need of young players like Su Dong to break the old pattern, bring us a stronger and fresher impact, and inject fresh blood into football!"

The first European Ballon d’Or winner in Barcelona’s history, Spanish star Luis Suarez also frequently spoke out, saying that Su Dong deserved the award, “I don’t think anyone is more qualified to receive this award than him.”

"If Su Dong didn't win the award, I would feel ashamed that I ever got this honor!"

Cruyff has two European Golden Globe Awards, and Luis Suarez has also won a European Golden Globe Award. The two stood on Sudong at the same time, which greatly boosted Sudong's momentum, and Barcelona fully supported Sudong.

First, Chairman Laporta personally accepted an interview to help Sudong, and then technical director Begiristain also came forward to speak out, head coach Rijkaard, captain Puyol, third captain Harvey, midfielder Deco...

In the end, even Ronaldinho said in an interview with the media, "Sudong is indeed more qualified to receive this award than me, and I think he should be awarded!"

With full support from the Barcelona team, Su Dong's momentum is also fully fired.

The Catalan media are also frantically building momentum. Even AS and Marca, which are close to Real Madrid, are actively appealing for Su Dong.

The German newspaper Bild made a special estimate and believed that whether Su Dong can win the award depends on whether he can get far more votes than Shevchenko in the hands of reporters from non-Eastern European countries.

As early as the beginning of December, just after the voting ended, the World Sports Daily had already disclosed the news first, that is, in the Eastern European voting area, Shevchenko surpassed Su Dong, Deco and Ronaldinho on a large scale.

It was Aguilar, a reporter from Mundo Deportivo who voted on behalf of Spain. He once revealed an inside story to Mundo Deportivo, "Almost most of the votes from Eastern Europe, Shevchenko ranked first, and Su Dong could not even enter the top three in many Eastern European votes. This is very outrageous, and they did it on purpose."

The revelation of the World Sports Daily once caused fierce protests from the Spanish media, who believed that this voting method was not fair at all.

"If some voters have determined from the beginning that a certain player will win the award, they will deliberately rank his competitor in a very low position by sorting the ballots and let him get very few points. This is cheating!"

The French Football Magazine quickly disclosed that it has not found any problems in this area for the time being. It believes in the authority of the journalists who voted in the 52 countries. At the same time, it will announce the voting status of the 52 journalists as soon as the awards are announced to show justice.

The Bild newspaper said that Eastern European countries were united, which had already caused considerable controversy in the voting in [-]. It is not uncommon to vote for Shevchenko again this year. However, if the popular rivals such as Sudong and Ronaldinho are really maliciously ranked at the bottom, it will indeed make people have to question the fairness and rigor of the voting.

But Bild said that since the voting mechanism is already like this, there is no way to change it temporarily. If Su Dong wants to win the award, he must grab more points on the votes of non-Eastern European countries to make up for the gap in Eastern European votes.

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From the club's public relations battle to the platform support in the circle of friends, both parties involved in the competition are doing everything they can to launch a public opinion offensive. At the same time, they have also attracted the attention of fans and media from all over the world to the headquarters of the French football magazine in Paris.

According to the usual practice, the day after the French football magazine announces the results, the magazine will be officially launched for sale.

But before the magazine goes public, the winners must be photographed and interviewed in advance, which requires preparation in advance.

As a result, the whole world is paying attention to the movements of Erno, the editor-in-chief of the French football magazine.

But the French football magazines also clearly know the focus of media reporters and fans. No one knows where Erno has gone, is it to Milan?Or to Barcelona?
But in the No.15 round of La Liga, after Barcelona played away against Albacete, the well-informed Mundo Deportivo, which participated in the voting, suddenly published a piece of news, which once again attracted the attention of fans and media all over the world.

Barcelona booked a special Gulfstream G550 flight from Barcelona to Paris on the morning of December [-]th.

Such an inexplicable news once again detonated the world football.

A large number of European media flocked to dig into the news, and everyone knew what it meant.

Some media reporters even started to stay up late at Barcelona Airport just to catch first-hand news.

Many media are also scrambling to start discussions around this point, especially Gazzetta dello Sport.

They found that neither Shevchenko nor AC Milan had any unusual behavior on December [-], and Shevchenko was on vacation at his home in Lake Como.

There is no need to say more about what this means.

On the [-]th, near noon, Su Dong, dressed in a black suit, appeared at Barcelona Airport, accompanied by eight people, including club chairman Laporta, vice-chairman Sarah Martin, technical director Begiristain, and the club's press officer.

The media reporters who stayed up all night immediately rushed forward and surrounded them.

Both Su Dong and Barcelona are in a very good mood, but due to the confidentiality agreement, they did not reveal half of it to the outside world, but promised to hold a press conference after returning from Paris.

"In the No.16 round of La Liga, we will hold a special event before the home game." Laporta revealed this little "secret" with a smile from ear to ear.

This also let everyone at the scene know clearly that Su Dong won the award!

The fans who originally supported him, a heart hanging in the air, can finally come down.

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At three o'clock in the afternoon, Su Dong and Barcelona arrived in Paris by special plane.

At this time, the media reporters and fans in Paris have already received the news, and some people have even rushed to the airport to pick up the plane.

But on the tarmac, Su Dong and others were picked up by the reception car of the French football magazine.

When Su Dong appeared again, it was already eighteen o'clock at the beginning of the night.

On the wall of the reception hall on the first basement floor of Canal+ TV station, there is a huge picture frame of the cover of the French football magazine that Ronaldo, Zidane and Nedved, three recent European Golden Globe winners, hold goals in their hands.

But at the most conspicuous place at the entrance of the hall, there is a huge photo of Su Dong holding the European Ballon d'Or. On the table in front are two stacks of the latest issue of the French football magazine that will be officially launched tomorrow. This huge photo is on the cover.

Accompanied by two bodyguards, Su Dong appeared in the reception hall, but instead of going to the live broadcast, he went to an interview room first. The interviewer was Aguilar, a polling reporter from Spain's Mundo Sport.

The interview process was actually nothing to talk about, it was all official procedures, and Su Dong was very cooperative, but outside the interview, Aguilar revealed to Su Dong that it was actually very dangerous for him to win this time.

"Did you know? Out of [-] countries in Eastern Europe, Shevchenko has [-] first picks and one second pick, which is unbelievable, and you haven't got a single first pick, so you're [-] points behind."

Su Dong was stunned.

The ballot mechanism for the European Golden Globe Awards is that one ballot has five picks, and you can get five to one points in turn.

According to the information disclosed by Aguilar, in the votes of eighteen Eastern European countries alone, Shevchenko scored 89 points, while Su Dong was 39 points behind, that is, only [-] points. This gap is indeed too obvious.

It is no wonder that Aguilar would bombard the Eastern European voters in the media before, thinking that they were cheating.

Su Dong himself has enough confidence, no matter how poor his performance is, he won't have such a big gap with Shevchenko, right?Could it be that the many goals he scored and the championships he won in the past year were fake?

But after thinking about it, his ability to stand here proves that his votes in the remaining thirty-odd countries are very good.

Otherwise, how could he win the award?

"Including Spain, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, England, Germany, etc., among the votes of these giants and powerful teams, except for Italy, you all got the first pick. This is the most convincing. Even if Italy gave the first pick to Shevchenko, the second pick will still be given to you."

"In the end, you surpassed Shevchenko by 38 points, and you were elected without any suspense!" Aguilar laughed.

When Su Dong heard this, he also let out a sigh of relief.

He knew that the competition for the Golden Globe was very dangerous, but he didn't know that there was such a competition behind it.

He had heard about the votes in Eastern Europe before, but he really didn't know that there was such a big influence behind it.

Just imagine, if I hadn't tried my best to perform in the past year and gained enough chips in non-Eastern European votes, I would have definitely failed in the selection of the Golden Globe Awards.

Just like Ronaldinho and Deco, they were only about [-] points behind Shevchenko in the Eastern European votes, but although they were ahead in the non-Eastern European votes, they failed to widen the gap, and finally fell behind Shevchenko in the total score.

So the final result of the top three Golden Globes is Su Dong, Shevchenko and Deco.

　Sorry for the late update!I will never step out of the room until the remaining two chapters are finished!It's useless for anyone to come!

　　
　
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