The strongest winger

Chapter 704 Hat-trick World Footballer

The FIFA Annual Awards Ceremony, which was founded in 1991, is now in its 18th year. This year’s FIFA Annual Awards Ceremony has been fine-tuned, and for the first time, the number of final selections for Mr. and Miss World Football has been increased from three candidates to five candidates.

The five candidates previously announced by FIFA in December are: Chelsea's Aiello (China), Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), AC Milan's Kaka (Brazil), Liverpool's Torres (Spain), Barcelona's Messi (Argentina)

Although the FIFA annual awards ceremony is held at [-] o'clock local time in Switzerland, which is [-] o'clock in the morning of BJ time, the domestic fans are still enthusiastic, and they want to witness the birth of a new record! !
Ronaldo in 1996 and 1997, Ronaldinho in 2004 and 2005, all won the honor of World Footballer consecutively.

However, Ai Luo won the honor of World Footballer in 2006 and 2007 consecutively.

Throughout the past 2008, Aiello's contributions are obvious to all. Except for the 2008 Community Shield, which he missed because of the Olympics, he led Chelsea to win all the championships that could be won. At the end of last year, he helped Chelsea win the Club World Cup in Yokohama.

This is Chelsea's seventh championship across the year, a unique existence in the entire world of football!

Therefore, Aiello will most likely become the first active player to win the World Footballer of the Year for three consecutive years since the establishment of FIFA. At the same time, the 23-year-old may also be the youngest winner of the World Footballer of the Year for three consecutive years!
Everything increases the enthusiasm of Chinese fans.

Especially female fans from China.

Among the top five candidates for the World Footballer of the Year this year, except for Messi who is not as tall, rich and handsome, Aiello, Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo and Torres are rare handsome men in world football. For these female fans who like good-looking male stars, it is a grand event not to be missed.

Of course, the reason why many Chinese football fans were able to attract attention was the bombing reports of CCTV for half a month, which let every viewer who watched CCAV-5 know that at 2009 o'clock in the morning on January 1, 13, a Chinese person would set a new world football record.

These days, the Chinese media is one of the most active and happy media in the world. From London to Zurich, it is to hear all kinds of voices supporting Ai Luo.

However, the news they received did not disappoint them. Basically every head coach of the European national team interviewed supported Aiello very much. Even the head coach of the Spanish national team, Bosque, who had just won the European Cup, made a public statement to vote for Aiello, which made them very excited.

Second, is the English media.

The Premier League can now be said to be the best league in the world. In the last four seasons, at least two teams have entered the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League. Last year, three Premier League teams entered the semi-finals of the Champions League, creating a new history of the Champions League. The final match between Manchester United and Chelsea has also become the history of the Premier League!
In addition, three of the candidates shortlisted for the final five are from the Premier League, which is enough to make the British media proud.

Aiello and Cristiano Ronaldo are currently the two most appealing players in the world. If nothing else, Aiello is the first and Cristiano Ronaldo is the second.

This is a total endorsement of the Premier League!

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At around 07:30 local time in Switzerland, Aiello followed the team's coach Mourinho, captain Terry and CEO Kenyon to appear at the Zurich Opera House at the FIFA Annual Awards Ceremony.

Immediately, journalists from all major media around the world waiting at the entrance of the opera house picked up their cameras.

Wearing a well-designed suit by Versace, coupled with a resolute face with sharp water chestnut angles, it makes the whole person extremely handsome and mighty.

That's right!Ai Luo is the most important person that this group of reporters have to wait for! !
None of the journalists who came to the scene were ignorant, unless FIFA did something shady, then Ai Luo's third World Footballer of the Year would have nowhere to escape!
To be able to interview Aiello before the awards show will be the scoop!
There will be no problems with promotion and salary increase, winning and marrying Bai Fumei, and reaching the pinnacle of life.

But the premise is... to be able to interview Ai Luo.

Ai Luo, who followed the head coach on the red carpet and entered the opera house, did not accept any media interviews, just smiled and waved all the way, and then entered the inner hall.

Ai Luo has come here for the third consecutive year, and it may be the third consecutive year that he has successfully preached here, and he is in a very happy mood.

At the corner of the inner hall, he saw Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka chatting, he turned his head to say hello to coach Mourinho, captain Terry and CEO Kenyon, and walked over.

Undoubtedly, three of the five candidates met and chatted together, which naturally attracted the attention of the media entering the infield. The light of focus was always directed at this place. In addition, the three of them were handsome guys that are rare in world football. The photos they took could be put on websites or newspapers without any modification at all.

This shows how handsome the three are.

Not long after, the Spanish golden boy Torres followed the head coach Benitez and walked in.

The three handsome men became the four handsome men.

The media attracted becomes more...

If the on-site director has been confessing the camera here, TV viewers don't know why they thought it was the annual Oscar awards ceremony.

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The most watched FIFA annual award ceremony is naturally the World Player of the Year, so it will be announced at the end.

The first to be announced was the Most Improved Award, which was won by Palestine, which was in civil war. In addition, the Fair Play Award was jointly won by Turkey and Armenia, and the Special Chairman's Award was won by the US Women's Football Team.

Since 2008 is a plural year, not the year of the World Youth Championship, there are no awards for the World Youth Championship and the World Junior Championship.

Before the World Footballer of the Year, Miss World Football was presented, which was won by Brazilian star Marta. This is the third consecutive year that she has won this honor. She is a well-deserved leader in women's football in the world today.

Immediately, it was finally the finale - the awarding session of the World Footballer of the Year.

Everyone's attention was on the male and female hosts. After their brief introductions, the big screen played the highlights of the five candidates in turn.

Both the guests who came to the scene and the fans sitting in front of the TV began to feel nervous, especially the fans from China.

Shen Fangjian, a CCTV commentator who came to the scene, said nervously: "Now that the highlight reel is finished, the presenter of this year's World Footballer of the Year will be unveiled, which means that the final winner of the World Footballer of the Year will be unveiled. Will it be Aiello?"

The guest of this year's World Footballer of the Year award is Pele.

Duan Xuan, who was far away in the BJ studio, saw Pele and made a joke: "Pelé is a legendary star in the last century. He led the Brazilian national team to three World Cup championships. Does it mean that Chinese player Aiello will win the World Footballer of the Year for the third time in a row?"

Hearing Duan Xuan's words, the Chinese fans sitting in front of the TV or computer felt a sense of peace of mind, and the previous tension disappeared a lot.

At the same time, the five sitting in the first row, Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, Aiello, Torres and Kaka, became inexplicably nervous.

The on-site director also very interestingly gave the shot here.

From Cristiano Ronaldo, who is sitting on the far left, to Kaka, who is sitting on the far right, it is worth mentioning that he stayed on Aiello for an extra second.

The male host handed over the next stage to Bailey in a few words, because he was standing at the podium with a sealed envelope in his hand.

Inside is the card of the upcoming World Footballer of the Year winner.

Although Ai Luo has won the World Footballer for two consecutive years, and this year is the biggest favorite, he still feels sincerely nervous. You must know that winning the World Footballer for three consecutive years will be a record in world football. It can be said... a record that is difficult to replicate!

Thinking of this, Ai Luo swallowed, and turned his attention to Bailey.

At this time, Bailey had finished all his nonsense and opened the sealed envelope.

At this moment, the commentators in the live studio became tense with the background music of the scene, and said in unison: "The suspense is about to arise..."

Bailey lowered his head, carefully pulled out the card with the names of the World Footballer of the Year winners from the envelope, glanced at it, and then raised his head meaningfully to look at the place where the five candidates were sitting.

"---Who will be the 2008 World Footballer of the Year?" The live male host stood aside and said excitedly.

The director returned the camera to Bailey again.

Everyone's attention also returned to Bailey with the camera.

But what everyone didn't expect was that he actually played tricks at this time, put the card with the name on it back on the speech platform, and then told a short story in a suspenseful tone: "I believe everyone present has guessed before the award ceremony. Will this year be Ai's third World Player of the Year? In the past year, he led Chelsea to win all possible championships, which is perfect! But..."

Countless people were taken aback by Bailey's tone. Could there be a change?
So there was a burst of exclamation at the scene.

Ai Luo's heart was hanging in his throat, shouldn't it be hanging?
The other four candidates were ecstatic in their hearts. Doesn't this... tone mean that Ai Luo has no hope?

Pele was very satisfied with the reaction on the spot, smiled, and continued: "Even if he didn't have any national team results in the 2008 competition year, he is still—"

Hearing this, the four candidates are like a roller coaster that climbed to the top and then fell down again...

"--Congratulations Ai! Won the 2008 World Footballer!!!"

(End of this chapter)