Chapter 270 Controversy over the World Footballer of the Year Ranking

Li Qing returned to his seat, and the host Elba returned to the center of the stage, focusing all his attention on himself.

Mane gave Li Qing a thumbs up: "Li, I believe you can definitely win the World Footballer of the Year next year!"

"I believe it too."

Head coach Klopp patted Li Qing on the shoulder and said firmly.

Henderson's seat was far away, so he just made an encouraging gesture and didn't say anything.

Unexpectedly, Chelsea star Hazard, who was sitting in the back row, patted Li Qing on the right shoulder and gave a thumbs up: "Li, I'm optimistic about you too!"

The 2017 FIFA Awards Ceremony continued. The second award was the best men's football coach of the year. Klopp, who was sitting next to Li Qing, sat up straight and focused.

In fact, Klopp didn't have any particularly big advantages, even if he led Liverpool to win the first league championship since the establishment of the Premier League.

Zidane led Real Madrid to win the league championship and the Champions League last season. Juventus coached by Allegri had the same domestic championship as Liverpool, but with an additional Champions League runner-up.

No matter from which angle, Klopp has no chance of being elected.

In the end, Zidane was undisputedly elected as the best coach of the year.

"Ah~"

Klopp sighed, and Li Qing covered his mouth beside him and said: "Uncle Jurgen, don't be discouraged, believe me, you will definitely be the best coach of the year at this time next year."

"I think so too." Klopp nodded firmly.

The guest in charge of the award was Ranieri, who led Leicester City to win the first league championship in team history. He handed the trophy symbolizing the best men's football coach of the year to Zidane.

The third award was the newly added goalkeeper of the year this year. The 39-year-old veteran Buffon beat Neuer and Navas to be elected.

Then a warm scene of far more than football on the football field was played on the spot, which led to the fourth award of the award ceremony-the best fan of the year.

This award was finally won by the fans of the Scottish Premier League Celtic.

The process went very quickly. Wegman, who led the Dutch women's football team to win the European Cup, won the Women's Football Coach of the Year. The Fair Play Award followed closely. This award was given to Francis Cone, the Togolese striker who rescued the opponent's players in the first time on the field.

At this time, the 2017 FIFA Awards Ceremony can be said to have come to the end.

The FIFA Team of the Year appeared at the awards ceremony as the seventh award. The official formation was 433, with goalkeeper Buffon, defenders Marcelo, Ramos, Bonucci and Alves, midfielders Modric, Toni Kroos and Iniesta, and forwards Neymar, Ronaldo and Messi.

Obviously, this team of the year is full of controversy, especially from the invited Premier League players, who were immediately in an uproar.

The English and Chinese media were outraged. Let's not talk about the inherent controversy in other positions. After all, there are a thousand Hamlets. But it's a bit unreasonable that Li Qing was not selected, so the live director's close-up shot was first given to Li Qing holding the Puskas Award.

The fans sitting in front of the TV clearly saw that Li Qing's young face had an obvious frown. He scored 31 goals and 9 assists in 15 Premier League games last season, 10 goals and 2 assists in 5 FA Cup games, 15 goals and 5 assists in five World Youth Championships, 22 goals and 5 assists in 9 rounds of the Premier League in the 2017-2018 season, and 6 goals and 3 assists in 3 Champions League games.

Ronaldo and Messi occupy the two best striker positions undisputedly, because Ronaldo is the top scorer in the Champions League and Messi is the top scorer in La Liga. The question is, what is Neymar's virtue and ability?

The total number of goals scored in the whole season was only 13, plus 11 assists, which was a total of 24 goals, far from Li Qing's 40 goals in the first half of the season. In addition, Li Qing helped Liverpool win the first league championship since the establishment of the Premier League, while Neymar only won one Spanish King's Cup championship in Barcelona last season.

Whether it is the contribution value within the team or the glory of the whole team, there is no way to compare with Li Qing. It is precisely under this situation that the election made the media all over the world feel puzzled.

He Wei, the commentator of Tianchao 5, sarcastically said: "How can this be the best lineup in the world? It is obviously the best lineup in La Liga!"

Eleven starting positions, excluding Neymar who transferred to Paris Saint-Germain, have seven players playing in La Liga, or more precisely, playing for Real Madrid and Barcelona.

How can such a world's best lineup be convincing?

The English media are not convinced, and the German media are also not convinced. In their view, Lewandowski, who plays for Bayern, is fully capable of competing for a position as the world's best striker.

Sky TV commentator Andy Gray shook his head and said, "The FIFA Team of the Year is as controversial as usual, but this year it is even more controversial."

The close-up shot given by the on-site director did not last too long, and soon switched to other players on the scene. Li Qing, who was very unhappy, felt extremely depressed. He immediately took out his mobile phone and bombarded the FIFA Team of the Year on Instagram and Twitter.

The 2017 FIFA Awards Ceremony was in an uproar. Elba, the guest host, showed his skills. His talk show immediately shifted everyone's attention to the eighth award, which was also the penultimate award of the awards ceremony, the Best Women's Football Player of the Year.

The most down-to-earth term is - World Footballer of the Year.

The striker Martens, who led the Dutch women's football team to win the European Cup, deservedly won this award.

With the FIFA World Player of the Year being chosen, the awards ceremony also came to the finale.

FIFA World Player of the Year!

After Elba's words, accompanied by exciting background music and a video, the big screen showed the final three candidates: Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar.

There was no surprise in the FIFA World Player of the Year. Cristiano Ronaldo, who led Real Madrid to become the first team to defend the Champions League since the reform of the Champions League, became the new FIFA World Player of the Year.

It's just that the ranking of the second and third places is very puzzling. Messi and Neymar, who have neither the Champions League nor the league championship titles, were elected respectively. Li Qing, who was considered by the English media to have the potential to hit the third place, was directly ranked twelfth, even behind Harry Kane.

Li Qing helped Liverpool win the first Premier League championship since the establishment of the Premier League in the first half of 2017, and also won an FA Cup and a World Youth Championship. He was the best newcomer and best player in the Premier League in the 2016-2017 season.

Both personal and team honors beat Messi and Neymar!

Maybe Li Qing can't be compared with Messi, but Neymar can still kill him easily, so those fans who support Li Qing think that FIFA is getting more and more black.

So many group honors and star-studded personal data can't beat Neymar, what does it mean?

Even a fool can think of it.

The ranking of the World Footballer of the Year is destined to be controversial!

The Italian and German media are obviously very angry. Juventus Dybala, Bayern Lewandowski, which one is not better than Neymar?

Li Qing, the person involved, became calm after a short period of anger, and even deleted the INS and Twitter that he sent out, because in his opinion, the World Footballer of the Year selection is a joke, and there is no use in bombarding FIFA.

According to FIFA's character, they will continue to do their own thing.

Compared with the professional selection team of the European Golden Ball Award, the World Footballer of the Year selection has a big bug. The selection vote is decided by four parties, each accounting for 25%, namely the captains of various countries or regions, the head coach, the media representatives and the public participating in the vote.

Apart from the media representatives, the other three lack authority or are prone to inside information, which often leads to scandals such as errors in voting statistics for national team captains and head coaches.