Chapter 298 The Man Who Puts Pressure on Messi

Qing saw the news published on the official website of "France Football" in the lounge of the training base. He was a little unbelievable. He pinched Arnold's thigh meat hard.

Arnold shouted in pain: "Li, are you sick? Why are you pinching my thigh?"

"I can't believe that I am one of the top three players in the European Golden Ball!"

Arnold said unhappily: "Why don't you pinch yourself?"

"I'm afraid of pain."

"..."

Arnold wanted to teach Li Qing a lesson, but when he thought of Li Qing's superb fighting skills, he immediately became timid.

"Li, Alexander, what are you doing?"

At this time, Firmino asked curiously.

"Li became the top three players in the European Golden Ball."

Arnold pointed at Li Qing and said.

His voice was not loud, but there were still many people in the lounge. In a relatively quiet environment, he could hear it very clearly. There was an uproar: "Wow-"

"What?"

There were no less than five people who reacted like this.

"Are you so surprised that I'm the third in the world?"

To be honest, Li Qing was a little unhappy with his teammates' reactions. As a real thigh-level player, how could he not be the third in the world?

If he wasn't less famous than Messi, he might even surpass Messi and become the second!

In the whole of 2017, apart from the glory of the whole team, who performed better than him?

Captain Henderson smiled and patted Li Qing on the shoulder: "We are not surprised, but happy for you. You are... the top three in the world in our team!"

"Humph! This time next year, I want to be the world's number one!"

Li Qing held his head high, with a surging momentum.

No one in the Liverpool team doubted it, because Li Qing's performance was so outstanding. As long as he maintained the current state and then showed a stable performance in the World Cup in Russia next year, he would not need the World Cup championship, even if he entered the top eight, he might win the most valuable European Golden Ball Award in the world football today!

"Come on! We all believe in you!"

Firmino raised his clenched fists towards Li Qing.

After that, he added: "Remember to teach me the key to the final shot."

The World Cup in Russia is coming in half a year, and he is not the only choice for the center position.

As he was in the top three of the European Golden Ball, Li Qing's training condition in the afternoon was particularly good, the best in the team. Head coach Klopp and his assistants were full of confidence in the upcoming Merseyside Derby.

What was a little worrying was that the hot game might cause Li Qing to get injured. As Liverpool's best player, Li Qing would definitely be the focus of Everton's defensive players. At that time... it would be troublesome...

However, with Li Qing's flexibility and anticipation of danger, there should be no problem.

That night, the European Golden Ball, which was re-established by "France Football", was held at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the headquarters. Although the winner of the European Golden Ball was not finally announced, the powerful European mainstream media already knew that the final winner was Real Madrid No. 7 Cristiano Ronaldo.

Why?

Because only C Ronaldo has VIP information on Emirates Airlines, which he endorses, and the destination... is Paris, France!

Other competitors Messi and Li Qing have no news of air travel, which means that the only possibility of winning is C Ronaldo.

In addition, C Ronaldo's team glory in 2017 is stronger than Messi and Li Qing, so winning becomes inevitable.

Li Qing received an invitation from the top management of France Football magazine, but tomorrow is the Merseyside Derby, and he doesn't want to be distracted by it, so he apologized.

Of course, in the final analysis, he didn't become the Golden Ball winner, otherwise he would have been there anyway!

It's a bit cheap, but there's no other way.

Didn't Messi, the other person with the highest voice, not go?

The guest of honor for the European Golden Ball Award is Ronaldo, the youngest winner of this honor. Yes, it's Ronaldo, who dominates the world football, known as Ronaldo!

Witnessed by Real Madrid boss Florentino, legendary star Raul, Portugal coach Fernando Santos and Ronaldo's family, Ronaldo took over the Golden Ball trophy symbolizing the European Golden Ball Award, and this trophy is also the fifth Golden Ball trophy in his career, tying Messi.

Li Qing watched the live broadcast with his teammates in the hotel where he stayed. Looking at Ronaldo giving his acceptance speech, he clenched his fists and whispered to himself: "This time next year, the focus of the world... will only be me!"

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It was expected that Ronaldo would be the winner of the 2017 European Ballon d'Or. The same was true for Messi. As one of the best players in the world today and the most recognized player with the best skills, he and Ronaldo have become the two prides in the football world. Since 2007, the two have been selected in the top three of the Ballon d'Or/World Footballer of the Year/FIFA Ballon d'Or (starting in 2010 and ending in 2016) for 11 years.

Since 2011, Ronaldo and Messi have taken turns to be the winners. As of 2017, they have won five European Ballon d'Ors respectively!

In the 11 consecutive years of being in the top three, only the glorious Kaka won the title in 2007.

Back to the point, Messi's selection is no surprise, just like Ronaldo's selection. What is surprising is the final ranking of Li Qing, who is only 16 years old!

The ranking of the voice is actually somewhat different, or it can be said that the ranking announced at the time may be different from the actual ranking, but the final ranking announced shows that Li Qing is indeed ranked third!

According to the voting scores of major authoritative journalists around the world, except for Cristiano Ronaldo who is far ahead, Li Qing is not far behind Messi.

Cristiano Ronaldo has 946 points, Messi has 522 points, and Li Qing has 513 points.

The voting mechanism of the European Ballon d'Or is very transparent. Every professional football journalist in the world with voting rights can cast five votes. The first vote gets 5 points, the second vote gets 4 points, the third vote gets 3 points, the fourth vote gets 2 points, and the last vote gets 1 point. In other words, Li Qing, who is nine points behind Messi, actually lost by a very small score.

The surprise comes from this!

The English media, fans and the Chinese media, fans are very depressed about this. If any two professional journalists reversed the voting order during the voting process, Li Qing would have a good chance of overturning Messi and becoming the second place in the 2017 European Ballon d'Or.

Messi's media reports naturally attracted his attention. His performance was definitely out of the European Golden Ball Award, but everyone has luck. As a recognized world-class star, Messi did not think that his performance was worse than Ronaldo, but the honor was inferior to Ronaldo, just like the two FIFA Golden Ball Awards in 2010 and 2013 that should have belonged to Sneijder and Ribery. There was controversy, but... he deserved it!

He was a little disappointed when he was sure that the winner of the European Golden Ball Award was Ronaldo. What made him frown was the specific ranking. The sixteen-year-old kid Li Qing was only 9 points less than him!

Such a gap is really amazing!

If he is not careful, he can only fall to third place.

He is only 30 years old this year and in good shape!

So Messi felt the huge pressure from Li Qing. Ronaldo is already 32 years old this year, and it is very likely that he will not be able to do it by then. Therefore, the competition for the European Golden Ball Award and the World Footballer of the Year is between him and Li Qing.

As for Neymar, he believes that Neymar, who dares not face reality, can become his opponent.