Chapter 589 Golden Globe Awards Opening

On December 3, 2018, the Grand Palais in Paris was packed with stars, and football stars and celebrities from all over the world gathered together to announce the final winner of the European Ballon d'Or.

The Ballon d'Or began in 1956 and is an award issued by the magazine "France Football". Before 1994, only players of European nationality were eligible for the selection. In 1995, it was adjusted to players playing for UEFA clubs. In 2007, it was adjusted again, and the selection objects were relaxed to players from all over the world.

Unlike the World Footballer of the Year selected by FIFA, the judges invited by the Ballon d'Or are all well-known professional football journalists. On the surface, compared with the judges of FIFA, they are all captains and coaches of various national teams, making the Ballon d'Or more valuable.

Because from the audience's point of view, having professional football journalists as judges makes the entire selection process more neutral, not to mention that the inheritance of the Ballon d'Or is also longer than that of the World Footballer of the Year.

Earlier, a message appeared on the Weibo of Barcelona ​​Vite, indicating that the support rate of Messi, the star player of their team, accounted for 40% of the 400,000 votes, surpassing the 39% of the second place Li Qing.

In the latest message, Messi's data has reached 47%, so who will win this year's Golden Ball Award has attracted attention from all parties.

As the organizer of the Golden Ball Award selection, the official "France Football" has updated the number of votes of each player in the Golden Ball Award candidate from low to high a few hours ago.

After the update of the Golden Ball Award ranking to the 11th place, the suspense mode was immediately turned on. After a hot dance, the Golden Ball Award Ceremony officially began.

Tonight's award ceremony was really full of people, with stars such as Raul and Carlos all present, while Ronaldo and Messi, like the last World Footballer Award Ceremony, continued to be absent from tonight's award ceremony.

Ronaldo and Messi's absence was claimed to be due to personal reasons, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that the truth is not that simple, especially when Barcelona had previously promoted Messi with great fanfare.

French legend Guirano is the host of tonight's Ballon d'Or ceremony. The first thing to be announced at tonight's ceremony is the results of the Kopa Award.

Last March, the first French player to win the Ballon d'Or, Raymond Kopa, passed away. In order to remember this great French football star forever, "France Football" magazine specially established the "Kopa Award" in this year's Ballon d'Or.

The Kopa Award is used to reward the best player under the age of 21 in the European arena. This initiative of "France Football" allows the world to appreciate their good intentions.

Moreover, this year's Kopa Award judges are composed of 33 previous winners of the Ballon d'Or. Although Ronaldo and Messi were not present, their votes were handed over to their teammates who were present tonight.

Off the field, Li Qing and his national team teammate Kane were sitting together and whispering. Kane was the only English player next to Li Qing for the Ballon d'Or tonight.

Since Owen, who was still playing for Liverpool at the time, defeated many stars such as Raul and Kahn and won the Ballon d'Or in 2001, no English player has been able to get his hands on the Ballon d'Or.

And among the English players who have won the Ballon d'Or before, even if the players who play in England are counted, there are not many who have won the European Ballon d'Or, and among them, there are great players like Bobby Charlton in ancient times.

Kane and Li Qing are the only fig leaf that supports England, the birthplace of football, even though many of the candidates present tonight are from the Premier League.

"Li, do you think there will be a show today?" Kane sat around bored and looked around. He attended the ceremony tonight just to accompany the prince to study, because everyone knew that Kane could not win the award, and Li Qing was the favorite to win the championship.

"Just look at who will win the next two awards, and you will know." Li Qing smiled playfully, and Kane was puzzled.

Kane knew that in addition to the newly established Copa Award, there was also a Women's Ballon d'Or Award for the Ballon d'Or tonight, but what did this have to do with the final winner of the Ballon d'Or tonight?

Just as he was thinking, the host on the stage had announced that Mbappe won the first Copa Award. The Paris star held up the Copa Award trophy, waved to the audience, and then cooperated with the on-site DJ to perform an impromptu performance.

Mbappe's father and brother, as well as the French national coach Deschamps, all came to the award ceremony and were interviewed by the host after the French star won the award. Deschamps talked about his expectations for Mbappe's future on the stage.

"Li, why are they all looking at you when they are being interviewed?" Kane looked puzzled.

He could understand that Mbappe looked at Li Qing after winning the award. After all, Li Qing was also one of the candidates for this award. Mbappe looked at Li Qing after winning the award, which was a kind of showing off, but what was Deschamps's?

Li Qing smiled without saying a word. It seemed that the French national team coach and the star player had a lot of resentment towards him. He only won a Copa Award. People who didn't know would think that he won the Ballon d'Or!

Then the award ceremony entered the moment of revealing the answer to the Ballon d'Or. Just before the top ten rankings of the Ballon d'Or were updated, a VCR was played on the scene, reviewing the highlights of these ten stars in the past year.

Li Qing, Ronaldo, Messi, Kane, De Bruyne, Modric, Varane, Salah, Mbappe, and Hazard appeared on the screen one after another.

Finally, the answer began to be revealed. In the final list of ten players, the tenth place was the English star Harry Kane who sat next to Li Qing. The ninth place was the Belgian star De Bruyne, and the eighth place was also the Belgian Hazard.

"Alas..." Kane was a little disappointed. Since he chose to come, of course he still had some unrealistic expectations in his heart, but he was not too disappointed with this ranking.

In addition to the national team's performance, Kane's Tottenham team is really not good enough. The league is as unstable as ever. This year's Champions League will not be known until the last round, so this ranking is already considered to be taking care of him.

After a short break, the Golden Globe continued to announce the seventh to fifth candidates. The seventh place was Croatian midfielder core Modric, and the sixth place was Li Qing's teammate Egyptian star Salah.

When the name of the fifth star was announced, most of the stadium exclaimed in disbelief.

Leo Messi, the Argentine superstar, only got fifth place. Except for Li Qing, almost everyone in the stadium looked at each other in disbelief.

At this time, the winner of the 2018 Women's Ballon d'Or was announced. Adah Gebery, a Norwegian player who plays for Lyon, became the first winner of the Women's Ballon d'Or.

Then, the award ceremony reached its climax, and a VCR was played on the scene. Everyone knew that the person in the next picture would be the final winner of the Ballon d'Or tonight.