host must win

Chapter 46 The Best Eleven

There is no doubt about the emergence of the Golden Boot and Silver Boot awards. Everyone speaks by the number of goals scored, but some other awards are a bit weird.

For example, the most entertaining team in this World Cup is South Korea, one of the hosts.In the selection of this award, the South Korean team's vote rate can be called a crushing advantage.A total of 365619 fans from all over the world participated in the voting. Among the six candidate teams of Brazil, Germany, South Korea, Turkey, Ireland and Senegal, the host South Korean team finally won with 226636 votes, 61% of the votes.

The South Korean team's performance in this World Cup is indeed very good, but it is still a bit controversial to say that it is the most entertaining team.They won such a high vote rate, in addition to some fans' recognition of their performance, there are also some dark meanings.After all, the Koreans let the world see how black whistle can be blackened in the World Cup.

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In addition to the unexpected results of the most entertaining team selection, the results of the World Cup Golden Globe Awards are also surprising, because the alien Ronaldo, who won the Golden Boot and created many records, did not win the final World Cup gold medal. The ball award, this award was taken away by the final runner-up, Germany's goalkeeper Kahn.

When FIFA announced the result on July 7, there was an uproar in many media, saying that the voting result was "surprising", and some media even sensationalized, throwing out such things as "German sponsor Adidas rigged the election", "and Like Ronaldo in 2, FIFA specially took this award to comfort the losers" and other strange talks.

In fact, as long as you know a little about the voting process, you will not be too surprised by this result.Voters are global journalists covering the final two races.The three or four finals will be held on June 6. The reporters who voted on this day certainly would not have thought that Ronaldo would score two goals the next day.Judging from the notice issued by FIFA, the voting time for journalists covering the final on June 29 is also before the game.

Judging from the performance before the final, Kahn is more decisive than Ronaldo, and it is reasonable to get the most votes.

The voting procedure in 1998 was the same. Before the final, Ronaldo scored 4 goals and assisted 3 times. It is reasonable to be elected as the "Golden Globe Award". Who would have thought that he would be devastated in the final?
In terms of fairness, it is of course more appropriate to select the "Golden Globe Award" after the final, but FIFA also has its own difficulties.On the night of the finals, reporters were too busy writing articles to vote.If the voting takes place the day after the final, many journalists have already returned home, and the voting coverage will inevitably be affected.

Regarding this result, Ronaldo must be very depressed, because his defeated player actually took away his Golden Globe Award, who can bear it?
However, Ronaldo has forgotten that in France four years ago, another bald man probably had the same thoughts as him.

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It wasn't just Ronaldo who felt depressed, many Brazilian players were a little unhappy after the final.

When Brazil won the trophy for the fifth time, everyone present was celebrating.After the hustle and bustle, many Brazilian players hope to find the football of this game as a souvenir.But it wasn't until this time that everyone realized that the ball had been preempted.And this person is the "bald" referee Collina.

As the referee of the game, Collina performed very well on the court and did not abuse his power at all, but after the game, he immediately used his power for personal gain.

Many TV viewers should still remember this scene: after Collina blew the final whistle, he ran straight to the "Flying Fire Meteor" used in the final and was the first to "snatch" it.

After the game, Blatter awarded medals to the referees, including Collina.But even when accepting the award, Collina did not forget to hold his "Flying Fire Meteor" tightly, for fear that others would snatch it away.

After the game, when Collina was interviewed by the reporter, he still hugged the "Flying Fire Meteor" vigorously. He smiled and said: "I want to keep this ball as a permanent memorial. The referee's reward for such an important game."

Collina is happy, but the Brazilian players who also want to get the ball are probably very depressed.

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Compared with the little depression of Ronaldo and his Brazilian teammates, Yin Jun, who has returned to China early, has been very happy these two days.Because in addition to winning the World Cup Silver Boot, Yin Jun was also told that he was also selected as the best 11 in this World Cup.

Also on July 7, FIFA announced the best 2 team for this World Cup. Yin Jun was selected again, and his position is right midfielder.

This result is still somewhat unexpected, but it is also expected.Because the final best 11-man lineup was selected from the 16-man All-Star lineup.

And in the 16-man All-Star roster, Yin Jun is the only one who plays right midfielder in the 5-man midfield!
In the 442 formation selected by FIFA, the other three midfielders selected as the best 11 are Ballack of the German team and Rivaldo and Ronaldinho of the Brazilian team!
The Koreans were very unhappy with this result, they believed that Yin Jun "stealed" Yoo Sang-chul's best team position.But they never thought that they would steal more things in this World Cup.

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The dust of the World Cup has settled. Although the performance of the Chinese team is not satisfactory, but for Yin Jun personally, it can be called a bumper harvest. He has won a silver boot and a position in the best team in a row.

It really complied with that sentence: the team lost, but the individual won!

The harvest of the two major awards gave the "host must win" system an upgrade, and Yin Jun also passed the novice period.

After the "host must win" system was upgraded, two new functions were unlocked, one of which was to unlock the reputation system, and the other was to unlock the system mall.

These two new functions complement each other. Yin Jun can gain system prestige through certain awards he has won, and then use the system prestige to purchase items in the system mall.

In addition to a bumper harvest of personal honors and unlocking new functions of the system, Yin Jun also got a bumper harvest in real life: a bumper harvest of money!

After winning the silver boots and entering the best lineup, several brands that had previously negotiated with Yin Jun quickly reached a cooperation agreement with Yin Jun.And through the 7 new contracts signed, as well as the previous contract with Anta, Yin Jun, who has 8 endorsement contracts, has only advertising revenue in one year, which has exceeded 1000 million!
And, this is after-tax income!
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