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Chapter 81 European Ballon d'Or Shortlist

Yin Jun performed a hat-trick and became the youngest hat-trick performer in the 11-year history of the Premier League. It was even just two days away from tying Alan Shearer's record as the youngest hat-trick performer in England's top league and becoming the country's first hat-trick performer. Before the arrival of the team match day, the most shocking news in world football.

At home, Chinese fans have gone completely crazy with joy.

Yin Jun has been unable to get a chance to play at Manchester United for a long time, which makes many domestic fans worry.Later, Yin Jun got the chance to play, and the fans began to worry that Yin Jun would not be able to score goals and perform well at Manchester United.

However, Yin Jun shattered the dark clouds in everyone's hearts with his continuous highlight performance.

He first performed well in the Champions League, with 3 goals and 2 assists in 3 games, becoming the number one contributor to Manchester United's top spot in the group after three rounds of the group stage.

In the Premier League, although Yin Jun failed to score in the first two games, in the third game, he staged a hat-trick that shocked the world and became the youngest hat-trick performer in the history of the Premier League. He even nearly broke the record held by England's legendary striker Alan Shearer as the youngest player to perform a hat-trick in England's top flight.

Yin Jun's performance after joining Manchester United can be said to be true to that sentence: three years without flying, one soars to the sky, three years without making a blockbuster!
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Becoming the youngest player in Premier League history to perform a hat-trick was not the most shocking thing about Yin Jun during this period, because on the second day, at noon on October 10, local time in Europe, a piece of news really shocked the world The football world was stunned.

欧洲当地时间2002年10月8日巴黎消息，由《法国足球》杂志的所有编辑、记者用匿名投票的方式结束“海选”出的2002年金球奖50人候选名单终于正式公布。

Most of the players in this list are players who have played for the big European clubs, and these players are pivotal figures in their respective clubs.

As the overlord of the Premier League, although Manchester United was empty of the four major players last season, there are still many players in the 50-man squad, including the number one star Beckham in the team, the main striker Ruud van Nistelrooy, the England national Rio Ferdinand, the backbone of the team's defense, and the young midfielder-Yin Jun, a talented young man from China!

As a top European club, 4 people were selected for this 50-man squad, and the results are not too outstanding.

La Liga giants Real Madrid are the most selected in this list of 50 people. Galacticos have Ronaldo, Zidane, Figo, Raul, Robert Kroos, Iker Casillas, Makelele and other 7 people selected.

What really shocked and surprised people was Yin Jun's selection!
However, considering Yin Jun’s miraculous performance in 3 games with 5 goals and 1 assist during the World Cup, he almost single-handedly overwhelmed the subsequent World Cup runner-up Turkey to advance to the knockout stage of the World Cup, and Yin Jun’s outstanding performance after joining Manchester United: Premier League 3 3 goals and 1 assist in 3 games in the Champions League, 2 goals and 3 assists in [-] games in the Champions League, this is not so surprising.

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Yin Jun is not an Asian player selected for this 50-man squad. Japanese player Junichi Inamoto, who plays for Fulham in the Premier League, and Korean player Xue Qixuan, who plays for Anderlecht, are also shortlisted at the same time.

The three of them are also all players registered in the AFC who can be selected for this 50-man roster, and they happen to be one from each of China, Japan and South Korea.

In fact, Yin Jun and the others were able to be shortlisted for this list, thanks to the change in the selection rules of the European Golden Globe Awards.This top award in world football, which was born 46 years ago, was originally only for European players before 1994, and it was not expanded to players who played for European clubs until 1995.

If it was eight years ago, even a non-European player like Yin Jun, no matter how good his performance was, would not have been selected for this big list.

According to the rules formulated by "French Football", 52 media journalists from Europe will be judged, and each judge can list 5 names, and the players included will get 5-1 points according to the order of ranking.Accumulate the scores of each player, and the player with the highest score will win the "Golden Globe Award" of the year.

In other words, according to the current award rules, the theoretical maximum score for this award is 260 points!
Prior to this, Zidane had the highest score in this award. The French midfielder won 1998 of the 52 votes because he led the French team to the World Cup in 50. There are 5 votes for points and 45 vote for 4 points, and a high score of 4 points!

According to this year's award rules, the final vote will be held on December 12.

Although everyone knows that it is impossible for Yin Jun to win this year's European Ballon d'Or, and it is impossible for him to even enter the top ten, but he can be selected as a candidate for this top football award comparable to the World Footballer of the Year. A Chinese pioneer.When the news spread back to China, countless Chinese fans rejoiced, and it felt like Chinese New Year.

In foreign countries, although most football players were surprised that Yin Jun could be selected for this list, they did not find it incomprehensible.On the one hand, Yin Jun's performance in the World Cup is indeed outstanding, which can be called a phenomenon; Gained a firm foothold, and even shocked the world with a hat-trick in the Premier League, becoming the youngest player in the history of the Premier League to perform a hat-trick.This undoubtedly created a wave of presence in the minds of these 52 media reporters from Europe.

For a time, Yin Jun's reputation increased significantly.

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With the arrival of the national team match day, Yin Jun still stayed at the Manchester United club and did not rush back to China.Because the new Chinese national team has not yet been established.

Milu originally intended to continue to serve as the coach of the national team, but after bargaining with the Football Association, he finally chose to give up.

And so far, the head coach of the Chinese men's football team is still vacant, and the Football Association is actively looking for targets around the world.

Although the Olympic team was qualifying for the Athens Olympics during this period, Yin Jun was not recruited by the coach of the Olympic team despite Yin Jun's tricks.

This also allowed Yin Jun to stay at the Carrington training base to rest during the national team match day.This is very rare for him.

(End of this chapter)