From the man behind the football king to the football king.

Chapter 407: World Footballer is released
On the eve of Manchester United's League Cup semi-final victory over Hull City, the 2016 FIFA World Player of the Year award ceremony was held at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich. Cristiano Ronaldo undoubtedly won the 2016 World Footballer of the Year and achieved European success. This is the second time since 2008 that he has won the Ballon d'Or and World Footballer of the Year awards.

Bruno did not achieve a comeback against Ronaldo in the more professional European Ballon d'Or. Naturally, it is even more difficult to shake Ronaldo in the selection of World Footballer, which pays more attention to fame.

Since parting ways with France Football magazine last year and the FIFA Ballon d'Or, which had been held for six years, withdrawing from the stage of history, FIFA has returned to the annual selection of the world's best players.

According to FIFA's latest voting rules, the voting weight of national team coaches and captains is 50%, and fans' online voting and votes from more than 200 media around the world account for 50%.

In terms of coaching, the 65-year-old Italian coach Claudio Ranieri led the unknown Leicester City to a miraculous victory in the Premier League and won the best men's football coach.

However, the current situation of this new FIFA best coach is very bad. The defending Premier League champion Leicester City led by him has also lost its magic after lacking Kante, the core of the midfield. In the first 20 rounds, it was only Achieving a record of 5 wins, 6 draws and 9 losses, he ranked 21th in the Premier League standings with 14 points, only 6 points higher than the relegation zone. There are constant rumors in the media that he will be dismissed soon.

The German women's football team was crowned the Olympic champion for the first time in Rio. The meritorious head coach Ned won the title of the best women's football coach. However, the German midfielder Bellinger, who scored 5 goals in the Olympics, regretted not being crowned Miss World Football. This honor Lloyd, the No. 10 player of the U.S. Women's National Team, was elected FIFA's Best Female Athlete last year.

The Puskas Award was voted online by fans that night. Malaysian Super League player Faiz Soubry scored with a strange arcing free kick, winning the support of nearly 60% of the fans and winning the award.

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Bruno was selected into the FIFA best team, but he was not present to receive the award because he and his teammates were preparing for the League Cup semi-finals one day later and the subsequent second leg of the Double Red Club.

However, he asked Manchester United CEO Giaretta, who was present to accept the award on his behalf, to bring him a recorded video. In the video, he explained to FIFA and all the fans the reason why he was unable to receive the award and also Ronaldo expressed congratulations.

However, Ronaldo fans around the world do not appreciate it and think that Bruno, Ronaldo's younger brother, does not give face to the big brother. This has also led to the further deterioration of the relationship between Bruno's fans and Ronaldo's fans.

There is even a split between Portuguese fans. The Portuguese fans who support Ronaldo and the Portuguese fans who support Bruno are increasingly moving towards opposition.

In fact, Bruno was not the only one who did not come to receive the award. Among the best eleven, except for Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, Kroos, Modric, Marcelo and Ramos, only Barcelona's Alves appeared at the award ceremony, and the other five were all Didn't show up.

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After all the voting results are announced, the votes of captains and head coaches of each country are also worthy of attention.

Among the top 10 powerful head coaches, 4 people ranked Ronaldo first, 4 people ranked Bruno first, and 2 people ranked Messi first; among the top 10 powerful captains, the same Four people ranked Bruno first, three people ranked Ronaldo first, and two people ranked Messi first.

As the captains of the Portuguese and Argentinian national teams, Ronaldo and Messi also attracted much attention in their votes. According to the announced results, in the selection of the best player, Ronaldo's choices were Bruno, Bale and Modric, while Messi's choices were Bruno, Suarez and Neymar.

This is not the first time that Ronaldo and Messi have made complementary choices, but it is somewhat unexpected that they chose Bruno as the first pick. It’s okay with Ronaldo, Bruno and him are teammates of the national team after all, and Bruno’s performance in 2016 was indeed outstanding. It makes sense for him to choose Bruno, but Messi regards Bruno as the first choice for the 2016 World Footballer. But it surprised everyone.

This result also made Cristiano Ronaldo fans even more dissatisfied with Bruno. They believed that Bruno was recognized by Cristiano Ronaldo's mortal enemy Messi, which meant that he betrayed Cristiano Ronaldo and became a rebel. They criticized Bruno on the Internet.

This made Messi fans applaud greatly. On the one hand, they said that this represented Messi's generosity and fairness. On the other hand, it fanned the flames. They even asked Bruno to stop playing for the Portuguese national team and naturalize to Argentina to help Messi. West.

The British media unanimously defended Bruno. They believed that Bruno was the real uncrowned king in 2016. British fans also spoke online, suggesting that Bruno choose to play for England.

It is said that the butt determines the head, nothing more than this.

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Bruno didn't pay too much attention to these disturbing things. After all, he had expected such a result and was mentally prepared for it.

Moreover, his preparation for the next competition is not just an excuse for not going to Zurich to receive the award, but a real fact.

The FIFA awards ceremony will be held at 6:30 pm local time, but just one day later at 8 pm, Manchester United will face Hull City at Old Trafford.

Although the League Cup is a tasteless event, by the semi-finals, even the top teams in the Premier League will start to get interested.

After all, at this point, only three more games are needed to win a championship trophy.

Under such circumstances, no one will be an exception, because no one will dislike too many championship trophies.

Manchester United, who were fully prepared for the match, did not disappoint the fans who supported them around the world. They swept Hull City 4:1 at home, almost ending the suspense in the first round and locking in a ticket to the League Cup final. .

One day later, at St. Mary's Stadium, Liverpool, which chose to hide the core midfielder Coutinho in order to save energy for the upcoming second leg of the double red club, was defeated by the home team Southampton 1:0. In the two-legged League Cup semi-finals in a disadvantageous situation.

However, Liverpool obviously won't care too much about this result. Their minds are already focused on the upcoming 21st round of the Premier League, the second leg of this season's Double Red Club at Old Trafford.

After all, Liverpool suffered a 0:4 defeat at the hands of Manchester United in the first leg of the double-red club at Anfield Stadium. They certainly do not want to lose to Manchester United again.

(End of this chapter)