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Chapter 507 The Big Three gather together
Two days later, on the afternoon of October 23, Bruno and Mourinho appeared together at the Palladium Theatre in London. Tonight, the 2016-2017 FIFA Awards Ceremony will be held in this theater.
At the 2016 FIFA Awards Ceremony held at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland at the beginning of this year, although Bruno was selected into the final three-person list of the World Footballer of the Year and was selected into the Team of the Year, Bruno did not go to the scene to receive the award. The reason given by Bruno was that Manchester United would play in the League Cup semi-finals in one day.
Now, Bruno actually still doesn't want to go to the scene, because he knows very well that he is still unlikely to win this year's World Footballer of the Year, despite his nearly perfect performance.
However, because FIFA held the awards ceremony in London, it only takes an hour by private plane. If Bruno doesn't go to the scene again, it is clear that he will not give face to FIFA and Ronaldo.
So, although he was reluctant, Bruno still went to London and appeared at the awards ceremony at the Palladium Theatre.
When he arrived at the scene, Bruno was immediately happy because he found that Yosi was also there. You know, this guy didn't attend the FIFA awards ceremony in the past two years.
It can be said that this is the first time that Bruno broke the monopoly of the two heroes on the Golden Ball and the World Footballer of the Year. After the world football officially entered the era of the Big Three, the Big Three gathered together.
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With the release of the awards, there were no unexpected situations.
After winning the World Footballer of the Year in 2016 at the beginning of the year, Ronaldo once again won the World Footballer of the Year in 2017.
For such a result, people have long expected it. After all, in 2017, Ronaldo's performance was indeed very good.
In the past less than ten months, Ronaldo scored 48 goals for Real Madrid and the Portuguese national team in various competitions, helping the Galacticos win the La Liga, Champions League and Spanish Super Cup, and also led the Portuguese national team to win the Confederations Cup.
The most important thing is that Real Madrid won the Champions League this year. This is the first time in 26 years that a team has been able to defend the title since the Champions League was reformed in 1992.
In the previous 25 seasons, many teams were very close to defending the title, but they all failed in the end.
For example, from 1993 to 1995, AC Milan reached the finals for three consecutive years, but they only defeated Barcelona to win the championship in 1994, and lost to Ajax in the previous and next two seasons.
From 1995 to 1996, Ajax won the 1995 Champions League, but in the final a year later, they lost to Juventus in a penalty shootout and failed to defend the title.
But Juventus soon became the next team to fail to defend the title, and they finished second for two consecutive years in 1997 and 1998.
At the turn of the century, Valencia became the runner-up in 2000 and 2001.
Next is Manchester United. The Red Devils led by Ferguson, with the help of the twin stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Rooney, have created a record of 25 consecutive unbeaten Champions League games, and no team has been able to break this record until now. However, they only won the Champions League in 2008, and lost 0:2 to the cosmic team Barcelona in the 2009 Champions League final.
This year, Real Madrid, known as the king of the Champions League, finally broke this curse and became the first team to successfully defend the Champions League in 26 years.
In fact, after entering the 21st century, it is very difficult for a team to reach the Champions League final for two consecutive years. In the past 17 years, only Valencia, Manchester United and Real Madrid have been able to do so.
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Although Cristiano Ronaldo won the World Footballer of the Year as expected, his advantage is not very obvious according to the published voting results.
According to data from the FIFA official website, among the four major voting groups, Cristiano Ronaldo's number of votes is the first, but he is not far ahead of Bruno behind him.
As for the captain of the national team, Ronaldo received 8.11% of the votes, Bruno received 7.69%, and Yosi received 2.1%.
In the voting for the head coach of the national team, Ronaldo received 8.52% of the votes, Bruno received 8.01%, and Yosi received 1.97%.
In the media, Ronaldo received 8.42% of the votes, Bruno received 7.75%, and Yosi received 2.43%.
In the final fan vote, Ronaldo received 8.91% of the votes, Messi received 8.31%, and Yosi received 1.55% of the votes.
In terms of the total votes, Ronaldo received 33.96%, Bruno received 31.76%, only 2.2 percentage points ahead of Bruno.
This has a lot to do with Bruno's personal performance in 2017 being not inferior to Ronaldo, and even better.
In the first ten months of 2017, Bruno played 55 games in all competitions on behalf of Manchester United and the Portuguese national team, scoring 60 goals and providing 34 assists, helping Manchester United win six championship trophies including the Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup, Europa League, Community Shield and European Super Cup, and also helped the Portuguese national team win the Russian Confederations Cup.
It can be said that Bruno's personal performance in 2017 was even better than Ronaldo, but his failure to participate in the Champions League in the 2016-2017 season became a key factor in his inability to defeat Ronaldo.
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This is the fifth time Ronaldo has won the World Footballer (FIFA Ballon d'Or) after 2008, 2013, 2014, and 2016. He has also overtaken Yossi and has won the most World Footballer in history. player of.
Of course, Ronaldo has to thank Bruno for winning the 2015 FIFA Ballon d'Or, otherwise he would just tie Yossi's record.
In the selection of other awards, Miss World Football was won by Dutch female football player Martens. She defeated Venezuelan forward Castellanos and American female football player Carly Lloyd to win the award.
The candidates for this year's best men's football coach are Allegri, Mourinho and Zidane. Allegri led Juventus to win the Serie A title last season and also reached the Champions League final. Mourinho led Manchester United to win the Premier League, Europa League, EFL Cup, FA Cup and Community Shield in 2017. and the European Super Cup, while Zidane led Real Madrid to win the Champions League and La Liga double last season, and also won the Spanish Super Cup.
The final result was as expected. Real Madrid coach Zidane defeated Allegri and Mourinho to win the 2017 Best Men's Football Coach Award.
Dutch women's football coach Wegmann won the Best Women's Football Coach Award, and Giroud won the 2017 Puskas Award. The Celtic fan received the award for best fan behaviour, with Francescone receiving the fair play award.
In the selection of FIFA's best team of the year, Buffon, Alves, Bonucci, Ramos, Marcelo, Modric, Toni Kroos, Bruno Fernandez, Messi, Ibrahimovic and Ronaldo were selected.