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Chapter 606 Golden Boy Protagonist and Golden Ball Candidate

With the release of the Chinese team's lottery, Gao Yuyang didn't pay much attention to the lottery ceremony.The rest of the signings were also announced later, and the top 32 were settled.

Group A: Russia, Uruguay, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Group B: Portugal, Spain, Iran, Morocco
Group C: France, Peru, Denmark, China

Group D: Argentina, Croatia, Iceland, Nigeria

Group E: Brazil, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Serbia

Group F: Germany, Mexico, Sweden, Australia (According to the plot of the book, Australia will be used to replace South Korea)

Group G: Belgium, England, Tunisia, Panama
Group H: Poland, Senegal, Colombia, Japan

Frankly speaking, the Chinese team's signing luck is not good, but it is definitely the most topical. Even when the signing first came out, the topic heat once overwhelmed the topic heat of Group B's "two-tooth battle".

At least around Gao Yuyang, reporters from all over Paris flocked to the training base in Paris the next day.

"Gao, what do you think about facing the French team in the World Cup?"

Gao Yuyang pulled Nkuku over, straightened his face and said to the reporters: "I have an agreement with Christopher, I hope we can play against each other in the World Cup."

Nkunku laughed to the reporters: "I testify! Gao did say it, and I am looking forward to it."

But the reporters insisted: "We are talking about the French team, Gao!"

The reporters in Paris always wanted to get to the bottom of the matter, but Gao Yuyang didn't say anything and they didn't even intend to let him go.

Then Gao Yuyang could only tell the truth.

"French team? Hehe, you will know what's going to happen when you meet!"

Gao Yuyang deliberately played tricks and didn't mention his name.

However, he will be much more straightforward when facing the Chinese media cameras. After the lottery, CCTV Sports Channel's "Football Night" column specially made a preview to interpret the Chinese team's signing luck.Gao Yuyang faced the camera and told the truth to the Chinese fans.

"We should be confident that there is no opponent that the Chinese team can't win, just like what Paris did last season."

This was his utterance as the star of the national team. After the interview, Yang Mingming asked him specifically: "Yuyang, what do you think? Tell me the truth."

"That was the truth just now, sister Mingming."

Yang Mingming was taken aback: "Can we really win against France? Do you think there is a chance?"

Gao Yuyang nodded: "Why not? Since we are all placed in the fourth tier, we are destined to be assigned to a championship-caliber team. Who will we meet? Germany? Argentina? Or Brazil? At least I am relatively familiar with France. Since our goal is not to make soy sauce, does it matter who we touch?"

Yang Mingming thought about it carefully, and his eyes lit up: "Hey, Yuyang, the national team has a big goal this time?"

Gao Yuyang just waved his hand lightly: "I didn't say anything, haha!"

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Gao Yuyang just posted a Weibo routinely, which was suggested by Dai Jun, to let the fans see that he is also concerned about the fate of the national team.But in the final analysis, interpreting signings is what the media like and are best at doing.Gao Yuyang still put more energy in the game.

On December [-]th, this season's French League Cup decided the top [-], and Paris also played in the League Cup for the first time.

Facing Strasbourg, who is also a Ligue 4 team, Emery implemented a rotation, and even Gao Yuyang only played half of the game.In the end, Paris won the opponent with a score of 2:[-] and advanced to the quarterfinals of the League Cup.

On December 15th, in the No.2 round of the league, Paris beat Troyes 0:[-] at home.

On December 7th, the Champions League group stage ushered in the final match.After Paris previously won the Celtics 1:3, they defeated Sevilla 1:[-] in the away game. This is the last game of the group stage and returned to the home court to play against Liverpool.

Before this game, the two teams had already decided to qualify together, so they lost their strategic and tactical value, but despite this, the two teams still played a very high-quality game.

Gao Yuyang overwhelmed Lovren in the 206th minute of the game and opened the scoring for Paris at home, once again cruelly putting the loopholes in Liverpool's defense in front of Klopp.

"Facts have proved that Liverpool just need Gao, and they need such a penalty zone terminator! John Henry should show enough determination. To get a player like Gao, what is needed is an opportunity-opportunity lies in front of Liverpool!"

The Liverpool media still didn't give up, especially when Gao Yuyang showed such a dominant performance, they would always use his strength to make a wave of hype.

Once Nasser is willing to let go, it is almost conceivable that Gao Yuyang is definitely the most fragrant prey in the European transfer market.

But this is impossible. In this game, Gao Yuyang scored twice again, helping Paris beat Liverpool 3:2 at home, and successfully qualified for the first place in the group.

After the end of the group stage, open the goal account of Paris, and have scored eight goals in the Champions League this season!

This made all the mainstream European media have to be convinced, especially the Italian media-there was one piece of news that made them pay special attention to Gao Yuyang.

"Needless to say that in the younger generation of European football, even in the entire European football, he is the strongest striker! Another strongest talent, Kylian Mbappe, is also in Paris Saint-Germain, but his statistics are completely complete. Can't compare to Gao - so this year's European Golden Boy belongs to Gao, which is a well-deserved honor!"

The news of the internal media is always well-informed-Torino Sport announced the final winner of the 2017 European Golden Boy Award.

Gao Yuyang!
With his super performance this year, he defeated Mbappe and Manchester City striker Gabriel Jesus to be elected.

Mbappe looked very calm when facing this result: "I want to congratulate Gao. There is nothing to say about losing to him. His performance this year is worthy. My competition with him is in the future FIFA gold medal. We still have a lot of chances at the ball."

Gao Yuyang laughed, and rushed to Turin to attend the European Golden Boy Awards ceremony, and received a very unique globe-shaped trophy.

Giacobelli, editor-in-chief of Turin Sports News, the organizer of the Golden Boy Award, talked about the selection at the awards ceremony, and he did not hesitate to praise Gao Yuyang.

"The players shortlisted this time are the three best strikers in Europe in this era, but among them, why did Gao get 63% of the votes? Almost all the participating media have a common feeling: Gao is the one who can lead the way in the future. A great player in world football! He has amazing strength, and he is still getting stronger and is approaching perfection!"

This evaluation is so powerful that the Chinese reporters who chased after the awards scene all stared wide-eyed.

Now the domestic mainstream public opinion is that Gao Yuyang will be able to match Messi and Ronaldo sooner or later. This is the limit that Chinese reporters can think of. After all, the world champion is indeed the best reference.

But are Messi and Ronaldo perfect players?

uncertain.Messi was considered by the Argentine media as "the closest successor to Maradona" when he first debuted, but after so many years, has he surpassed Maradona?
At least Maradona won the World Cup on his own, and even the Argentine media never said so.

So is Maradona the perfect player?
Maybe it counts on the court, but anyway, no media has used this kind of evaluation on any professional player for many years.

At the awards ceremony, Gao Yuyang was asked a question: "Gao, congratulations on being shortlisted for the FIFA Ballon d'Or, you are very likely to be the first European player to win the Ballon d'Or in the same year." Tong, can you predict the possibility of how strong you are?"

This question is a bit digging. Everyone knows that the Golden Globe Award is completely different from the Golden Boy Award. What Gao Yuyang has to face is Melo, who has been in the field for ten years and has a strong team appeal.This in itself is not false, and will occupy a great advantage in the selection process of the Golden Globe Awards.

Gao Yuyang thought for a while, holding his golden boy trophy and said with a smile: "For Leo and Cristiano, I have played against them, and they have created an era. The era needs progress, which cannot be predicted by humans. Who knows? But if it evolves too quickly, the two of them might feel useless."

Everyone at the scene laughed—this is indeed the truth!
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This is the first time that Gao Yuyang has been shortlisted for the FIFA Ballon d'Or, but it can be seen that he is now strong and has directly entered the final three candidates, just like Sneijder in 2010.That year he was the double core of the Dutch team and Inter Milan, and entered the final competition with the club's honor of winning the Champions League and the World Cup runner-up.

The honor that belongs to Gao Yuyang this year is the Grand Slam of club competitions, especially the first UEFA Champions League championship in Paris-helping a sufficiently influential team to become a real giant, this is almost a groundbreaking contribution.

Another bonus item is the national team level. Leading the Chinese team back to the World Cup is not just the pride of Chinese fans and the media. Maybe the mainstream European media does not buy it, but it has an extraordinary influence on FIFA.Putting aside the issue of international influence, China is now the biggest benefactor of FIFA... At least when the Ballon d'Or selection is in full swing, FIFA very coincidentally posted on the official website that Gao Yuyang led the Chinese team to the World Cup success photo.

If the Golden Boy Award is likened to a novice village, the selection of the Golden Globe Award is a complete king's game. Gao Yuyang is one of the few people who can challenge across the circle in the past ten years.

Public opinion matters.The selection rules for the Ballon d'Or are a huge jury composed of journalists from major media around the world to score candidate players, based on factors such as the player's career history, honor, personality, and off-court prestige.

So this is a comprehensive contest. Until now, many people think that there is a shady scene in the 2010 Ballon d'Or selection. In fact, although Sneijder's football career reached its peak that season, what about off-field competitiveness?The popularity of the Dutch off the court is definitely not as good as that of Messi at the time.

Of course, Gao Yuyang is different from Sneijder. He has friends by his side and the huge Chinese media behind him. It is not his turn to worry about it. Since the media disclosed the list of candidates, someone has already stood up for him.

The entire media in Paris is building up momentum for Gao Yuyang.The Parisian even declared directly on the front page of the day that this should be the end of an era.

"There has never been an era like now. The same two people have ruled the world football for nearly a decade. Continuous transcendence and continuous improvement are what football should look like. Now Gao has brought the power to move forward. FIFA should show Show your attitude and support the birth of a new king!"

French TV One also mentioned this matter in the subsequent evening program. Uncle Fagoli even said directly in the program: "If you want to compare the strength on the field, Gao broke the Champions League Golden Boot record last season, and Leo Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo have played against each other and have beaten Barcelona and Real Madrid, so what more needs to be said?"

There are those who help create public opinion, and the Paris fans are not idle.The current FIFA Ballon d'Or was established after the merger of "French Football" magazine and FIFA's World Player of the Year award... So Page directly led a large number of friends to pull a banner in front of "French Football" magazine up.

"The only king—only GAO!"

Fans come here every day to gather and shout slogans, so that a large number of police officers were dispatched to block the nearby street intersections. Those who didn't know thought there were riots in Paris again.

On the other hand, the Chinese media are not idle, and they are even more active. They are interviewing those who have relations with Gao Yuyang, those players and coaches who have left Paris, all over Europe.Others really wouldn't dare to do this, but these reporters are very confident. Although Gao Yuyang often makes some troubles, his reputation in the team is almost zero.

The result was similar. CCTV reporters interviewed Juventus player Matuidi in Turin, and his attitude was very firm.

"Only if you have been teammates with Gao will you understand his strength. He is a real professional player! If I am qualified, I will definitely vote for him!"

And the old goalkeeper Sirigu who also played for Turin said the same: "Gao is the strongest striker I have ever seen, the purest player! If football can still improve, this year's Ballon d'Or should be Gao's turn!"

It is worth mentioning that a reporter from Tencent Sports also arranged an exclusive interview with Blanco, the former coach of Paris, and talked about the possibility of Gao Yuyang winning the Golden Globe.The French football legend said loudly: "From the first time I saw Gao, he gave me a strong feeling that this will be a great player! He has all the characteristics of a good player, and There is no need to prove anything! If this year’s Golden Globe does not belong to Gao, it must be shady!”

During the interview, Blanco was also asked about the just-concluded World Cup draw. He personally "arranged" the meeting between the Chinese team and the French team, but he just showed a mysterious smile and replied: "This is the best arrangement, isn't it?" ?”

Gao Yuyang also realized that there are so many people trying to create momentum for him when he was free. When Yang Mingming collected all the things that the domestic media had done into a video and sent it, to be honest, although he was moved, Gao Yuyang felt trapped. The feeling of being roasted on the fire.

What if you can't take it off?He didn't know much about such things.

(End of this chapter)