UEFA founded the annual European Best Player, which is somewhat suspicious of competing with FIFA's Golden Ball Awards.

After FIFA's World Footballer merged with the European Golden Ball Awards reported by France, Europe was almost blank in player selection, so it was natural for UEFA to launch the European Best Player Award in a timely manner.

But this is somewhat of a rush to FIFA for eye drops.

However, after all, FIFA should have been used to this thorn.

In order to distinguish it from the FIFA Golden Ball Awards selection, the selection process of the European Best Player Award was divided into two rounds.

The first round of voting was based on football reporters from fifty-four member states, each submitting a three-person list, selecting the three players with the highest score, and entering the second round of voting.

This year, the highest scorer was Ibrahimovic, followed by Cristiano Ronaldo and finally Neuer.

At this point, Yang Huan had to say with emotion that the goalkeeper was at a loss.

Otherwise, with Neuer's main goalkeeper in the world championship and the main goalkeeper in the UEFA Champions League championship, these two titles are qualified to win the best player in Europe.

It is also a pity that Tony Cross, who should have the chance to win this award.

Unlike FIFA's Golden Ball Awards, the second round of voting for the best player in Europe is conducted by on-site electronic voting, and reporters participating in the first round of voting will select one of the three people.

As for who it will be, no one can tell before the vote.

This is also the biggest suspense in the selection of the best player in Europe.

Due to the live broadcast, UEFA also specially arranged the voting to be held after the lottery ceremony in terms of time.

This made Yang Huan feel urge to curse.

During the lottery session, the first to announce the divisions of thirty-two teams.

As the new UEFA Champions League champion, Southampton entered the first seed team in the group stage.

Interestingly, Atletico Madrid and Benfica are also among the first-tier teams.

>It's really not that Yang Huan took action, but because their points themselves are enough.

Basel in Switzerland entered the second gear and Ajax entered the third gear. After years of separation, Monaco, who returned to the Champions League, Anderlecht of Belgium, and Sparta Prague, who eliminated his opponent in the qualifying round, entered the fourth gear.

The ranking is mainly based on European War points, so there is no way tolerate any tricks.

But there is a saying that is right: it is better to draw lots than to draw good grades.

Southampton was arranged to Group G when he was grouping. As a result, in the draw of lottery, Schalke 04 from the second team, the team in the third team drew Sporting Lisbon, and Maribor from Slovenia in the fourth team. The draw of lottery was pretty good.

In fact, when it comes to lottery, there is a little attention to detail.

Many people like to talk about tricks. There may be one thing, but in fact, there is really not much option for lottery draws.

Just like Southampton, as a Premier League team, Manchester City in the second place and Liverpool in the third place cannot draw.

If the second team draws Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga, then Leverkusen, in the third team, can't draw.

As for the fourth level, among the eight teams, the ones that are truly strong are Monaco and Rome.

But if you choose eight and two, you can imagine how much the probability is.

Atletico Madrid was also lucky and was assigned to Group A, with opponents being Juventus, Olympiacos and Malmö.

Basel is in a relatively unlucky way. Although it is the second team, it meets Real Madrid and Liverpool in the third place.

On the contrary, Monaco, who was in the fourth level, had a little luck, and actually drew Porto, St. Petersburg Zenit and Leverkusen. This should be considered the best luck in the fourth level team.

As for Benfica, he drew Donetsk miners, Athletic Bilbao and Borisov, and his strength was not weak.

Ajax was unlucky and was divided into a group with Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, and he almost struggled with the third goal in the league from the beginning.

Looking at the eight groups, if you say it's unlucky, then the most unlucky one must be Bayern Munich.

As a seed team, Bayern Munich drew Manchester City in the second division, the third division was CSKA Moscow, and the fourth division was Roma in the Serie A. The four teams are all very strong and can be called the death group.

As soon as the lottery results were announced, there was an uproar on the scene and everyone started to talk.

It was completely expected that all newspapers would be published tomorrow, and it would be another conspiracy theories.

"Manchester City is really too unlucky!"

Peter Kenyon shook his head and smiled bitterly after seeing the lottery results.

Who said no?

Yang Huan also smiled, "In the Champions League group stage last season, Manchester City also met Bayern Munich and CSKA. As a result, Manchester City broke out and advanced from the group stage."

Speaking of this, Yang Huan laughed, "If it is according to conspiracy theory, it should be that UEFA saw that he could not die in Manchester City last season, and this season has become even worse. In addition to Bayern Munich and CSKA, there is another team of Rome. If you don't believe it, you can't die in Manchester City!"

Peter Kenyon also laughed. Master Huan's words really tasted like paparazzi.

But it's right to think about it. Such a bizarre lottery result is indeed easy to make people imagine.

"It's a little difficult, but with Manchester City's strength, it should be no problem to break through the group stage."

As a strong Premier League team, Manchester City is indeed strong enough and the lineup is indeed strong. If the group cannot qualify, then Pellegrini will probably have to be dismissed.

Yang Huan nodded, "Roma and CSKA cannot stop Manchester City. The key question is whether they are the first in the group or the second in the group, which determines how far Manchester City can go."

Peter Kenyon supports this statement.

Don’t look at the first and second group, there seems to be no big difference. In fact, the difference is too big.

According to the current rules, the second group in the group went to the quarterfinals and the knockout round was the first in the other groups.

Then let’s take a look at what teams are among the top teams?

Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Southampton, Bayern Munich...

Not to mention Manchester City, who can have the confidence to win when they meet these teams?

Therefore, in Yang Huan's view, the crux of Manchester City's current lies not in the team's knockout competition competitiveness, but in the group stage ability to grab points.

"However, it's also unlucky. Manchester City seems to have encountered strong teams in the group stage in recent years." Yang Huan laughed a little gloating.

From Real Madrid to Bayern Munich today, Manchester City has encountered many enemies and rivals in the group stage.

Peter Kenyon also smiled slightly, "In fact, the main reason is that Manchester City lacks European war accumulation."

"Yes, if they accumulate a year or two in the Europa League, and the European Cup points are increased and they enter the Champions League, they will naturally not always be ranked third and fourth, and the draws in the group stage will be much better than that."

Theoretically speaking, the third and fourth gears will definitely meet powerful people, but their strength is just high or low.

In contrast, Southampton successfully defended the UEFA Cup in two seasons and earned enough European points. As soon as he got a certain advantage when he was in the division, he even won the Champions League last season, so he naturally avoided other giants.

After the Champions League group draw ceremony ended, the award ceremony continued.

Platini walked up to the rostrum with a smile, holding the results of the reporters' vote.

The UEFA president is always good at seizing every opportunity to appear in public, perhaps, this is the first element that a good candidate must have.

"I just got the results of all the reporters on the scene who voted for the best player in Europe."

Hearing Platini say this, everyone below suddenly felt heartbroken.

Yang Huan also looked solemn. He was very concerned about who could win this award?

"The result is in my hands!" Platini smiled and raised the answer in his hand. This almost made many people on the scene start to squirt. You guys, can you stop being too slow? Just click, okay?

Perhaps it was the protests from many people below, or perhaps Platini himself found out that he decided not to delay the show anymore. Anyway, he quickly turned on the result in his hand and smiled at the microphone, "The best player in Europe won the 2013-2014 season is..."

Everyone below held their breath and waited to listen to the final answer.

“…from Southampton…”

When Yang Huan heard this, his heart suddenly jumped. Isn't it Cristiano Ronaldo?

From Southampton, was it Neuer?

Looking back, the German goalkeeper is now excited, and he must have thought it was him.

But the UEFA president who was not honest on the stage changed his tone, "...Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who is now playing for Paris Saint-Germain!"

After saying that, he laughed, "Let us congratulate Zlatan on winning the best player in Europe!"

This was the whole audience in an uproar.

Immediately afterwards, there was a burst of applause.

Almost everyone stood up and applauded Ibrahimovic.

Ibrahimovic, sitting in the Paris Saint-Germain area, also stood up, hugged the management and teammates of Paris Saint-Germain around him, and accepted their congratulations.

Afterwards, when he left his area and was about to step onto the stage, he ran to Southampton, took the initiative to hug Neuer and other Saints' teammates, and finally came to Yang Huan.

"Thank you, Young Master Huan!" Ibrahimovic gave Yang Huan a heavy bear hug.

"No, no!" Yang Huan struggled a little.

It's a big shot, can we stop exerting so much force?

Ibrahimovic ran to the podium with a smile, took the trophy from Platini, then looked at it for a while before walking to the microphone.

"Here, I must thank all the friends who support and vote for me, my family, my agent, and everyone who has helped me, but what I want to thank the most is Southampton and Master Huan!"

There was another burst of thunderous applause at the scene.

Ibrahimovic always gives people the feeling of being cold and arrogant, and often has conflicts with his old clubs. This is true in Ajax, Juventus and Barcelona, ​​but now, it is really not easy to give thanks to Southampton.
To be continued...