The third update—

The 2004 AFC Annual Awards Ceremony opened grandly at the Golden Horse Palace Hotel Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Qin Xiong sat in the front row, and he always clasped his fingers with Xi Weiya.

Around him were footballers who were also from China who might receive awards.

Referee Lu Jun, Chinese women's football youth team coach Wang Haiming, Chinese men's football national youth team coach Ha Wei, and some officials from the Chinese Football Association.

Freddy sat behind Qin Xiong, not very prominent. In fact, the media did not pay much attention to the player's agent. After all, the reputation and image of the agent have long become a rat crossing the street.

The live footage of the ceremony is often locked on Qin Xiong.

In the opening speech of AFC Chairman Harman, the annual provincial capital of Asian football officially started.

Harman summarized the development of Asian football in the past year, followed by the annual work summary of the AFC committees and executive committees.

Due to its huge territory and many divisions in power management, Asia has its own football camps and organizational management systems. Because of this, the first part of this annual feast has become a boring self-expression conference, and representatives of committee members from each region commend the development achievements of football in their respective regions.

After their annual summary speech ended, the ceremony entered the annual award ceremony.

Qin Xiong sat down in the audience and always had a gentle expression.

To be honest, he didn't have the idea of ​​"it doesn't matter whether he wins a prize or not."

The reason why he asked the club for leave to come here was to get the highest personal honor award for Asian football, otherwise he would not be interested in coming here to waste time.

What surprised Qin Xiong was that before the final personal prize was awarded, he would come to the stage to receive the prize.

He won the honor of the best returnee player of the year.

The AFC also encourages outstanding players to go to European football to improve, which will help improve the level of Asian football. After all, Asian players still have to contribute to national team competitions.

It is conceivable that if one day most players play in the Asian Cup event, they will play in European football and play in famous European clubs, then the attractiveness and attention of the Asian Cup and the commercial value of the event will naturally be significantly improved, not to mention that the national team composed of high-level Asian players may also win honors for Asian football in the World Cup.

After Qin Xiong came to power, he received the personal honorary award for the Best Returned Player from a representative of the AFC Executive Committee that he did not know. In the award speech, he did not speak in English, but in his native Chinese.

"I'm very happy to have such honors, which is a kind of affirmation and encouragement for me. I must thank everyone who helped me in my football career. Coaches, teammates, friends, and everyone around me. I will not regard this as an end point, but the starting point. I will look forward to standing here again next year and receiving some awards. That means I will perform better in the future, but it must be done more. I understand, and I am ready, thank you."

There was applause at the scene, but many people were surprised.

Qin Xiong's speech was not like a Chinese.

In everyone's impression, the Chinese should be humble, low-key, implicit and restrained in their speeches on such occasions.

No one makes a declaration like Qin Xiong: I will come here to receive the award next year!

Are you arrogant?

The AFC officials, reporters, representatives of the Football Association, players and coaches at the scene, including countless viewers in front of the TV, some of them understood, while others did not.

Those who know the AFC’s individual award selection mechanism understand: even if he does not continue to make progress, as long as he maintains his performance in 2004, he will of course come back and stand on the stage to receive the award!

Looking at the five major leagues, there are very few Asian players who can play in the giants, and there are only a handful of Asian players who can attract more attention in the Champions League.

Even like Park Ji-sung and Lee Yong-pyo represented PV Eindhoven in the Champions League. But is the influence of PV Eindhoven comparable to that of Arsenal?

No!

The performance in the Champions League is the first rating for the AFC to select the best player.

Unless the club represented by Qin Xiong performs in a mess in the Champions League, and the Chinese team will do nothing in the Asian Cup or World Cup year, it will be possible that Qin Xiong will withdraw from the AFC selection.

The award ceremony is still in progress.

Qin Xiong sat back on his seat, Xi Weiya happily took over the award for Best Returned Player from him, picked it up and looked at it carefully, as if she regarded it as a treasure.

After all other awards were awarded, the final Asian Football Award began to enter the final announcement.

Among the three candidates, the other two, Qin Xiong, did not know them at all.

The annual performance highlights of the three candidates produced by the AFC are released on the big screen.

In addition to the performance of the Asian Cup and World Cup qualifiers, the other two candidates also have a collection of exciting performances in the AFC Champions League.

But compared with Qin Xiong's annual highlights, they look overshadowed.

This is clear at a glance.

Although the AFC will not refer to Qin Xiong's performance in the Dutch domestic league and cup, it is only behind Qin Xiong's wonderful performance in the Champions League, those opponents that highlight his excellent performance are famous European clubs.

And in the last two seconds of the video, the scene switches.

Qin Xiong and Ajax teammates won the Champions League trophy together, and then frozen in the picture of him winning the Asian Cup trophy as the captain of the Chinese national team.

The two pictures of holding the cup overlap, the Asian Cup occupies 2/3 of the territory, and the rest is the Champions League. Although in the eyes of many fans, the Asian Cup is definitely not as attractive as the Champions League, but the AFC here of course cannot smash its own signature.

At this moment, the results are about to be announced, but in fact everyone knows who the winner will be.

It can't be someone else!

Will a player who won the first and most important championship trophy in the selection mechanism of two Asian footballers lose to the other two?

Although Qin Xiong came here with great ambition, he regarded the Asian Footballer as his own possession.

But he really didn't think about what he would do if he lost?

Perhaps with his personality, he would leave the scene without any grace on the spot.

And they will never come to the AFC annual ceremony again.

There is no other reason.

If it is his, he should give it to him. He is not convinced by losing to Asian players who have a clear gap with him!

If he doesn't agree, he won't protest with his mouth, he will take action, so he should 99% of the time he will get up and leave.

Xiweiya held Qin Xiong's hand and tried harder. She seemed to be even more nervous than Qin Xiong. Instead, Qin Xiong patted the back of her hand gently and smiled at her to relax.

When AFC Chairman Harman pronounced the word "Qin Xiong" in a strange tone, there was a long-lasting applause from the scene!

Qin Xiong hugged Xi Weiya after standing up, but in fact she hugged him happily.

Qin Xiong shook hands with the Chinese footballers around him with a smile, while the Football Association officials sitting in the same row were full of joy.

There is no doubt that countless sponsor representatives are also paying attention to this provincial capital.

Their eyes were focused on Qin Xiong.

From a competitive perspective, it doesn’t make much sense for Qin Xiong to win the personal award of Asian Footballer, because Asian Footballer has a very low status in international football. Not to mention superstars, they may not even be considered first-class stars!

However, from a business perspective, Chinese player Qin Xiong won the Asian Footballer Award. For sponsors investing in him, what they will gain will be further stimulation and development of the Asian market!

This will make Qin Xiong's commercial value higher.

Qin Xiong walked onto the podium for the second time, and the thunderous applause made the atmosphere extremely exciting.

From another perspective, Asia has produced a player who can win the Champions League championship, which is also the pride of the AFC and represents the progress of Asian football. Even if a person's success is just a small step forward, even a little bit is better than nothing, right?

CCTV broadcast the AFC annual event live broadcast throughout the entire process. The host proudly said what excited all Chinese fans when Qin Xiong came to the podium.
Chapter completed!