In the past day, The La Liga giants Barcelona, which is in a storm, have once again become the object of ridicule and criticism by fans around the world, for no other reason than him, FIFA announced on the evening of December 14, Beijing time, the 23-man shortlist for the best team of the year, the Red and Blue Army, which has performed extremely badly in the past year, especially in the second half of the year, there are four players from Busquets, De Jong, Alves and Alba, who have been selected. Bayern Munich, which has just beaten Barca in the past Champions League group stage, have only one and a half players selected. Such an obvious unfair and ironic result pushed the Red and Blue Legions to the cusp of the storm at the first time.
Of the four players selected by Barca, except for Busquets, who deserves it, everyone else has a different groove. Busquets was selected because, in addition to his solid performance in Barcelona, he also played well with the Spanish national team at the European Championships held this summer, and the Spanish national team's meritorious player helped the team to reach the final four again after many years, and if it were not for the loss of the penalty shootout, there would have been great hopes of winning the Delaunay Cup again. Alba, who is also the main player of the national team, briefly served as the captain of the field of the duck during the European Cup, and it is not impossible to use his on-field contribution as one of the candidates for the best team of the year.
As for De Jong and Alves, these two players seem to be a bit unworthy. De Jong's performance throughout the year has been rather mediocre, at least a long way from the "world one" reputation given to him by a group of Barca fans. The young midfielder, who came to Camp Nou as Iniesta's successor, not only did not raise the ball after more than two seasons, but even after Xavi joined Camp Nou, it was also rumored that he would be sold by Barca in exchange for transfer funds, which shows what kind of predicament he is facing. Even in terms of national team performance, the young player's performance was not satisfactory at this summer's European Championship, and with his help, the Dutch national team stumbled out of the group stage, losing 0-2 to the limited Czech Republic in the quarter-finals... With such a performance, De Jong's selection as a candidate for the best team is too far-fetched.
It is even more far-fetched that Alves can appear in this list, the right-back who has long since faded out of the Europa League and has not played a full game since September, and did not play a friendly match with Boca Juniors for Barcelona until the evening of December 14 (and finally lost), which is obviously not enough to enter the twenty-three-man roster. You know, Hassello, who has contributed a year of world-class performances at Manchester City, has not been selected, and Alves obviously should not be in this.
Among the fans who have criticized Barca and FIFA, it is Bayern Munich fans who have criticized the most, because as one of the most outstanding football clubs in European football in the past year, only one and a half players in the South King's team have been selected, Lewandowski is the one, and Alaba, who transferred to Real Madrid in the summer, is the half, which is in stark contrast to Barcelona. Compared to The Rosso's De Jong and Alves, Bayern midfielder Kimmich and striker Müller are clearly more than worthy of a candidate position, and even the final roster is more than enough, but the magic reality is that none of them is on this controversial list.
In the past 2020/21 season, Müller has scored 11 goals for Bayern while also delivering as many as 18 assists, and in the 2021/22 season, the German striker has already delivered 11 assists, which is more than last season. As for Kimmich, it goes without saying that he is more worthy of the "world one" than de Jong in the eyes of most fans. Both of them can only be regarded as "losing the draft" in this way, and have to wonder if Barca has gone through the back door, at least De Jong and Alves must have sent fruit to the judges.