This season's Bundesliga has entered the winter break, and many players have also turned on vacation mode. Among them, Bayern star Lewandowski recently came to Dubai, a tourist resort in the United Arab Emirates, with his family for a vacation. Not only that, Levan also dressed up at the award ceremony of this year's Global Football Awards in the early morning of Beijing time, but his arrival made the organizers suddenly feel nerve-wracking and painstaking.
Looking back at the just-concluded global football awards ceremony, the organizers awarded the most important award, the male footballer of the year, to Mbappe from Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 1 in a boo. You know, in Ligue 1 and the Champions League, Mbappe, who was out early in the European Cup, has an overall performance or performance this year that is even enough for the world's top five.
However, considering that the Grand Football Award is organized by the Dubai Sports Authority and organized by the European Football Agents Association and the European Football Club Association, it is not difficult to understand that Dubai not only has to give face to the Qatari royal family of the Foot West Asian brothers (the behind-the-scenes boss of Greater Paris), but also the Greater Paris, as the president of the European Football Club Association, has the right to speak in the selection.
It is only natural that Mbappe will eventually receive the most important award in this selection – after all, Paris Saint-Germain is currently doing everything they can to please Mbappe in order to renew his contract. Just Lewandowski, who also appeared at the award ceremony, because the overall performance of this year was almost crushed by Mbappe, so that the organizers naturally encountered a huge problem in front of fans around the world.
To this end, the organizers had to take into account both their own authority and Levan's identity, and had to temporarily add a new award, the "Maradona Award". Although the organizers said that the award was to recognize players who achieved outstanding results, had pure talent and a tireless love for the game, there was only one criterion for judging, and that was the number of goals scored this year.
There is no doubt that this award has little competitive value. Looking back at 2021, Levan scored a total of 69 goals in official matches, ranking among the top goals in Europe for three consecutive years, and naturally won this award. However, if Levan were to just get such an award and leave, the organizers would obviously be scolded to death by fans all over the world.
So, just after Mbappe took the award for Player of the Year, Levan stepped onto the podium again and received the "Fan Favorite Player Award". As the name suggests, this award is a consolation prize. But what's more interesting is that the organizers not only listed the award as the last award of the award ceremony, but even arranged for other winners to take a group photo after Levan received the award, thus shaping Levine's highest treatment in the C position of the group photo...
At the same time, outside the awards ceremony, the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world today, also lit up Lewan's photo to congratulate him. You know, in the past, this was actually the treatment of the best player of the year, but the organizers may also know that their selection is controversial or even reasonable, and finally won the highest position of Levan, who missed the highest award.
In this regard, Levan's mentality is very generous, and after the awards ceremony, he said through social media: "I am always happy to be in Dubai. Thank you to the Jury of the Universal Football Awards for the awards that have been given to me, which are of great value to me, and thank you to all the fans who voted for me. I also want to dedicate the trophy to young athletes all over the world. Please remember that success is never achieved overnight, even if you fall on the way to your dreams, you must stand up bravely and continue to fight for your goals. Congratulations to all the winners! I wish you all the best in 2022! ”
It should be added that the Universal Football Awards have been controversial since the day of its birth. In particular, the highly subjective organizer, the European Association of Football Agents, not only always crony in the selection, but even sets up a series of new awards every year to enhance the status and value of its players. As for this, well-known broker Mendes is clearly well versed in this.
For example, in the 2020 selection, the last award was the best player of the century (2001-2020), and the winner was the star C Ronaldo under Mendes, which overshadowed Levan who won the best player and Frick who won the best coach; looking at this year's award ceremony, suddenly set up a "first scorer award in history", the winner is of course C Ronaldo - this award, equivalent to announcing the world through the official way of the award: C Ronaldo is the player who has scored the most goals in world football in history.