Beijing time, January 8: Last night, the FIFA Annual Best of the Year selection announced the top 3 candidates, they are Messi, Lewandowski and Salah. Objectively speaking, the performance of these three players in the past year is indeed very impressive. Of course, there are some controversies, and there is no problem with messi and Levan's selection. But Salah's selection is debatable, and the rules clearly state that the selection dates are from August of the previous year to August of last year.
But during this time, Salah's performance did not seem to be able to make him one of them. Therefore, there is still controversy, and many fans say that stars like Jorginho should be eligible to compete for 3rd place. Salah's selection was indeed not recognized by the fans. It is worth mentioning that for the Portuguese star C Ronaldo, this year is also the first time in the past 10 years that he has missed the top three of FIFA's annual best. Since 2011, Ronaldo has been able to be selected in the top three every year in the future, and most of the time it is either first or second. Only in 2019 did I get a third.
But in this year's selection, C Ronaldo was not selected in the top 3, and last year was not a successful year for him. On the one hand, within the selection date, C Ronaldo and Juventus lost the Serie A championship and only won an Italian Cup, and at the same time, in the European Cup, Portugal, which was thought to be led by C Ronaldo, had the hope of attacking the defending title, but did not expect to be out of the round of 16, which made C Ronaldo's European Cup trip appear very bleak and questioned by the outside world. Although he won the Serie A Golden Boot and the European Cup Golden Boot, he really had no advantage over other candidates. While his old rival Messi is still in the competition for top honors, C Ronaldo looks a little frustrated.
Since moving to Manchester United this summer, there has been doubt and denigration all around him. Unlike Messi, although Messi has only scored one goal in Ligue 1 so far, the statistics are not as good as before. But Messi clearly has reservations, he has 5 goals in 5 games in the Champions League, and most of paris in Ligue 1 is training, so Messi has received very few doubts.
And the current results of Paris are very good, sitting firmly at the top of the league and advancing to the knockout rounds in the Champions League. For Messi, he doesn't have to fight too hard. At the same time, Argentina has performed very well in the World Preliminary Round, qualifying second in the group with an unbeaten record and has now locked up a place in the Qatar World Cup. For Messi, this year is still a year in which he is expected to win many honors. But Ronaldo is different, the reason why he fell down is because the Portuguese national team fell into the play-offs, and was divided into the death group, most likely to bid farewell to the World Cup early.
At the same time, although Manchester United has advanced to the knockout rounds as the first in the group this season, it has encountered a strong opponent, Atletico Madrid, and the current situation is still unclear. United have performed even worse in the league, currently only 7th in the league, and it is very difficult to compete for the title and the fourth place, and it is possible that next season they may not even play in the Champions League. Coupled with the fact that Lonnick's platoon arrangement did not meet expectations, the players were actually struggling, and C Ronaldo's state was not good, so this period of time was definitely the darkest moment of life for C Ronaldo.
At this time, the news that he did not qualify for the top three of FIFA in the year was announced, and for the Portuguese, his pressure was greater. I don't know if this time he can use his strength to fight back against the outside world's doubts about him.