In the early morning of January 18, Beijing time, FIFA announced that Bayern's god Leiwan was elected the 2021 World Footballer of the Year. FIFA subsequently announced this year's votes. It is worth mentioning that Santos, the veteran coach of the Portuguese national team, did not choose the captain of the national team, C Ronaldo.
FIFA stipulates that in the FIFA Best Selection, there is no restriction on the vote of the national team manager, except that the player cannot vote for himself. Because of this, the head coaches of many powerful national teams have given the first pick of their three votes to the top stars of their national teams.
Like French men's football coach Deschamps, all three votes were given to French players. They are Karim Benzema with 5 points, Mbappe with 3 points and Kante with 1 point. Although Argentine coach Scaloni also voted for Mbappe and Neymar, his first pick was still his national team captain Messi. Former Polish men's coach Paulo Sousa also gave Levan five points.
But surprisingly, Portugal national team coach Santos did not give C Ronaldo 1 point, he gave Kante 5 points, Jorginho 3 points, Levan 1 point. Although 2021 is not a year for Cristiano Ronaldo, he still won the Coppa Italia with Juve and also broke the career record of 800 goals. C Ronaldo did not get the support of his own national team manager, which is indeed a bit strange.
In the last round of portugal's life and death battle in the previous World Preliminary Round, Portugal was reversed by the opponent 1-2 and had no chance to directly qualify, as the captain of the national team, C Ronaldo was suspected of having an unpleasant "debate" with Santos after the game, when C Ronaldo was very emotional and seemed to be very dissatisfied with the platooning and tactics of Santos's life and death battle. Perhaps it is precisely because of the loss of the general that Santos did not vote for C Ronaldo.