At noon local time on Friday, the French media "French Football" officially announced that from now on, the rules and procedures for the Selection of the Golden Globe Awards will be coordinated accordingly. The Golden Globes' judging cycle will coincide with the European season, and eligible media representatives will be more scrutinized. In the case of the most closely watched men's Ballon d'Or, only countries ranked in the top 100 of the world for their national teams can send representatives to vote.
The 2022 World Cup will be held in November-December, with the final taking place on December 18. If the Ballon d'Or vote is still in accordance with the rules of the past, how will the World Cup be included in the scope of the examination? If the vote is held after the World Cup, will the result be postponed until 2023?
French Football announced early in March that it had changed the Rules for voting and voting for the Ballon d'Or, ending the suspense from the start. The 2022 Ballon d'Or, which covers the New Year's Eve season from fall 2021 to summer 2022, includes summer national team events.
According to French Football, this change will fundamentally change the past Ballon d'Or selection ambiguity – in the past, the judges needed to look at the first half of the year (second) and the second half of the second half of the year, rather than a full season.
If we look back at past selections, this ambiguous zone is not only vague, but also vague to the point of inaccuracy. Since the calendar year is used as the unit of examination, why are ballot papers already generated when there are 2 months left in the natural year? Now the scope of the investigation has been changed from natural years to synchronize with the mainstream European leagues, which is a complete end to this vague problem.
Of course, the New Year's Eve season is more concentrated in Europe, and there are many leagues in other parts of the world that are not New Year's Eve, but arrange the season according to natural years, such as Norway and Sweden leagues in Northern Europe, or the Bajia League in the Southern Hemisphere, as well as the South American Libertadores Cup, or the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League, but the participants of these events are extremely difficult to compete for the Golden Ball, so it can be ignored.
Another reform of French Football involves the determination of the list of nominees, adding the opinion of the Golden Globe Ambassador Drogba in addition to the nominations of the editorial office, as well as the opinions of the judges who voted for the "most accurate answer" in the last session.
I think this reform is an entertainment reform, because in the long run, it is always the final result that is controversial, not the nomination of "French Football", which is very professional. The entertainment lies in the addition of Drogba's choice, which actually increases the interaction between celebrities and the outside world and attracts more attention. And the "most quasi-judges of the last session" is a bit of a funny reward, because the judges are the most senior professional journalists in various countries, the voting is based on their own inspection of the players, if the judges vote and the final ranking coincide, it is just a coincidence rather than an accurate fit, the meaning of the selection itself is to collect statistical multiple views, not the competition "who guessed accurately".
Another big change is the sharp contraction in the number of judges. The Golden Globe Jury has expanded from 16 European judges in 1956 to 170 judges from around the world in 2021, which has aroused some suspicion and doubt in recent years. Of course, there is a little bit of distrust that is almost regional discrimination, many people think that the judges of weak football countries outside Europe only know how to chase stars, either choose Messi or choose C Ronaldo, and some years will produce different results if only voted by European judges.
But now the scope of the Golden Globe Awards has been facing the whole world, no longer the European Golden Globe Awards, so it is impossible to return to only european judges, and The selection of the world in Europe is equivalent to naked Eurocentrism. The compromise is to narrow down the jury according to the FIFA rankings, and the top 100 men's football teams and the top 50 women's football teams are eligible to vote. This cut almost half of the judges' qualifications, and the cut part also includes many European judges, such as judges from San Marino, Malta, Andorra, Lithuania, Latvia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Estonia and other countries.
If one considers that the predecessor of the Ballon d'Or was the European Ballon d'Or, a few of the European judges who were cut off may even have been "historic" judges who voted for the Ballon d'Or for a long time, it must be a bit blunt, but there is no other way, because "French Football" must avoid the suspicion that Europe is being taken care of, and it must be cut together. Judging from the current ranking of China's national football team, Luo Ming's voting qualification will not be risky for the time being.
The last one, which is less like a real reform and more of a clarification and clarification of voting rules, establishes that "the Ballon d'Or is an individual award, with the number one criteria being individual performance, decisiveness and impression score, followed by collective achievement during the season, and the last one being moral demeanor and fair play spirit." At the same time, the "career" point of examination has disappeared, which means that the Golden Globe award is to examine the performance of a certain time period and has nothing to do with the entire career.
Luo Ming: The Golden Globe Awards have been changed to the end of the season to be more scientific
The Golden Globes have always been accompanied by controversy, and nine times out of ten controversies have arisen because of voting time.
In theory, the first half of football is more important than the second half of the year, because the game is more critical and directly produces championships, but historically, forwards who have won the golden ball with second-half goals abound. Basten in 1992 and Mero in previous years have examples of those who did not win the first half of the tournament and won the Ballon d'Or with goals scored in the second half of the year.
Another example is the 2021 Golden Globe Awards, if the voting time is a few months late, Levan can get the Golden Ball.
Why the European Footballer of the Year has been so controversial since the opening of the 2011 review, the most important thing is that the voting time is at the end of the season, and the judges are impressed by the trophy and the champions. That's why Jorginho was elected last year.
Now, the Ballon d'Or has finally changed the deadline for scouting players to the end of the season, which is a more scientific decision. As for the selection criteria changed to "focus on individual performance", in fact, as long as it is the end of the season selection, when the important champions are decided, the team performance will naturally be very critical.
Wen | Wang Qinbo Luo Ming
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