Chinese football in 2022 has injuries, helplessness, and surprises. Although it is not yet time to see the light of day, Chinese football does not lack light, and football people with dreams are still forging ahead bravely in adversity. In order to pay tribute to the role models among them, the 6th China Golden Ball Awards with the theme of "setting a role model for Chinese football" was held as scheduled.
The 2022 China Golden Globe Awards selection was officially launched.
After discussion by the expert group of the China Golden Globe Awards jury, the candidates for each award of the 2022 China Golden Globe Awards have been determined. More than 100 representatives and specially invited judges of authoritative sports media will cast professional votes for the China Golden Globe Award, China Women's Golden Globe Award, China Golden Shuai Award and China Golden Boy Award.
China Golden Globe Awards
Focus on the local battlefield
Candidate for the China Golden Globe Award.
In the previous years' Chinese Golden Ball Awards, Wu Lei won the top three times with his outstanding performance in the national team and overseas leagues. With his return to China at the end of his overseas career, there are no more Chinese men in Europe's top five leagues, and the 2022 Chinese Golden Ball winner will be based on their performance in domestic leagues and cups.
Among the 15-man shortlist, Wuhan Three Towns Club, the champions of the Chinese Super League of China, has Liu Dianzuo, Deng Hanwen and Xie Pengfei, among whom Xie Pengfei's statistics of 8 goals and 9 assists in the league are particularly impressive. Shandong Taishan and Shanghai Port, who entered the top four of the Chinese Super League, were shortlisted each, and Zheng Zheng, Wu Lei and Jiang Guangtai were all shortlisted for the 2021 China Golden Globe Awards, ranking 9th, 1st and 8th respectively. The 25-year-old Chen Pu is a major "discovery" of Shandong Taishan's season this season, scoring nine goals and winning the best performance in a single round of the Chinese Super League twice allowing him to beat teammates Jin Jingdao and Liu Yang and others to enter the shortlist for the Chinese Golden Ball Award for the first time. Another club with two candidates is Beijing Guoan: Zhang Yuning, the top scorer in the country and 3rd place in the last Chinese Golden Ball Awards, is not in any suspense, and he is also seen as a popular candidate for the 2022 China Golden Ball winner; Zhang Xizhe's form has clearly recovered in the 2022 season, ranking first in the key passing data of the Chinese Super League. Changchun Yatai striker Tan Long continued to play steadily, scoring 10 goals in 32 league games, scoring the only goal for the Chinese team in the East Asian Cup, and was once again selected as a candidate for the Golden Ball.
In addition, Lin Liangming of Dalian and Jiang Shenglong of Shanghai Shenhua have both been selected for the Chinese Golden Boy Award (the latter has been selected for nearly 3 consecutive years), and this time they have finally been promoted to the shortlist of the Chinese Golden Ball Award. The two promoted polo teams in Zhejiang and Chengdu have performed well in the Chinese Super League and FA Cup, with local players Cheng Jin and Liu Tao contributing a lot, and Henan Songshan Dragons captain Wang Shangyuan was also shortlisted for the 15-man China Golden Ball Award with his hardcore performance.
China Women's Golden Globe Award
The Asian Cup "stars" were all shortlisted
Candidate for the Chinese Women's Golden Globe Award.
In 2022, the Chinese women's football team reigned in Asia again after 16 years, and the players who performed well at the Asian Cup in India at the beginning of the year were shortlisted for the 2022 Chinese Women's Golden Ball Award, including Wang Shanshan, the best goalkeeper of the tournament, Zhu Yu, Wang Shuang, who scored five goals in four games, and Tang Jiali, Zhang Linyan and Xiao Yuyi, who scored key goals in the final. In addition, Zhang Rui and Wang Xiaoxue, who performed steadily throughout the year, were recognized by the experts of the jury and were both shortlisted. As the most stable player in the women's football team in recent years, Shen Mengyu, who ranked 3rd in the last Chinese Women's Golden Ball Awards, was shortlisted again. Also shortlisted for the 10-man shortlist is Wang Linlin, a post-00s teenager who won the tournament's best defender in the East Asian Cup.
China Golden Shuai Award
Shanghai Sect Head "Civil War"
Candidate of China Golden Shuai Award.
The China Golden Shuai Award is awarded to the Chinese coach with the best performance of the year. In the 2022 shortlist, 3 Shanghai coaches appeared, occupying half of the candidates: Shui Qingxia led the Chinese women's football team to win the Asian Cup at the beginning of the year, and her popularity soared; After Wu Jingui took over Shanghai Shenhua, he took the initiative to shoulder difficulties and responsibilities, helped the team tide over difficulties with his rich experience, and gave young players many opportunities to exercise in the league; Xie Hui played in the Chinese Super League for the first time as a head coach in his career, leading Dalian people to complete the task of relegation, while conquering the majority of fans with a clear stream of football concept and unique temperament. Also stunning in the dugout in the 2022 season was Li Weifeng, who took office midway through the season and was appointed to lead Guangzhou City to relegation. The changes he brought to Guangzhou City were not only the technical tactics in the field, but also the management of the dressing room and the improvement of team cohesion. Hao Wei, winner of the 2020 and 2021 Chinese Golden Shuai Award, led the disorganized Shandong Taishan to advance on both league and FA Cup battlefields this season, and both persisted until the end, and the results are still worthy of recognition. In terms of women's football, Wuhan Chegujiang easily defended the women's Super League championship, and coach Chang Wei Wei made great contributions. The shortlist of these two coaches for the 2022 China Golden Shuai Award is also well deserved.
China Golden Boy Award
All 18 young players are strong
While the men's national team and the top flight have struggled, this has not hindered the emergence of newcomers. In order to make fans pay more attention to the performance of newcomers, the jury of the China Golden Ball Awards decided to resume the selection of the two age groups of the China Golden Boy Award U17 and U21. A total of 8 players were selected for the 2022 China Golden Boy Award U17 and 10 candidates for the U21 age group.
Among the candidates for the U17 age group of the 2022 China Golden Boy Award, including Liu Chen, Huang Jiaxin and Qiao Ruiqi who played well in the U17 Women's World Cup, Wang Yudong and Liming, who performed well in the Asian Youth Championship qualifiers, and Ning Fangze and Ye Daoxin, the core players who won the championship for Zhejiang in the first China Youth Football League. In addition, as the first "post-05" player to score in China's third-tier professional league, Wang Dingkun of Hubei Youth Star Club was also included in the candidate list.
The selection of the U21 age group of the 2022 China Golden Boy Awards is bound to be highly competitive, with candidates ranging from the finalists of the previous selection Liu Zhurun (2nd place), Gao Tianyu (9th) and Eifeldin Eskar (10th), as well as the main players of the national football team in the U20 Asian Cup qualifiers, Baihlamu Abduwaili, Liu Guobao and Hu Hetao, as well as Ablikim Abdul Shalamu, Yan Yu (also winner of the U21 League Player of the Year) and Xie Wenneng who rose to prominence in the professional league. As a representative of the young generation of Chinese women's football, Shao Ziqin, a striker of Jiangsu Wuxi women's football team who performed well in the Women's Super League, was also recognized by the experts of the jury and won the opportunity to participate in the competition for the 2022 China Golden Boy Award.
The 2022 China Golden Globe Awards will also award the "China Futsal Golden Globe Award", and jointly launch awards such as "Best Football Esports Club of the Year" and "Best Football Esports Mr. of the Year" with Tencent Interactive Entertainment. The 2022 China Golden Globe Awards ceremony is expected to be held in March this year.
All awards of the China Golden Ball Awards are selected for football players with Chinese nationality, and the initiator of the selection, Sports Media, will vote together with judges and specially invited judges from more than 100 authoritative media in the United Nations and internationally, and the voting deadline is January 18, and the details of the ballot will be announced in Football Weekly.
2022 China Golden Globe Award candidate
Chen Pu (Shandong Taishan), Cheng Jin (Zhejiang Team), Deng Hanwen (Wuhan Three Towns), Jiang Guangtai (Guangzhou Team/Shanghai Port), Jiang Shenglong (Shanghai Shenhua), Lin Liangming (Dalian), Liu Dianzuo (Wuhan Three Towns), Liu Tao (Chengdu Rongcheng), Tan Long (Changchun Yatai), Wang Shangyuan (Songshan Longmen, Henan), Wu Lei (Spaniard/Shanghai Port), Xie Pengfei (Wuhan Three Towns), Zhang Xizhe (Beijing Guoan), Zhang Yuning (Beijing Guoan), Zheng Zheng (Shandong Taishan)
Candidate for the 2022 China Women's Golden Globe Awards
Shen Mengyu (Scottish Celtic Women), Tang Jiali (Tottenham Hotspur, England/Madrid CFF Women), Wang Linlin (Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank Women), Wang Shanshan (Beijing Women), Wang Shuang (Louisville Athletic Women), Wang Xiaoxue (Wuhan Chegujiang University Women's Football), Xiao Yuyi (Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank/Adelaide United Women's Football), Zhang Linyan (Wuhan Chegujiang University/Swiss Grasshopper Women's Football), Zhang Rui (Shandong Sports Lottery Women's Football), Zhu Yu (Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank Women's Football)
2022 China Golden Shuai Award candidate
Chang Weiwei (Wuhan Chegujiang University Women's Football Team), Hao Wei (Shandong Taishan), Li Weifeng (Guangzhou City), Shui Qingxia (Women, China Women's Football Team), Wu Jingui (Shanghai Shenhua), Xie Hui (Dalian People)
2022 China Golden Boy Award candidate
U21: Eifeldin Eskar (Guangzhou), Ablikim Abdulshamu (Zhejiang), Baihlamu Abduwaili (Shandong Taishan/Jinan Xingzhou), Gao Tianyu (Zhejiang), Hu Hetao (Chengdu Rongcheng), Liu Guobao (Shandong Taishan), Liu Zhurun (Shanghai Port), Shao Ziqin (F, Jiangsu Wuxi Women's Football), Xie Wenneng (Qingdao Manatee), Yan Yu (Beijing Guoan)
U17: Huang Jiaxin (F, Shanghai Football Association), Liming (Shanghai Port), Liu Chen (F, Shandong Football Association), Ning Fangze (Zhejiang Team), Qiao Ruiqi (F, Jiangsu Football Association), Wang Dingkun (Hubei Youth Star), Wang Yudong (Zhejiang Football Association), Ye Daoxin (Zhejiang Team)
2022 China Futsal Golden Globe Award candidate
Chen Zhiheng (Shenzhen Nanling Iron Wolf), Ding Shunjie (Shanghai Jiading Jiaoding Engineering University), Gu Haitao (Ningbo Cixi Guanhaiwei), Ji Shenghua (Ningbo Cixi Guanhaiwei), Shen Siming (Hangzhou Qiantang Lake University), Zhang Bin (Hebei Shijiazhuang Fumei)
Note: Candidates are listed in alphabetical order.
[Reporter] Zhu Xiaolong
【Author】 Zhu Xiaolong
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client