Why didn't Messi win UEFA of the Year? World Cup champions fall under the spell of the Golden Globe also hanging?
On September 1, Beijing time, UEFA's best player of the year was announced, and Messi did not win. People can't help but ask, as a World Cup champion, why didn't Mei Qiu Wang win this award?
According to UEFA, the Player of the Year award is given to "recognise the best player who played for a football club within the scope of UEFA's member associations last season". Players are judged on their performance in all competitions throughout the season, including club and national teams.
It was voted on by journalists from UEFA's 55 associations and 80 managers who coached UEFA last season, with five points for first place, three points for second place and one point for third place.
This determines the difference between UEFA's Player of the Year and the Ballon d'Or. Although the former also looks at the performance of the World Cup, it undoubtedly attaches more importance to UEFA's own events, such as the Champions League and the European Cup, especially in the "fist product" Champions League.
In fact, since the award was created in 2011, there has only been one time when the winner was not last season's Champions League winner! It was in the 2011-12 season and the winner of the best player was Andres Iniesta, why? Euro 2012 winner!
World Cup winners are not favored. The 2014 World Cup winner was Germany, but Player of the Year went to Champions League winner Cristiano Ronaldo. The 2018 World Cup winner was France, but Player of the Year went to Champions League winner Modric, although he lost the World Cup final.
Therefore, although Messi won the World Cup and was crowned the king, he only scored 4 goals in the Champions League and stopped at the round of 16. And Haaland and De Bruyne won the treble, especially the Champions League, one is the Champions League Golden Boot and the other is the Champions League assist king, so UEFA prefers the latter.
So the question is, this year's Ballon d'Or, is Messi also hanging. The Ballon d'Or has made it clear that the importance given to the individual performance of the players the most seems to be bad for the king.
However, this does not mean just looking at the number of goals, otherwise it would be the European Golden Boot. Messi has the most assists, the most goals and the best World Cup performance, so he will remain the favourite for the Ballon d'Or.
Don't forget, Messi is very favored by the Ballon d'Or, has won 7 times without winning the World Cup, and now he holds the Hercules Cup for the first time and is officially crowned the king of the ball, how can there be no reason not to win?
Of course, the World Cup champion also has the Golden Ball curse, the last World Cup winner to win the Golden Ball, or Cannavaro in 2006, in 2010, 2014 and 2018, the World Cup winner did not win the Ballon d'Or, this year it depends on whether Messi can win.