In the 1991 European Ballon d'Or Awards, a "shooting machine" and super shooter from Ligue 1 stood out from many strong competitors and finally won the European Ballon d'Or award that year, and this player was the French star - Jean Blanc. Pierre. Papan.
In 1991, the main striker from The Ligue 1 Marseille, Papan, scored 23 goals in the League and won the Ligue 1 Golden Boot, scoring 6 goals in the European Champions Cup and was named the champions cup top scorer; the national team led France to 8 consecutive wins in the European Championship qualifiers, Papan scored 7 key goals, including 3 goals in the life-and-death battle against Spain and the Czech Republic, killing the strongest opponents.
Papan's technical characteristics are strong shooting, high-speed running, volley scoring is his best play, good sense of grabbing points, strong explosiveness, high shooting success rate known as "shooting machine".
Since that year was not the year of the International Competition, the performance of players at the club naturally became the largest weight to measure.
Among the main competitors, the so-called "Little World Cup" Serie A hegemon, ac Milan, which owns the Dutch three musketeers, was taken away by the unknown Sampdoria team; in the Champions Cup, it was Marseille led by Papan who eliminated the championship. Due to poor results, Milan's players did not qualify for the Ballon d'Or. Inter Milan, led by Mateus, won the UEFA Cup with a 2-1 victory over Roma in the final. Manchester United from England with Mark. Hughes' two goals beat Barcelona in La Liga 2-1 to win that year's European Cup Winners' Cup.
Papan led Marseille to the final of the Champions League, their opponent was the Yugoslav Red Star Belgrade team with "three musketeers", after a 120-minute 0-0 battle, in the end, Marseille lost on penalties and the Red Star team won the Champions Cup.
Although he lost in the final of the European Champions League, in that year's Golden Globe Awards, Papan won a competition without opponents: in a vote of 29 judges, he scored 141 points, and the score was 145 points!
Most of the judges chose Papan for a number of reasons: first, his goal was very spectacular; second, he had always maintained a high goal rate; second, france's performance was well known in Europe; of course, Marseille completed the "impossible task" of defeating ac Milan; and finally, objectively speaking, there was a lack of weighty competitors that year.
In this selection, Mateus, Pantsev and Savičević are tied for second place. After Kopa (1958 Ballon d'Or winner) and Platini (1983, 1984, 1985 Ballon d'Or winner), Papan brought his fifth Ballon d'Or to French football.
ranking:
1. Papan (Marseille, France) 141 points
2. Mateus (Germany, Inter Milan), Pantsev (Red Star Belgrade, former Yugoslavia),
Savičević (Former Yugoslavia, Red Star Belgrade) 42 points
The Ballon d'Or award by Striker Papan is the last glory in the history of the Ligue 1 Ballon d'Or.