Reborn on Top of Football

“So I think it was reasonable to call’European Footballer’ before 1995. After the reform in 1995, it is not very reasonable, because the best stars in the world generally play in Europe. Although it is limited to the European League. , But the European League itself is also selected from the world. After all, it’s not in Pele’s time. It’s just that there are still formal restrictions, so it’s okay to not change its name for the time being. But it won’t work anymore. It can only be called the Golden Globe. It’s called the European Footballer.” Wang Ai said this, and added: “In fact, the Golden Globe and World Footballer from 1995 to the present have overlapped many times. There will only be more overlaps in the future. We will not rule out the future. The possibility of the merger of the two awards.”

“The two big prizes are merged? Will it?”

“The possibility is not low.” Wang Ai nodded: “After last year’s reform, the Golden Globe Award has completely overlapped with the World Footballer in the selection range. It has been highly overlapped before. After this reform, the Golden Globe Award must be re-established. According to my own selection rules, if both parties issue the same person for a long time, why not merge?”

“After that, there will only be one grand prize? That’s the veritable number one in the world.”

Hearing this, Wang Ai shook his head and thought for a while and said: “But in the longer term, it might not be split again and do it by myself.”

“Then why?” Duan Xuan’s thoughts were completely deflected by Wang Aila.

“The Golden Globe and the World Footballer, after all, are awarded by different organizations. Although the final award recipients of the two parties may be the same, the interests of the two parties are inconsistent. There are still differences in how they operate. After a period of time after the merger, it might be because of their respective operations. The directions are inconsistent and part ways.”

Duan Xuan frowned and thought, Wang Ai interrupted when he saw it, “I mean it’s deep, right? Then say something else?”

“Hey, no need!” Duan Xuan hurriedly waved his hand: “Then you can spread it to everyone, don’t watch the game for many years, some rules are still unknown.”

Wang Ai scratched his head: “I think no one wants to go to class, right?”

“You can speak more vividly.” Liu Jianhong roared from the side of the audience standing below.

“All right.” Wang Ai said after thinking about it: “This modern football actually has two systems coexisting. One is the commercial football system and the other is the honor football system. Uh, maybe no one has said that before, right? I don’t know whether my definition is accurate or not. Let me just say this, and I will explain the meaning to you.”

“It’s the professional league and the national team, right?”

“Yes, this is more intuitive. In fact, it can be regarded as the difference between the Club World Cup and the World Cup. On the surface, one is the highest stage of professional clubs and the other is the highest stage of national teams, but the nature of operation is quite different.”

“Come on, Dr. Wang, take a sip of tea and talk slowly.” Duan Xuan pushed the teacup.

Wang Ai smiled and took a sip: “To put it simply, the club needs to make money to maintain it, and the national team does not need to make money. The first task of the club to raise the team is to sell tickets, sell jerseys, and sell broadcast rights. This is the core task. If you can’t make any money, you will cut your expenses, even sell the club, and will never lose money. But the national team is not. The national team, including the Olympic team and the national youth team, are all competing Honor is the core task. Although the national team does not exclude making money, when there is a conflict between making money and achievement, it will choose achievement. Therefore, although the two systems often use the same group of people, the values, evaluation system and direction are different. the same.”

Wang Ai looked at the audience and continued: “Commercial football, or professional league, cannot be separated from star players. Because star players love to watch and follow more people, when he enters the field, the TV broadcast rate, The jersey tickets are sold well. But in the national team, it is different. Strictly speaking, the national team does not have star players, only athletes. Clubs can lose part of their competitiveness in order to make more money, but the national team usually does not. So every time it arrives With the advent of international competitions, some national teams will lose star players because of different evaluation systems.”

The audience in the audience nodded frequently, and Duan Xuan interjected: “Then what does this have to do with the division and integration of the two awards?”

“The Golden Globes is a media award, organized by the French Football magazine. The Western media, like clubs, is to make money and sell. The World Player of Football is the organization award, which is awarded by FIFA. FIFA Although it is also a commercial organization, the members of FIFA are the football governing bodies of each member country. Therefore, the influence of honor football on FIFA is greater than the influence of “French Football” magazine, so honor football has more influence on the world football players. It also has a greater impact on the Golden Globe. So the two parties may merge because of the Golden Globe reforms and overlapping selection ranges. But in essence, the difference in goals, orientation and evaluation system will cause some conflicts between the two parties, so there will be some after the merger. The possibility of breaking up again.”

“You mean, the Golden Globes focus more on commercial sports. The World Player of Football focuses more on honor sports?”

“Yes.” Wang Ai nodded and looked at the audience in the audience: “For example, in 2000, World Footballer, Zidane, Ballon d’Or, Figo. Why? Because of the European Cup of Honor Football. France is the champion, and Zidane is the core. In the European Champions Cup of commercial football, Real Madrid was the champion and Figo was the core. Therefore, the World Footballer of the year gave Zidane the honorary footballer who performed better. The ball prize was given to Figo who performed better in commercial football.”

The audience looked at each other and suddenly applauded Wang Ai. For the audience in 2008, this is a long knowledge.

Wang Ai added: “Of course, except for the World Cup, the results of the past three World Cups were the same. They were the core of the championship team. FIFA has an honorable football factor, but it is also a commercial organization, and the World Cup itself The commercial value is also very great. Well, from this perspective, last year, oh, the year before last, Zidane and I lost to Cannavaro, it was not wrong.

Duan Xuan smiled suddenly: “You mean that if there was no World Cup last year, you would have won one year in advance?”

Wang Ai also happily said: “If I hadn’t had the Golden Boot in the World Cup in Germany, maybe my ranking would not be so high. Anyway, in the World Cup, the core advantage of the champion team is too obvious. After all, that is what the whole world sees. .”

At this time, Liu Jianhong asked a question on behalf of the audience: “Xiao Wang, since you said that commercial sports and honor sports have many intersections, does commercial sports actually assume the responsibility of delivering talents for honor sports?”

Seeing Wang Ai nodded, Liu Jianhong added: “So is there any way to prosper our league immediately? What do you think is the way to improve the level of our league?”