Ground football: Ronaldo thought I was going to assist him

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Following the awards ceremony, the headline article in the Records newspaper, written by Jiang Yunzhu, quickly dominated the pages.

The main reason is that the accompanying pictures are too stunning.

Deng Kai sat sideways on the lawn, holding the UEFA Cup trophy in his left hand and the Best Player trophy in his right. Around his neck were the championship medal and the All-Star medal, and in front of him were the Golden Boot trophy and the Assist King trophy.

They were adorned with gold and silver, and were incredibly wealthy.

Many players go through their entire careers without winning any of these trophies or medals, and it's almost impossible for many superstar players to achieve these honors in the same season.

Some media outlets have even given Deng Kai a nickname – the "honor harvester"!

However, The Sun quickly copied and amplified the news.

They also released a photo of Deng Kai and Hathaway kissing, which listed Deng Kai's sports honors to date and Hathaway's film and television individual honors to date, indicating that this was a marriage of geniuses, a match made in heaven.

They successfully brought a sports-related news item to the entertainment and even the social sections.

As a result, the "European Golden Boot" award announced by UEFA afterwards seemed to go unnoticed.

As expected, Jardel won the European Golden Boot this year with 42 goals and 84 points.

Henrik Larsson, a striker for Scottish Premier League champions Celtic, scored 35 goals and 70 points, winning the European Silver Boot.

Cristiano Ronaldo, a young player from Sporting Lisbon in the Portuguese league, won the European Bronze Boot with 34 goals and 68 points.

After the award was announced, many star players expressed their dissatisfaction.

Crespo, the Serie A Golden Boot winner who plays for Lazio and has scored 26 goals, believes: "While it may sound arrogant, Serie A is currently the best league in the world. It's incorrect to compare Serie A's statistics with those of other leagues."

"Or perhaps the goal coefficient in Serie A would be tripled, which is what fans would prefer to see. Otherwise, the European Golden Boot award will become increasingly less recognized."

Javier Hasselbaink, the Premier League Golden Boot winner who plays for Chelsea and has scored 23 goals, also said: "Although the European Golden Boot award has returned to a points system, the points system in some leagues is unbalanced."

"For example, the Portuguese league has produced the European Golden Boot and the European Bronze Boot winners, but is the Portuguese league really that competitive? I don't think so, at least not to the extent that it can influence two of the top three teams in Europe."

Reporter: "But Sporting Lisbon, where Ronaldo plays, is the UEFA Cup champion, so the Portuguese league is probably still very competitive."

Hasselbaink: "And what about Porto's Jardel? What have they achieved in European competitions?"

Raul, who plays for Real Madrid and has scored 24 goals in La Liga, said with a smile: "I don't care about the European Golden Boot award. I care more about what kind of honor the team can win."

"Of course we should acknowledge the excellence of some strikers outside the top five leagues, such as Cristiano Ronaldo. But we should also see that some smaller leagues are deliberately creating high goal tallies, and this behavior should be curbed, at least I think it should be."

Subsequently, Sergei Barbarets and Ebe Sand, the Bundesliga Golden Boot winners who played for Hamburg and Schalke 04 respectively and scored 22 goals, also expressed various grievances, but not particularly strong ones, because the Bundesliga's current position is difficult to compare with the top three leagues.

Moreover, even if their coefficients in the Portuguese and Scottish leagues decrease, they still won't be considered for the European Golden Boot.

Pauleta, the French Ligue 1 Golden Boot winner who plays for Porto and has scored 20 goals, praised Ronaldo's European Bronze Boot, believing that the young man has shown the high level of a Portuguese striker and is worth looking forward to.

As a key member of Portugal's golden generation, Pauleta is eager for the country's young people to grow up quickly.

Although it's too late for the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Japan and South Korea, these young players could still contribute to the golden generation at the 2004 European Championship if they work hard.

This argument infuriated Ronaldo.

But Ronaldo is a straightforward person, and he didn't know how to respond to that claim because those players do play in higher-level, more challenging leagues.

Cristiano Ronaldo is the kind of person who wouldn't make those "shameless" statements until he's reached that level himself.

In contrast, there are some people who clearly lack the ability and will never have it in the future, yet they always talk about being the best, saying things like "I don't care about other people's opinions" or "I want to be the first version of myself," living in a state of limbo, and who knows when they might fall from the clouds.

However, Deng Kai is not someone to be trifled with. After landing in Lisbon, he told reporters, "To be honest, I also think there are problems with the European Golden Boot award."

"Winning the European Bronze Boot is unfair to Ronaldo. UEFA should take into account the number of goals scored in cup competitions and European competitions, especially European competitions."

"The odds for the Champions League group stage are 2.5, the UEFA Cup group stage is 2, and the domestic cup group stage is 1.5. The odds for the top three leagues in the Europa League are also 2, the odds for fourth to sixth are 1.5, the odds for sixth to tenth are 1.2, and the odds for tenth and above are all 1..."

"This is what truly reflects the prestige of the European Golden Boot."

"And according to this calculation method... no, as long as European competitions are taken into account, no matter how you calculate it, this year's European Golden Boot will only be won by one person... Cristiano Ronaldo!"

The reporters were all astonished.

Deng Kai really dares to speak his mind.

Not satisfied with European bronze boots, he actually wanted to try and get a European gold boot for his friend.

But you know what, Cristiano Ronaldo really is that good this season.

Thirty goals in the Portuguese Primeira Liga, fourteen goals in the UEFA Cup, and one goal in the Portuguese Cup, for a total of forty-five goals in a single season!

Exceptional efficiency, explosive goal-scoring ability!

That is, he is in the Portuguese league. If he were in a league similar to the Portuguese league, such as Ligue 1 or the Bundesliga, and had the reputation of being one of the top five leagues, he would become a new generation of top striker in no time, comparable to Owen the year before last and Shevchenko last year.

Deng Kai's "complaint" brought the young superstar Cristiano Ronaldo back into the public eye.

Some fans even changed the number on their Cristiano Ronaldo jerseys to "45" to commemorate Ronaldo's incredible performance in his first Portuguese league season.

However, soon enough, someone calculated Deng Kai's single-season statistics.

I don't know, I was taken aback.

Sixteen goals and twenty-one assists in the Portuguese league.

Three goals and five assists in the Portuguese Cup.

Fourteen goals and twelve assists in the UEFA Cup.

He scored 33 goals and provided 38 assists in a single season.

To be named the European assist king...if such an honor even exists.

Unfortunately, while there is an official European Golden Boot award, there is no European Assist King award.

With goals and assists, Deng Kai has been directly involved in a staggering 71 goals this season, surpassing the total number of goals scored by 60% of teams in Serie A, La Liga, the Premier League, the Bundesliga, and Ligue 1 last season!

What does this mean?

This means that, theoretically speaking, any team with a weak attack could instantly gain 30% to 20% more attacking power if they acquired Duncan!

Of course, this is only from a theoretical perspective.

Based on the facts, no one believes that Deng Kai can continue his stellar performance from this season.

Sporting Lisbon will also face a tough season next year.

I like playing football on the ground: Ronaldo thought I was going to assist him.