Ground football: Ronaldo thought I was going to assist him

Rumors suggest that Manchester United will secure the signing of Forlán this winter transfer window.

As for why they didn't sign Ronaldo...

The Champions League match against Barcelona was Sporting Lisbon's last Champions League game of the first half of the season.

They have at least four more Champions League matches in the second half of the season.

Both Sporting Lisbon and Cristiano Ronaldo himself cherish every upcoming Champions League match.

Therefore, Ronaldo will not leave the team during the winter transfer window.

Otherwise, even if he went to Manchester United, he wouldn't be able to play in the Champions League, which would be a huge loss.

Moreover, most of the heavyweight stars in this phase only transfer during the summer transfer window.

This is called the face of the card.

December 9th, the fourteenth round of the Portuguese Super League.

Sporting Lisbon narrowly defeated Varzin by two goals.

December 15th, the 15th round of the Portuguese Super League.

Sporting Lisbon narrowly defeated Benfica 4-3.

On December 16th, the first installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, "The Fellowship of the Ring," was released in North America.

It grossed $45 million in its opening weekend, easily beating Tom Cruise's Vanilla Sky to become the top-grossing film in North America that week.

It raked in $73.1 million in five days, showing great potential to become the year's box office champion.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, this year's box office champion will either be "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" or "Harry Potter and the Mysterious Wizard of Oz".

On December 20th, the FIFA World Player of the Year Award ceremony was held in grand style.

This year's FIFA World Player of the Year tenth place is quite outrageous, because it's Deng Kai!

He received both the FIFA World Player of the Year and the Ballon d'Or awards in the same year.

The reason it's considered outrageous is that the "World Player of the Year" award has a time lag.

Because he values ​​the player's international influence more.

A player typically only begins to have influence after achieving success in their chosen field. Spreading that influence globally takes even longer.

It's almost impossible for a player nominated for the Ballon d'Or for the first time to make it into the top ten.

Players who are shortlisted for the Ballon d'Or for the first time almost never make it into the FIFA World Player of the Year top ten.

Of course, there are advantages to being behind. Even after you've fallen out of the top ten for the Ballon d'Or, you might still be in the top ten or even the top five for the FIFA World Player of the Year.

This year's ninth place in the FIFA World Player of the Year award goes to Francesco Totti, the "Wolf King" of Rome.

Eighth place goes to Rivaldo of Barcelona.

The seventh place goes to AC Milan's Shevchenko.

The sixth place goes to Kahn of Bayern Munich.

To be honest, that's a bit low, considering Kahn was competing with Raul for the Ballon d'Or this year.

This also fully demonstrates that the goalkeeper position has a relatively weak overall influence internationally.

Fifth place goes to Juan Sebastian Veron, who plays for Manchester United.

Even considering his performance last season, this ranking is inflated.

This should be the result of his ranking last season, Manchester United's operations, and his performance this season; it is theoretically his best possible result.

Fourth place goes to Real Madrid superstar Zinedine Zidane.

Third place goes to the newly crowned Ballon d'Or winner, Raul.

Second place goes to Manchester United's star player David Beckham, who is very close to first place.

The number one spot goes to Figo, the Portuguese superstar from Real Madrid!

As for Owen, who should have been in the top three for the FIFA World Player of the Year, without the five-time champion title, he could only rank outside the top fifteen.

Overall, this ranking of the FIFA World Player of the Year is clearly controversial.

Figo winning the FIFA World Player of the Year award in his most "mediocre" year seems somewhat illogical.

Furthermore, considering that Deng Kai doesn't have much influence in other areas, Figo's votes certainly didn't come from the portion that Deng Kai lost.

Where did it come from?

This stems from Figo's narrow defeat to Zidane in the FIFA World Player of the Year award the previous year.

Zidane certainly has more championship titles.

But Figo's role in the Portuguese team was simply too dazzling.

Leading Portugal, a third-rate European team with inherent weaknesses, to the semi-finals of the European Championship is an achievement that is not much less impressive than Zidane's.

Moreover, that was the year Figo transferred to Real Madrid, leaving a very deep impression on people.

So this is compensation.

But this attempt to make amends hurt Beckham.

Beckham has once again missed out on the top honor in football.

Both the FIFA World Player of the Year and the Ballon d'Or have been exceptionally harsh on him.

The biggest highlight of this awards ceremony was, of course, the selection of the FIFA World Player of the Year.

However, there were also many other exciting moments.

For example, the FIFA All-Star Team:

Totti, Figo

Effenberg, Zidane, Vieira, Duncan, Beckham

Roberto Carlos, Nesta, Lizarazu

Kahn

The defining feature of this best XI is that it includes five midfielders.

Furthermore, considering Figo's role at both Barcelona and Real Madrid, you could even classify him as a midfielder.

In a three-center-back formation, both Carlos and Lizarazu are proper full-backs, which is enough to illustrate the special nature of this roster.

This was originally a list of 442, but someone forcibly changed it to 352.

This person is none other than... Deng Kai!

FIFA is still FIFA; Deng Kai wasn't even on the list initially.

But as they discovered that Deng Kai's votes had broken into the top ten, they had to start paying more attention to this player.

Six-time champion!

Six MVPs!

In the final round of the first group stage of this season's Champions League, a do-or-die match between Sporting Lisbon and Lazio, Deng Kai scored three goals and provided two assists, displaying an outrageous performance!

Sporting Lisbon, who had gone winless in the first three rounds, were lifted into the Champions League round of 16 with a three-game winning streak.

Currently, it seems that Sporting Lisbon still has a chance to advance even in the second group stage.

Honestly, his leadership skills are better than several players in the FIFA World XI.

If a player like this isn't included in the best XI, FIFA might agree, but the fans won't!

In addition, Deng Kai personally went on stage at this grand event.

He scored the goal in the second leg of last season's UEFA Cup match against Kaiserslautern, dribbling past six players and nutmegging the goalkeeper, which earned him the title of European Goal of the Season!

This award is also the precursor to the future "Puskash Prize".

When accepting the award, Deng Kai used his humor to defuse the hostility of many fans who were hearing his name for the first time: "Thank you FIFA for recognizing my performance over the past year."

"I regret that we faced Lazio in the Champions League a little too early. If we had met them after this awards ceremony, my backheel slip and the free kick goal would have earned me another award."

"Of course, I won't wallow in self-pity. I will strive to deliver even more spectacular goals for the fans in the coming year."

"I also hope that fans all over the world will pay more attention to Sporting Lisbon's matches and follow my personal updates on Dongqiudi! For the next week, I will be drawing ten lucky viewers from my Dongqiudi account's followers every night at 8 PM."

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