Yesterday I had to watch a pitiful show is the FIFA The Best Awards 2018 held in London. I was completely outraged that in a ceremony that supposedly honors the "best" of the year, it will end up rewarding players who clearly did not deserve those recognitions. Yesterday I talked a lot about how the election of Luka Modric as the best player of the season was wrong, but it would explode inside if I do not talk about how this FIFA prize has become a shame and a total shame.
Believe me I lost the desire to live with every minute I saw that stupid award. The truth is completely disappointed, especially because I've always been an enthusiast but what happened at this FIFA gala made me lose my faith in humanity. There were so many outrageous and ridiculous things that I find it hard to choose a place to start talking about.
Obviously the big theft of the night was to give The Best award to Luka Modric when he was not even the best player of his team, a merit that Cristiano Ronaldo clearly had. Already of this I spoke a lot yesterday, nevertheless the other prizes delivered were equal or more scandalous.
What can we say of the Puskas Award, I felt a total indignation when I saw that they gave it to the insipid and insipid goal of Salah. When they passed the count of the candidates agreed with my friends that the Egyptian's was the most normal of the ten. Leaving aside the fantastic goals of Cristiano Ronaldo and Bale is an insult to football and a clear punishment of FIFA for both cracks for not having attended the gala. Let FIFA not lie to us, this is not a prize for the best goal, but the player who can get more votes in his favor. I imagine the millions of Egyptians glued to the PC voting for their compatriot.
The Puskas was a scandal, but the prize for the best goalkeeper was scandalous. Having Schmeichel, Lloris and Courtois as nominees is simply an insult to Jan Oblak, Ter Stegen and Keylor Navas who were really the best goalkeepers of the season. Sometimes I think that those who choose the candidates for these awards do not watch football and have mental problems. And who explains to me that the goalkeeper in the 11th ideal of the FifPro was De Gea, who was not even among the servants to goalkeeper of the season? A total fiasco.
Now that we bring up the ideal 11th FifPro, it is simply insulting to include Daniel Alves as the right-back and leave out Salah, who was nominated as the best player. Do you see what I mean? It just does not make sense.
The problem lies in the voting system proposed by FIFA, which is simply stupid. For example, to reward the winner of The Best, 4 big groups vote: the fans, the captains of the National Teams, the National Teams coaches and the journalists; the vote of each of these groups is worth 25% of the election. The truth is that the public simply is not qualified to choose the best player, because their opinion is more fanatical than objective, they are not able to discern and choose in this type of questions. And in the case of captains and coaches, they are not able to choose either, because first they do not see so much football as to know who has been better and second because they always prioritize the votes towards their teammates or compatriot. Only thus can it be understood that Raphael Varane or Kevin De Bruyne receive votes as the best player of the season. I have always been in favor of the specialized press being in charge of choosing these distinctions because even though they also tend to be wrong, their opinion will always be more objective.
The truth is that what I saw at the FIFA gala did not leave me wanting to see any of his awards in my life. The reality is that The Best Award became a simple popularity contest, are the Teen Choice Awards of football. For me this award has lost all its value, it does not matter, it is an award of lies and for me it does not mean anything. I hope that the journalists of France Football reason and can discern who was really the best player of the season to be able to maintain the hope of seeing winners who really were the best of the year. But I will have to resign myself to understand that none of these individual prizes has any meaning, that they are just lying awards.
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