Football Hijacked Vote
Emre Can was voted National Player of the Year by an overwhelming majority
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Emre Can received a special present for his 30th birthday
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Football fans had three weeks to vote for the DFB national player of the year. The official voting now ended. The surprising result is legal, but was deliberately manipulated from outside. The DFB takes it with humor.
The German national team has had a difficult year. The hoped-for turnaround after the sobering preliminary round exit at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar never materialized. The dismissal of Hansi Flick didn’t change that. Under Julian Nagelsmann there is no trace of optimism; rather, sporting concerns are growing ahead of the home European Championships this summer.
The DFB team will play eleven international matches in 2023, and the selection has only won three games. Sporting low points were the next disaster against Japan (1:4) and most recently the two defeats against Turkey (2:3) and neighbors Austria (0:2). Despite all the mixed performances, the “National Team Fan Club” traditionally called for voting for the national player of the year at the end of December. The 15 national players with the most minutes played in the last calendar year were up for election.
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Within the first 24 hours, the idea of jokingly making Can the winner of the vote arose on X (formerly Twitter). The Borussia Dortmund midfielder, who celebrated his 30th birthday on the final day of the vote, has had an average to weak year in the DFB uniform. Recently he was no longer in the squad four times.
Can follows Musiala in the DFB voting
The ironic idea was well received and Can quickly led the rankings by a large margin. The voting ended on Friday afternoon and Can could no longer be caught. 64.6 percent of the almost 50,000 votes went to Can, who clearly distanced Niclas Füllkrug (11.7 percent) and Jamal Musiala (9.4 percent). The DFB took it with humor and added a laughing emoji to the congratulations.
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The national team fan club introduced fan voting in 2010, and Bastian Schweinsteiger won the premiere vote. Mesut Özil was chosen five times, in 2014, the year of the World Cup triumph, Toni Kroos won. The last three winners were Manuel Neuer (2020), Joshua Kimmich (2021) and Jamal Musila (2022).