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Wu Lei (left) won the China Golden Globe Award
The annual Chinese football review-the China Golden Globe Awards ceremony was held in Beijing the night before. The winners of the 2021 China Golden Globe Award, the China Women’s Golden Globe Award and the China Golden Coach Award have been announced successively. Wang Shuang won the Chinese Women’s Golden Globe Award for the fourth time, and Wu Lei of the Espanyol team won the Chinese Golden Globe Award again after a year with his outstanding performance in the national team competition in 2021.
The final competition for the Golden Globe was launched among three players who had traveled to Europe – Wu Lei, Guo Tianyu and Zhang Yuning. After the votes of 119 senior media people at home and abroad, Wu Lei, who created the Chinese men’s football singles world preliminaries scoring record, scored 405 points and won the China Golden Ball for the third time. Guo Tianyu and Zhang Yuning, the two high school center players who also played the best performances of their Chinese Super League careers in the 2021 season, ranked second with 257 and 240 points, respectively.
Wang Shuang (left) won the Chinese Women’s Golden Globe Award for the fourth time
With his outstanding performance in the Tokyo Olympic qualifiers, the National Games and the Women’s Super League last year, star Wang Shuang won the Chinese Women’s Golden Globe Award for the fourth time, becoming the player with the most awards in the history of the Chinese Golden Globe Award. In the voting of the 10-member special jury group, Wang Shuang won the first place with 52 points, and Tang Jiali and Shen Mengyu, who are currently studying abroad, ranked second and third. At the award ceremony, Wang Shuang received the trophy from Han Jian, her coach in her youth and the football youth coach of Wuhan Dongxihu District.
The 2021 China Golden Coach Award, which symbolizes the honor of the best Chinese football coach of the year, will be contested by Shandong Taishan team coach Hao Wei, Changchun Yatai team coach Chen Yang and National Games women’s football champion coach Shui Qingxia. In the end, Hao Wei, who led the Shandong Taishan team to be crowned the double champion for the third time, became the first successful defender in the history of the Chinese Golden Coach Award. His total score was 565 points, surpassing Chen Yang and Shui Qingxia by an absolute advantage.
However, Shui Qingxia finally won the special award of the Golden Globe Award Organizing Committee – she led the Chinese women’s football team to regain the Asian Cup throne after 16 years. In fact, at the time of the Ballon d’Or voting, the Women’s Asian Cup had not yet started, otherwise Shui Qingxia would probably have won the “Golden Handsome Award” over Hao Wei.
Xu Genbao (left) presented the award to Zhu Chenjie
Another major Shanghai element in this selection is the young Shanghai Shenhua central defender Zhu Chenjie. The 21-year-old local talent who has just scored his first goal for the national team in the top 12 and became the first “post-00” scorer in the history of the Chinese men’s football team won the China Golden Boy Award again after 2019. . His total score of 338 points surpassed the 247 points of Shanghai Seaport forward Liu Zhurun and the 202 points of Guangzhou defender Wu Shaocong. Before Zhu Chenjie departed for West Asia with the national team, the organizing committee invited his mentor Xu Genbao to award him the China Golden Boy Award at the Chongming Genbao Football Base.
Of course, in the slump of Chinese football in 2021, there is indeed a lack of stars or new stars with enough appeal. The winners of the men’s and women’s Golden Globes are also old faces – Wu Lei and Wang Shuang, who have won the award for the third and fourth time respectively. Although the performance of the two of them last year is no longer at their peak, it is still difficult for anyone to win. can impact their status. This is enough to show from one side that the development of Chinese football has stagnated in recent years. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Guan Yin)
