A new season of sports
Before the start of the Chinese Super League, the 2023 Chinese Football Golden Ball Award and other awards were finally announced, among which the women's football team Zhang Linyan won the Women's Golden Ball Award, Wang Yudong and Bai Helamu won the Golden Boy Award, and the Golden Shuai Award was given to Tianjin Jinmen Tiger coach Yu Genwei. In the last most important men's football Golden Ball Award, Wu Lei defeated Wei Shihao and Yu Hanchao to become the winner of the men's football Golden Ball Award in the 2023 season, and it is also the fourth time that Wu Lei has won the award. Basically, it can be said that every award is well deserved.
Wu Lei scored 18 goals and 6 assists in the 2023 Chinese Super League, tied for second place in the scorer list with Mushekwe, and only 1 goal gap with the Golden Boot Leonardo. The statistic of 6 assists can also make him the 8th in the assist list, and it can be said that Wu Lei has shown a very high level in both goals and assists. Of course, we can't deny that he was in poor form in the second half of last season and the national team was average.
Wu Lei deserved to win the Golden Ball, but there are still a large number of fans who think that Wu Lei is not qualified because of his poor performance in the national team. But we have to say that the Ballon d'Or is not about who has been in good form lately, nor who has performed better than who has performed in the national team, but about the performance of the whole season. Wei Shihao and Yu Hanchao did continue to highlight at the end of the season, but no Chinese player was better than Wu Lei in the performance of the entire Chinese Super League season. The number of goals scored is 18 and ranks second in the scorer list, and there is only one local scorer in the top 10 scorers. Ranked 8th in the assists list, only Barton has more assists than Wu Lei.
If such data can't win the Golden Globe Award, then whoever has this qualification will have better data than Wu Lei. At the same time, judging from the number of votes, Wu Lei is also far ahead of Wei Shihao and Yu Hanchao. In the voting session, Wu Lei scored 510 points, more than Wei Shihao's 231 and Yu Hanchao's 187 points combined. If we have to look at the attacking players, do we have to look at them? Can't you look at the defenders? So good, let's take a look at the defensive data, the local player with the first steal is Wang Jianming with 58 times, and the local player with the first interception is Huang Ruifeng, do you know them well?
There is no meaning for anyone here, since it is an award, objectively speaking, we are looking at the data and honors, there is no problem with Wu Lei's data, and there is no problem with winning the Super League championship in terms of honor. It can only be said that Wu Lei's performance in the national team is really poor, and he should indeed be criticized by fans, but for the selection of the Golden Ball, no one is more qualified than him to win the award. Of course, Wu Lei winning the award is indeed the sadness of Chinese football, and his state can win the award, which proves that others are not as good as him.