Mario Gotze, who scored six goals and provided 15 assists in 33 Bundesliga appearances last season, was one of the heroes behind Dortmund's return to the Bundesliga title after nine years. "

Gotze was selected for the national team and scored his maiden international goal against Brazil in August. "

So far this season, Gotze has scored five goals and provided five assists in 13 league appearances, placing him second behind Borussia Mönchenchen Royce in the Kicker's player ratings. "

That's what Torino Sport newspaper said about the prize favourite.

From these figures, it is not difficult to see how outstanding Gotze's performance in 2011 was.

But, alas, he met a better opponent.

In May 2011, Zhang Liang made his debut as Manchester United's third goalkeeper, coming on in a penalty shoot-out in the Champions League final. In the penalty shootout, Zhang saved five penalties from Barcelona and snatched the Champions League title from Barcelona. He then quickly conquered all Manchester United fans and became the new patron saint of the Premier League side. "

After nearly half a stellar season, Zhang Liang has won two trophies for Manchester United and is currently leading the Premier League with all wins. "

As two of the best players of the year, Gotze and Zhang Liang will inevitably be compared by the media, and Torino Sport will be no exception.

'We think Dortmund would still be very strong without Götze. Without Zhang Liang, Manchester United would not have been so brilliant this season, especially on the fourth front!"

Therefore, evaluating the performance of the season, Zhang Liang is stronger than Gotze in terms of personal performance and decisiveness. "

"This season, Gotze has been playing consistently and well. However, his opponent can no longer be described as outstanding, or we should call Zhang Liang a 'miracle'!"

"Of the valid votes we received, more than 20 media outlets voted for the young Celestial Empire. "

In the eyes of these authoritative media, he is the first person who deserves to be the golden boy of the year. "

"Let's congratulate this genius Celestial Empire goalkeeper, Zhang Liang!"

"That's right, he's the winner of the 2011 European Golden Boy Award!"

In 2011, the final winner of the European Golden Boy Award is, Zhang Liang, the god of the Heavenly Empire!

The dust has finally settled!

The title of the first person born in the 90s finally belongs to Zhang Liang!

This young man, with his unremitting efforts and his outstanding performance, conquered the discerning Westerners.

It has also conquered every fan and become a well-deserved winner!

Since its inception in 2003, the European Golden Boy Award has a history of 9 years.

In the past 9 years, a total of 9 leaders of the new generation of football have been born.

From the first edition, the young talents who received this honor were Van der Vaart (Netherlands), Wayne Rooney (England), Lionel Messi (Argentina), Cesc Fabregas (Spain), Sergio Aguero (Argentina), Anderson (Brazil), Pato (Brazil) and Balotelli (Italy).

All of these young talents were chosen for the moment, and now they are either famous all over the world.

Either playing for a big club, they are all well-known stars in world football.

Now, among these people, there is another goalkeeper from the Celestial Empire, and that is the great Zhang Liang!

At the same time as being elected to the European Golden Boy Award, Zhang Liang gained the capital to be on a par with those great stars.

His future will be limitless!

Moreover, Zhang Liang's election has also created a series of history!

He was the first Celestial Empire to be elected to the European Golden Boy Award, breaking the monopoly of European and American players on this award.

At the same time, he is also proving that Celestial Empire players can also play well, and football is not a game in Europe and the United States.

Moreover, Zhang Liang is the first goalkeeper to win the Golden Boy Award.

Russia's "New Yashin" Akinfeev and Spain's "Van der Sa" De Gea have both come close to this award.

However, in the end they all failed.

Akinfeev lost to Sergio Aguero, while De Gea lost to Balotelli.

On their way to making history, they all lost to the strikers.

However, Zhang Liang successfully defeated opponents both as a striker and a midfielder as a goalkeeper.

It's not that the opponent in the competition is too weak, but because Zhang Liang's own strength is too strong.

Even football superstars Drogba, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, Van Persie and others fell under Zhang Liang's hands.

In terms of performance, Gotze, who helped Dortmund win the championship, was no worse than Aguero and Balotley, who ran for the Golden Boy award that year.

If Gotze and Zhang Liang were not in the same class, maybe he would have taken away the European Golden Boy Award logically.

The blame can only be blamed on Gotze's bad luck, and the opponents he met cannot be compared with the winners of the previous Golden Boy Awards.

Therefore, Götze can only bow his head and admit defeat, this is fate.

The failure of Gotze is Zhang Liang's creation of history.

If a goalkeeper wins the European Golden Boy Award, whether there will be the same thing in the future, no one can say.

However, Zhang Liang has helped all the goalkeepers to achieve this dream.

The European Golden Boy Award is no longer a forbidden area for goalkeepers.

He is the first goalkeeper to win the European Golden Boy Award!

In addition to this, Zhang Liang also set a record.

And that's it: he's the youngest of all the players who have ever won the European Golden Boy Award!

Before him, the youngest player to win the European Golden Boy Award was Argentine genius Leo Messi.

In 2005, when Messi won the European Golden Boy Award, he was only 18 years old.

To be exact, 18 years and 5 months old.

Zhang Liang's age of winning the award is the same as Messi's, both are 18 years old.

However, Zhang Liang just celebrated his 18th birthday on November 20.

Now, less than a month has passed since his birthday.

In other words, Zhang Liang has set a new record for the youngest age of the Golden Boy Award!

From the moment he won the award, Zhang Liang was already the youngest player to win the European Golden Boy Award!

It is worth noting that among the previous award-winning players, the highest achievement is the youngest award-winning player of the "predecessor", Messi.

Today's Messi is the champion of La Liga, the champion of the European Champions Cup, and the top scorer.

Such enviable trophies, rumored to be incapable of being fitted in Messi's room, had to build a private honor exhibition room to hold these honorary trophies.

Such an honor may only be qualified by Ronaldo in the back.

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