I Am Really the Savior of the Red Devils

The Laureus World Sports Awards are referred to as the Laureus Awards. Founded in 2000 by two major companies, Daimler and Richemont, and supported by global partners Mercedes-Benz and IWC, it is one of the most influential sports awards in the world and a global sports awards ceremony.

Lawrence means laurels in Latin, a symbol of victory.

The annual Lawrence Awards reward the world's most outstanding male and female athletes. The selection method is that more than 2,000 senior sports journalists from more than 70 countries and regions nominate the most outstanding athletes of the year, and then 52 members of the Lawrence Sports Academy Voted to select the winners, the Sports Academy is composed of the most outstanding retired athletes in each field, each member has a glorious history.

United and United have fond memories at the Laureus World Sports Awards.

In 2000, at the award ceremony of the first Lawrence World Sports Awards, Manchester United, which won the Triple Crown in 1999, successfully won the best team award of the year.

At the awarding ceremony of the 13th Lawrence World Sports Awards in 5 years, Sir Bobby Charlton, the legendary star of Manchester United and one of the "Three Saints of Manchester United", won the Lawrence Lifetime Achievement Award.

In addition, at the 10th Laureus World Sports Awards ceremony in 2009, Manchester United, which returned to the top of Europe, also competed with the Chinese delegation for the Beijing Olympics and other teams for the best team award, but lost in the end.

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Although last year was also an Olympic year, and there was also the impact of the European Cup, but Manchester United's performance in 2016 was too dazzling, so the call for winning the championship is extremely high.

However, they also have to face Brazil's Olympic Men's Soccer Team (Olympic Soccer Champion), Cleveland Cavaliers (NBA Finals Champion), Chicago Cubs (MLB Champion), Mercedes-AMG Petronas (F1 Champion) Compete with many strong rivals such as the Portuguese men's football team.

In general, compared with competitors, Manchester United's advantages are quite obvious. But as long as nothing is settled, anything is possible.

In the 11th Lawrence World Sports Awards in 2010, Barcelona, ​​which won the six crowns last year, regrettably lost, and a year later, Inter Milan, which won the triple crown, also lost to the World Cup champion Spain.

Of course, the saddest thing is Barcelona. The Cosmos won the Triple Crown twice, only to fail to win. In the 2016 Lawrence World Sports Awards, they lost to the New Zealand All Blacks who were engaged in rugby.

Surprisingly,

Barcelona won the Laureus World Sports Award in 2012, which was the only year in which the Cosmos won the Champions League three times and did not win the treble.

Compared with the competition for the best team award, the competition for Rooney's selection of the best male athlete is undoubtedly more intense. In addition to Wayne Rooney, nominees for this award include Jamaican flying man Bolt, Olympic 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter double champion Farah, tennis star Murray, and NBA Warriors Curry and Cavaliers James are also shortlisted.

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In Monaco, Ye Su got a superstar fan, Bolt, a world-renowned die-hard Manchester United fan, wanted to take Ye Su to take a photo with him, asked Ye Su to sign for him, and asked Ye Su if he could Going to the Manchester United team for trial training made Ye Su dumbfounded.

Ye Su hesitated for a moment, and then gave Bolt an answer that made him ecstatic: Manchester United will arrange a special trial for him!

Ye Su's idea is very simple. Since Bolt, the king of track and field, is chasing after him, why don't Manchester United take this opportunity to hype up and use the influence of this super popular star?

Bolt is also well aware that Ye Su's so-called arranging a special trial training for him is just a show, a use of him. But he is very happy with this kind of thing. Anyway, he has already planned to retire this year. It is also a fun thing to play double reed with Manchester United.

Therefore, under such a situation where the concubine is interested, a special football "trial training" has been set up, but the time has not yet been determined.

When the awards ceremony started, the result did not exceed Ye Su's expectations. In the selection of the most watched best male athlete, Rooney failed to create a miracle and became the first person to win the Lawrence World Sports Award for Best Male Athlete. The Jamaican Flyer defeated Rooney, Curry, James, Murray and other competitors to be elected. This is the fourth time that the Lightning has won the award.

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Bolt's election is actually well-deserved.

At the Rio Olympics, the 30-year-old Bolt won three gold medals in the men's 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay.

In 2016, although Rooney made great achievements at Manchester United and led the team to create a miracle of seven crowns, but because of his flawed performance in the European Cup, this was the key reason why he finally lost to the Jamaica Lightning at the Lawrence World Sports Awards .

Of course, some people say that this has something to do with the preference of the Lawrence World Sports Awards. Tennis and athletics have been favorites in the short 18-year history of the Laureus World Sports Awards.

The reason is that professionalism, voting member preference and sponsors are the three most discussed factors. Through data search and analysis, it can be seen that the founding company of the Lawrence Award is the parent company of Mercedes-Benz and Cartier. Mercedes-Benz competes in tennis, golf and rugby every year. With hundreds of millions of dollars spent on "elite events," the answer to why Lawrence prefers tennis is on the horizon.

First, high tennis, track and field, and F1 are the most professional and commercialized sports in the world, and do not require teamwork, which is consistent with the worship of individual heroes who fight alone in the individual awards of the Lawrence Sports Awards. Therefore, when Messi and Djokovic competed for the best male athlete in 2012, it was difficult for Messi to match 3 Grand Slam champions a year with 91 personal goals.

However, what is puzzling is that high-tennis track and field is not the only sport that needs to be fought alone. Swimming and other sports also have excellent personal results but cannot be favored by Lawrence.

Second, most of the members of the Lawrence Academy of Physical Education come from tennis and track and field backgrounds.

This statement can only be regarded as half correct. According to the list of members released by the official website of the Lawrence Sports Awards, there are 65 members in total. In the nomination of sports awards every year, more than 2,000 senior sports journalists from more than 70 countries and regions nominate the most outstanding athletes of the year, and then the members of Lawrence Academy will vote for the winners.

However, statistics show that these members have a variety of sports backgrounds and are not concentrated in the tennis field as many people have analyzed. It can be seen from the data that the members with football background are the most, with a total of 11 members, while there are more members with cricket and track and field backgrounds than tennis, and there are only 4 members with real tennis background.

The third is that the sponsors of the Lawrence Sports Awards are also sponsoring sports such as high nets and cycling, so they have an interest.

According to official information, the Laureus World Sports Awards was launched in 2000 by the founders and sponsors DaimlerChrysler and Richemont. DaimlerChrysler and Richemont's brands Mercedes-Benz and Cartier luxury brands are sponsors. Among them, Cartier mainly sponsors polo matches in sports, while Mercedes-Benz has been active in sports such as tennis, golf, F1 and rugby. It not only sponsors the top events of these sports, but also cooperates with many sports superstars, including Federer, Li Na and Hamilton et al.

From this perspective, the bias of the Lawrence Awards is much clearer. Several sports that the sponsors focus on are also popular for winning awards, and their influence is self-evident.

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In addition to the factors of professionalism, voting members and sponsors, some people think that the Lawrence Sports Awards prefer aristocratic "high-end sports".

Former famous tennis player Boris Becker said bluntly that elite sports is the pursuit of the Lawrence Awards, "Elite sports are highly competitive, and the outstanding athletes must be the most outstanding sports players in the world."

However, how to define aristocratization is a difficult problem, so the discussion will not be continued.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and artificial awards will inevitably have artificial preferences. Even if it is a world-class sports award, there will also be preferences.

It can be seen in the history of the most important awards for the best male athlete and the best female athlete. In the 18 sessions, 8 times the best male athlete was a tennis player, 4 times were track and field, 3 times were equation 1, and 2 times were golf; and Among the best female athletes, 8 times in track and field and 5 times in tennis. Tennis players have also won the Best Comeback Award 7 times, and the Best Breakthrough Award has also been won by tennis players 4 times.

It can be seen that the preference of the Laureus Sports Awards is concentrated in sports such as tennis, golf, track and field and F1.

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Although Wayne Rooney, a football player, once again failed in the selection of the Lawrence Male Sportsman of the Year Award, but the Manchester United people had the last laugh in the selection of another award.

Relying on the impressive record of 56 victories in 66 games in 2016, the unprecedented miracle of seven crowns, and the super popularity and huge influence in the world, Manchester United almost won the 2017 Lawrence World Cup without any suspense. Best Team Award at the Sports Awards!

In fact, in the best team award this award, football is the object of preference. After all, as far as the current human sports are concerned, football is the sport that best embodies teamwork.

In the 18-year history of the Lawrence World Sports Awards, the football team has won 10 awards, far exceeding other team events.

These 10 awards are the first Manchester United (Triple Crown in 1999), the second French national team (2000 European Cup), the fourth Brazilian national team (2002 World Cup), the sixth Greece national team (2004 European Cup), eighth Italian national team (2006 World Cup), twelfth Spanish national team, thirteenth Barcelona (2011 double crown), fifteenth Bayern Munich (Triple Crown in 2013), German national team (2014 World Cup) in 16th and Manchester United in 18th this year.

Among them, Manchester United is the only team that has won twice!