
02年获得德国最佳球员奖 巴拉克的第三个最佳在05年获得
荣誉
When Michael Ballack was defeated in two finals with Bayer Leverkusen in 2002 and lost the league championship down the stretch, the familiar quotation of the team gripped by fear of winning made the rounds. Many observers had obviously failed to notice that Ballack did already have a big title to his name at that point - and that he had won it at the tender age of 21. After all, he had been in the starting XI on May 2, 1998, when Kaiserslautern beat Wolfsburg 4-0 to become Bundesliga champions. Granted, this game was the only one of the season in which Ballack played the whole 90 minutes, but he notched up 16 appearances and had every right to call himself league champion.
And even the season 2001-02 brought a few titles for him individually. For one, there was the honour of being named Germany's Footballer of the Year, which was something special precisely because he couldn't point to a club title, usually a prerequisite for winning such an award. What caused even more attention, at least among experts, was Ballack's being named Europe's best midfield player by UEFA. Again, he won this honour even though his side had lost the Champions League final - to a team that boasted a famous colleague such as Zinedine Zidane, who still failed to lift the award.
But Ballack wouldn't be a true footballer if he hadn't preferred winning championships and Cups with his team to always being honoured individually. Well, he more than made up for this during the next seasons. But apart from league titles and Cup triumphs with Bayern, he also celebrated his second and third Footballer of the Year award, thus entering a truly illustrious circle: not even big-name players like Lothar Matthaeus, Matthias Sammer, Juergen Klinsmann, Guenter Netzer or Gerd Mueller have won this title in Germany more than twice! Only two real legends are up there with Ballack - Uwe Seeler and Sepp Maier. And only one player has been named Footballer of the Year four times, Franz Beckenbauer. But Ballack still has a few years of football ahead of him ...
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本帖最后由 只爱巴拉克 于 2007-5-17 12:43 编辑 ]