Not Yet the Time!

Madrid, Spain.

The first thing Florentino did after getting up was head straight to the living room in his pajamas and flip through the fresh morning newspapers.

From AS to Marca to El País, and even Catalonia's Mundo Deportivo and Sport, nearly every newspaper in Spain, large or small, had the same focus that morning: the European Golden Ball Award.

Yang Yang defeating Cristiano Ronaldo had not originally come as a surprise. However, yesterday's news from Manchester, England, that France Football Magazine editor-in-chief Denis Chaumier had arrived in Manchester had led everyone to think of the Portuguese player. As a result, the freshly announced outcome that day shocked the entire world.

It had been a coincidence, but the effect was astonishingly good.

Almost every newspaper gave Yang Yang's successful defense of the European Golden Ball Award extremely high praise. They all felt Yang Yang deserved the honor because he had not only been the best-performing superstar in European football the previous season, but was also the most dangerous attacking killer in European football so far this season.

To quote Ibrahimovic, if Yang Yang did not win the award, the Swede would be the first to object!

If even the arrogant Swedish Striker was convinced, who else would dare disagree?

Newspapers everywhere reported the news from France Football Magazine's official website, lavishing praise on Yang Yang and heaping on the compliments. The gist was that he had become the second legend after Van Basten to successfully defend the award, and so on.

In any case, after Yang Yang won the award this time, he would hear so many words of praise that his ears would practically grow calluses.

What really caught Florentino's attention, however, was a report from German Image Report: Yang Yang had been unanimously selected both times.

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