Dongqiudi pinned: The 2021 Ballon d'Or ceremony is underway. Jude Bellingham has won the Kopa Trophy.
Clap clap clap!
The venue erupted in applause for Jude Bellingham.
Looking at all the young players this year, excluding Tang Ye and the others who had already won awards, Jude Bellingham was clearly the most suitable recipient of the Kopa Trophy.
Everyone said Barcelona's Pedri was incredible.
But you had to remember that Jude Bellingham was a Champions League winner!
With that buff over his head, even if Pedri got ten more assists, he still wouldn't be able to withstand the pressure!
At the center of the stage, Jude Bellingham held up his Kopa Trophy as camera flashes burst from the front.
The Kopa Trophy might not have been as important as the Ballon d'Or, but since its establishment in 2017, most of its winners had gone on to achieve great things. Reporters and fans therefore called it "a more authoritative certification of genius than the Golden Boy."
For example.
The inaugural Kopa Trophy winner—GGBond!
Just two years after winning the Kopa Trophy, Tang Ye received his first Ballon d'Or!
"Thank you!"
"Thank you all very much!"
Jude Bellingham bent at the waist in acknowledgment, making eye contact with Erling Haaland and Paul Pogba in the stands, and of course Tang Ye.
"I'm deeply grateful for the support of my teammates, because I know that my individual abilities are limited. Without my teammates' support, I probably would have struggled to reach this point—at the very least, I wouldn't have gotten here this quickly, not this year."
Jude Bellingham began reciting the speech he had prepared long ago.
"Although some teammates who helped me are no longer at Borussia Dortmund..."
The moment he said that, the director immediately cut to Tang Ye in the