The best coach is outrageous for Klopp? The FIFA annual awards cause controversy, the reason is actually in the rules

In the early morning of December 18, Beijing time, the FIFA annual awards came to an end, Lewandowski and won the World Footballer without any suspense. However, there are still a lot of controversies in the selection of other awards, such as the selection of the best coach and the best goalkeeper. Frick, who led Bayern and to win the triple crown, lost to Klopp, who was second, but Neuer, the goalkeeper of the year, missed the best team and his position was replaced by Alisson. This makes many fans feel dissatisfied, in fact, this is not the first time in history, but there are traces to follow. The specific reasons for this are also worthy of our research and discussion. Z5z

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​​led his team to win the Triple Crown. Frick lost to Klopp and missed the coach of the year. Bayern's meritorious goalkeeper, captain Neuer lost to Liverpool's main goalkeeper Alisson, did not enter the best team, which is unreasonable to many people, especially Bayern fans. For a time, conspiracy theories began to raging again, and many Bayern fans felt that their team was "targeted". In fact, this similar situation is not the first in history. After the 2016 Golden Globes and World Footballer separated, a similar situation occurred in the FIFA annual awards ceremony.

​​2016 was the first time that FIFA awarded the best coach of the year award. It was Italian coach Ranieri who won the best coach that year. With his miraculously won the Premier League title with Leicester City, he defeated Real Madrid that year. Zidane, who won the Champions League, and Santos, who led Portugal to European Cup and . This also caused discussion at the time. However, judging from the logic of this award, people may be interested in a historical positioning and hot spot in the selection of this award, not like the Golden Globe or the World Footballer. Fancy the weight of the award, otherwise a Premier League champion will not be worth the Champions League and European Cup anyway.

​​In terms of goalkeepers, in 2018, Z1z Courtois represented the Belgian team in the World Cup and reached the top four, not only won the gold glove award, but also won the best goalkeeper of the year award. However, in the team of the year, the best goalkeeper was de Gea from the Premier League Manchester United. Although he did not perform well on behalf of Spain in the World Cup that year, he was even criticized as the "shot on goal" and " Butterman" was still selected successfully, which also caused a lot of controversy. But it is undeniable that in the 2017-2018 Premier League season, De Gea performed very well. He also won the Premier League's best goalkeeper of the season and was selected as the PFA best team.

​​Therefore, this time Frick lost to Klopp and Neuer was replaced by Alisson. It was not the first time, but a precedent in the past. But why does this seemingly "contradictory" phenomenon occur? This depends on the voting mechanism of the selection and the influence of the event. The voting mechanism of

is the main cause of

. The first thing we have to think of is the voting mechanism. This is like 2010, the first selection of the Golden Globe and World Footballer merger. Barcelona's performance that year was average, Inter Milan won the triple crown, but in the end the FIFA Golden Globe Award was awarded to Messi , not Sneijder. After analysis of

, an important reason is the change in voting mechanism. The Golden Globe Award is mainly voted by the media, and the football player is voted by the national team coach and captain. After the merger, the voting results of the three parties will be combined to award the award. In other words, if the two awards were not merged that year, Sneijder is very May get one of the awards.

​​Let’s look at the current FIFA annual awards. In terms of coach of the year,

, like the World Footballer, is voted by national team coaches and captains, and joins media voting and online voting. Each part accounts for 1/4, which makes the variables very large. According to public data, Klopp received 686 points from coach votes, 666 points from captain votes, 578 points from media votes, 410190 points from fans, and 24 points overall; Frick received 572 points from coach votes and 583 points from captain votes. The media voted 782 points, the fans voted 468,611 points, and the overall score was 24 points.

​​According to the voting rules, there are a total of 5 candidates for coaches. Rule 10 stipulates that coaches, captains, media, and fans participating in the voting must give their 3 candidates and arrange them. The first person gets 5 points, the second person gets 3 points, the third person gets 1 point, and the remaining 2 people get no points. Based on this, calculate the total score of each candidate in each voting group and rank again. After that, according to the rule of Article 11, if a candidate is ranked first in a group, he will get 7 points, second place 5 points, third place 3 points, and 4th place 2 Points, 1 point for the 5th place, and finally the total points. This is why Klopp, Frick and Bielsa each scored 24 points, 24 points and 11 points. Because Klopp and Frick had the same points, according to Article 12, because the national team coaches who voted for Klopp had more points, Uncle Zha was elected the best coach of the year.

​​The voting rules for the best goalkeeper are similar, except that Article 11 stipulates that the scores for the best player and the best goalkeeper are 13 points for the first place, 11 points for the second place, 9 points for the third place, 8 points for the fourth place, 8 points for the fourth place. 5 places with 7 points...and so on. The main reason for the difference here is that there are 11 candidates for the best player and 5 for the best coach. Although the best goalkeeper candidate is also 5 people, the scoring system is the same as the best player.

​​The team of the year is jointly organized by FIFA (FIFA) and the International Federation of Professional Footballers (FIFAPro). The voting rule is that each judge chooses his own goalkeeper and defender from 55 candidates. , Midfielder, and striker each have 3 people. After comprehensive statistics, the goalkeeper with the most votes, 3 defenders, 3 midfielders and 3 forwards are selected. In addition, the judges also need to select another non-goalkeeper in their minds to form the best team. The judges are all from the FIFAPro selection committee.

​​Through the analysis of the above voting rules, I believe you should have a more detailed understanding of why there are some "contradictions" and "discretions" in the selection of some individual awards. The main factor is the scoring mechanism and the reason for the composition of the judges. The author needs to emphasize here that the selection rules will be different each year. For example, in 2016, the so-called voter turnout was used to determine the electorate, while in 2020, the score is calculated. But we can see from it that the Premier League, as a country’s top league, obviously has a great influence, surpassing Serie A, La Liga, and Bundesliga. After all, the importance of leading the team to win the commemorative Premier League trophy is in many judges’ opinions. He has already surpassed the Champions League and the Intercontinental Games.

​​link: related voting rules

FIFA FIFPRO Men's World11: https://resources.fifa.com/image/upload/the-fifa-fifpro-men-s-world-11-rules-of-allocation.pdf?cloudid=b5zzacyx2anm6lmtqvi4ot

​​Text/Supine Support-Zhang Yangyuan