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Messi wins Europe's Ballon d'or award
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--- Quote from: Elano on December 01, 2009, 11:51:10 PM ---Lionel Messi has become the first Argentinian to win the Ballon d'Or, the FC Barcelona forward claiming the prize awarded by France Football magazine for the European Player of the Year.
Brilliant campaign
The 22-year-old eclipsed runner-up and last year's winner Cristiano Ronaldo by a record 240-point margin. Messi earned 473 points out of a possible 480, a near unanimous verdict, in the poll of 96 journalists worldwide. The award caps a brilliant year for a player who helped Barcelona to UEFA Champions League glory - he scored nine goals in last season's campaign including the second in the final victory against Manchester United FC - as well as to a Spanish league and cup double.
'Fantastic'
"It's a great honour to have won this award and the fact that I'm the first Argentinian is very exciting," said Messi, the prize having been opened up to non-Europeans in 1995. "The Ballon d'Or is very important for me. Every single player who has won it has been a fantastic player. I dedicate it to my family who are always by my side when needed. It won't be easy to enjoy another year like 2009 and claim this award again."
Top ten
Messi's club-mates Xavi Hernández and Andrés Iniesta also feature in the top five alongside former Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o, the scorer of the opening goal in the defeat of United in Rome in what was his last game for the Catalans before joining FC Internazionale Milano. The 2007 winner Kaká (AC Milan and Real Madrid CF) finished sixth, with Zlatan Ibrahimović (Inter and Barcelona), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Didier Drogba (Chelsea FC) and Steven Gerrard (Liverpool FC) completing the top ten.
Past ten Ballon d'Or winners
2008 Cristiano Ronaldo
2007 Kaká
2006 Fabio Cannavaro
2005 Ronaldinho
2004 Andriy Shevchenko
2003 Pavel Nedvěd
2002 Ronaldo
2001 Michael Owen
2000 Luís Figo
1999 Rivaldo
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Im sure Tim Cahill won this a few seasons ago.
Furor Teutonicus:
--- Quote from: Jome on December 02, 2009, 05:20:45 AM ---
--- Quote from: Elano on December 02, 2009, 05:17:35 AM ---
--- Quote from: Momo on December 02, 2009, 02:55:27 AM ---Blah blah blah
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you know nothing about football :laugh:
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He obviously haven't seen Messi in any action, at least not many times.
Messi is in a different league in nearly any game he plays.. the opposing team usually get 2-4 yellow cards from fouling Messi alone. :laugh:
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true.
But when he plays for Argentinia, he usually disappoints. Still, he deserved the title this year.
Elano:
--- Quote from: not decided yet on December 03, 2009, 07:39:03 AM ---
--- Quote from: Jome on December 02, 2009, 05:20:45 AM ---
--- Quote from: Elano on December 02, 2009, 05:17:35 AM ---
--- Quote from: Momo on December 02, 2009, 02:55:27 AM ---Blah blah blah
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you know nothing about football :laugh:
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He obviously haven't seen Messi in any action, at least not many times.
Messi is in a different league in nearly any game he plays.. the opposing team usually get 2-4 yellow cards from fouling Messi alone. :laugh:
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true.
But when he plays for Argentinia, he usually disappoints.
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argentina is a shitty team,and alone he can't save the whole team
BakinSodaFree:
Fuck this, MEssi could have waited a year mayby. They should have given it to XAVI. Barcelona won everything, and even if MEssi is a extremly great player, they could have won it whitout him. No chance they would have won anything whitout XAVI. He is the player that alawos Barcelona to play the type of football they play. He is the guy who holds the team togheter. Who speed the tempo up when the need to, who slow it down when they need to. Even if some of Messi`s goals where incredible Xavi way of playing football has no match in the world. The passes, the tutch. He got everything. The most important player for the best team last year.
I guess they are almoust forced to give it to Messi due to his goals and dribbles but if you see Barcelona plays you notice how important Xavi is. Just the four assist in the humiliation of Real Madrid last season should be worth the price alone. Xavi is a football god.
Only bad thing about him is he plays for the wrong club. He should have played for United....
Mac 10 †:
--- Quote from: Elano on December 03, 2009, 03:11:31 AM ---
--- Quote from: Mac 10 † on December 03, 2009, 02:10:34 AM ---
--- Quote from: Elano on December 01, 2009, 03:52:03 AM ---
--- Quote from: Mac 10 † on December 01, 2009, 02:36:15 AM ---Why are you copying that dude's picture?
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this thread is about MESSI ::)
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And I asked you a QUESTION.
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:sign_offtopic:
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As much as you want me to send you private messages I'm not gonna.
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