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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: Elano on December 01, 2009, 02:07:46 AM
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Barcelona and Argentina striker Lionel Messi has been named European Footballer of the Year to win the prestigious Ballon d'Or award.
French magazine France Football said that Messi beat last year's winner Cristiano Ronaldo into second place by a massive margin - 473 points to 233.
Messi, 22, won the treble of Champions League, the Spanish championship and Spanish cup with Barcelona last season.
He also top-scored in the Champions League with nine goals.
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Why are you copying that dude's picture?
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Why are you copying that dude's picture?
this thread is about MESSI ::)
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Messi deserved it
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i think he will be a winner even for the next years to come
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i think he will be a winner even for the next years to come
At least a hot contender fo sho
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i think he will be a winner even for the next years to come
At least a hot contender fo sho
if george weah has won 2 ballon d'or in a row,messi can win this 'award' for the next 10 years
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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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what a joke
this guy hasn't scored in like 10 games for Argentina
this midget fuck sure does know how to publicize himself
tell everyone he's the new Maradona
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get Maradona's to publicly kiss his ass
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get some ex-great footballers to say he's the best footballer on the planet, then fans he is think he is becos a so called a pundit or expert whose never made a career of himself as a manager said it.
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^ LOL anyway...
Dude deserved it, how u can say this guy isn't the best player in europe let alone the world is beyond me, the guys simply amazing and as far as his form for Argentina goes, they're shite because they have a shite manager and everyone expects Messi to do everything when one player doesn't make a team
*also lmao at him winning it by a record margin, Ronaldo must be :rant:
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what a joke
this guy hasn't scored in like 10 games for Argentina
this midget fuck sure does know how to publicize himself
tell everyone he's the new Maradona
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get Maradona's to publicly kiss his ass
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get some ex-great footballers to say he's the best footballer on the planet, then fans he is think he is becos a so called a pundit or expert whose never made a career of himself as a manager said it.
you know nothing about football :laugh:
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how u can say this guy isn't the best player in europe let alone the world is beyond me
probably he's fav.sport is baseball,or the baloncesto :D
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Blah blah blah
you know nothing about football :laugh:
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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Blah blah blah
you know nothing about football :laugh:
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:
and i don't see where's the problem if he's small,honestly ::)
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I haven't seen messi enough tbh. In the games I've seen him he's been extremely quiet but then again that was against the best teams. Maybe against the shit that fills up La Liga he's running rings around them...
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I haven't seen messi enough tbh. In the games I've seen him he's been extremely quiet but then again that was against the best teams.
are you fuckin kidding me ? :D
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I haven't seen messi enough tbh. In the games I've seen him he's been extremely quiet but then again that was against the best teams.
are you fuckin kidding me ? :D
nope. As i stated the games I'VE seen him in were against the big teams and he looked average. Iniesta shitted all over him in those games.
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I haven't seen messi enough tbh. In the games I've seen him he's been extremely quiet but then again that was against the best teams.
are you fuckin kidding me ? :D
nope. As i stated the games I'VE seen him in were against the big teams and he looked average. Iniesta shitted all over him in those games.
ok ::)
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Why are you copying that dude's picture?
this thread is about MESSI ::)
And I asked you a QUESTION.
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Why are you copying that dude's picture?
this thread is about MESSI ::)
And I asked you a QUESTION.
:sign_offtopic:
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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
Im sure Tim Cahill won this a few seasons ago.
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Blah blah blah
you know nothing about football :laugh:
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:
true.
But when he plays for Argentinia, he usually disappoints. Still, he deserved the title this year.
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Blah blah blah
you know nothing about football :laugh:
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:
true.
But when he plays for Argentinia, he usually disappoints.
argentina is a shitty team,and alone he can't save the whole team
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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....
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Why are you copying that dude's picture?
this thread is about MESSI ::)
And I asked you a QUESTION.
:sign_offtopic:
As much as you want me to send you private messages I'm not gonna.
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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....
I think Messi, Xavi and Iniesta all deserved the trophy, Messi has the advantage that he plays a bit more spectacular than Xavi. But it's incredible how they can protect the ball. Even if they get attacked by 3 players, they'll still keep the ball, especially Iniesta and Messi.
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Why are you copying that dude's picture?
this thread is about MESSI ::)
And I asked you a QUESTION.
:sign_offtopic:
As much as you want me to send you private messages I'm not gonna.
i don't want nothing from you .
and you are :sign_offtopic: again
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Why are you copying that dude's picture?
this thread is about MESSI ::)
And I asked you a QUESTION.
:sign_offtopic:
As much as you want me to send you private messages I'm not gonna.
i don't want nothing from you .
and you are :sign_offtopic: again
You are making a cunt of this, coulda just answered the question like a normal little girl.
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Why are you copying that dude's picture?
this thread is about MESSI ::)
And I asked you a QUESTION.
:sign_offtopic:
As much as you want me to send you private messages I'm not gonna.
i don't want nothing from you .
and you are :sign_offtopic: again
You are making a cunt of this, coulda just answered the question like a normal little girl.
actually YOU are making a cunt of this,about something that is not even more on my avatar.
are you able to use the search function ? no,i guess ::)
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Why are you copying that dude's picture?
this thread is about MESSI ::)
And I asked you a QUESTION.
:sign_offtopic:
As much as you want me to send you private messages I'm not gonna.
i don't want nothing from you .
and you are :sign_offtopic: again
You are making a cunt of this, coulda just answered the question like a normal little girl.
actually YOU are making a cunt of this,about something that is not even more on my avatar.
are you able to use the search function ? no,i guess ::)
It was when I asked originally.
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Why are you copying that dude's picture?
this thread is about MESSI ::)
And I asked you a QUESTION.
:sign_offtopic:
As much as you want me to send you private messages I'm not gonna.
i don't want nothing from you .
and you are :sign_offtopic: again
You are making a cunt of this, coulda just answered the question like a normal little girl.
actually YOU are making a cunt of this,about something that is not even more on my avatar.
are you able to use the search function ? no,i guess ::)
It was when I asked originally.
please go on with another off topic post,you are very intelligent
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Why are you copying that dude's picture?
this thread is about MESSI ::)
And I asked you a QUESTION.
:sign_offtopic:
As much as you want me to send you private messages I'm not gonna.
i don't want nothing from you .
and you are :sign_offtopic: again
You are making a cunt of this, coulda just answered the question like a normal little girl.
actually YOU are making a cunt of this,about something that is not even more on my avatar.
are you able to use the search function ? no,i guess ::)
It was when I asked originally.
please go on with another off topic post,you are very intelligent
Right so why you were copying dude's picture? Hopefully you haven't got your mind set on this being a 10-pager.