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Three men “fight” today for the Golden Ball most talked about in recent years. Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta and Lionel Messi are looking forward to the large verdict.
Gone are other names like Wesley Sneijder Dutch, Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and the Uruguayan Diego Forlan.
Xavi, Iniesta and Messi, proud Catalans have reached the final. It will be interesting to see who is chosen.

I have no doubt that the three, the most destabilizing is Messi, but if just for that Christian could have slipped into the shortlist.

If it were the work of a year which was taken into account, the absence of Sneijder (especially in Europe champion and runner-up of the World) is inexplicable. The act of throwing a car almost just could not have been the determining factor, but Forlan (Atletico leading UEFA and Uruguay to fourth in the world) should have been alternated.

The criteria seem to be a mystery then. What is clear is that this must be the year of the Spanish. All we wanted to see in 2010 the world wide Messi and more that some media are bent on selling the contrary, the crack did not appear. Do not score a goal and did not come to the rescue of his team when he was beaten by Germany and even their achievements with the club (“just” a league) are much poorer than previous seasons.

Even Casillas is key to closing the prison at Cardozo in the second round and hand in hand to Robben in the final deserved a better fate.
But in the end it was tinged with FC Barcelona.

I think Xavi Iniesta had a better World. However, the manchego was decisive. His goal gave the title to Spain and that has to weigh.

In summary: For quality Messi, Xavi year, by a preponderance Iniesta and justice should be a draw.

Andres Iniesta goes into the history of Spanish football with the winning goal for the Red delirium led to millions of Spanish. A final three minutes of the mesh manchego topped a pass from Torres. To remove the shirt showed his greatness with a message in memory of Jarque.

Andres Iniesta knew what it was like a moment of glory. It happened at Stanford Bridge in 2008 when an own goal in stoppage of the game against Chelsea, got to Barca in the Champions League final later earned the Catalans.

But he did not expect the manchego is that history reserved for a new period epic. Three minutes from the end of an extension of the agony of Barca took a pass from Cesc, he controlled the ball with great tranquility and sent him with violence within the mesh, meaning the winning goal for the Red is worth a championship. And last but not least was named the MVP of the game as it could be otherwise.

But if anything characterizes the small Fuentealbilla player is his humility. After his goal and at a time when the pulse reaches its peak elastic Iniesta lifted a shirt showing a message that read in memory of the late Dani Jarque, who died last year from heart disease. “Dani Jarque always with us.” Read the rest of this entry »

After a World Cup final of so toxic a nature the stadium is in need of decontamination more than the regular clean-up. To Spain comes rightful glory as they took this prize for the first time. The side prevailed over a Holland team that was reduced to 10 men when the English referee, Howard Webb, eventually dismissed the defender John Heitinga, with a second caution in the 109th minute. Cesc Fábregas, on as a substitute, fed Andrés Iniesta to score the winner seven minutes later.

Holland were already being rebuked prior to the final but these events were on a wholly different scale and FIFA should take additional action considering the harm done to the culmination of a tournament that means so much around the globe. The losers were overwhelmingly the guiltier party, with seven bookings, not including Heitinga’s pair. Spain’s count climbed to five with late cautions for Xavi and Iniesta near the end. Read the rest of this entry »