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I’ve gone for:
Sneijder £20 @ 11/4
Muller £5 @ 40/1
Villa £10 @ 20/1Iniesta and Xavi too short for me, one will take the other’s votes!
Can’t see Messi winning again either.
Good luck mate , not betting but think Sneijder will win it he was super for Inter last season and super in World cup . Not one English man on the final list just show how ” good” our players are
It’s tough one to call.
Sneijder done the treble with Inter and got to the final of a world cup, scoring five goals along the way. He had a fantastic season, but was out of favour and unspectacular at Real Madrid the season before….
Xavi won the league with Barcelona and then won a world cup, and is widely recognised as the best central midfielder in the world (I beg to differ…*coughs Fabregas*). He has been pivotal to Barcelonas success recently and won the treble the season before.
So, Domestic treble and WC final Vs League title and WC Glory.
1st Xavi
2nd Sneijder
3rd VillaGood luck mate , not betting but think Sneijder will win it he was super for Inter last season and super in World cup . Not one English man on the final list just show how ” good” our players are
None of them deserve to either!
Good luck mate , not betting but think Sneijder will win it he was super for Inter last season and super in World cup . Not one English man on the final list just show how ” good” our players are
None of them deserve to either!
To be fair to our failures, if the team you represent for club and/or country wins nothing, then you’ve got very little to no chance whatsoever of taking the Ballon d’Or, regardless of how many goals you scored or how consistently brilliant you may have been over a period – not that a change in the way the winner is chosen would improve any englishmans chances!
If the award was given to the player who performed to the highest standard for the longest period, Messi would win it every year hands down.
Messi had another great year at club level, but looking back over previous winners of these things, in World Cup year, it tends to go to a World cup winner (OK Stoichkov in 94, and Belanov in 86 were exceptions, but this was back when they could only vote for Europeans)
Iniesta for me – think he had a better WC than Xavi, and he got the all important goal.
If the award was given to the player who performed to the highest standard for the longest period, Messi would win it every year hands down.
And so it proved.
Messi wins the 55th Ballon d’Or, regardless of Xavi and Iniestas world cup glory, and Sneijders treble season with Milan, topped off with a 5 goals en route to a WC final.
The best player in the world and most consistently brilliant performer is crowned the world player of the year! Who’d have thought it?!!!
What a surprise !
As I have said many times; never overlook the obvious.
I have had the privilege of seeing the little genius playing in the Champions League against Celtic. Lionel Messi is simply different class. His close ball control is up there with Maradona – and (imo) arguably better, certainly in tight situations. What’s more, you will never see him cheating and he never feigns injury. He just gets up and gets on with it.
A deserved winner.
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