FIFA Ballon d'Or Gala 2010

Post #1 » by **BlackMamba** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 6:49 pm

http://www.fifa.com/ballondor/index.html

Messi, Xavi or Iniesta.

I think Xavi should be the winner, but maybe because of his goal in the Final Iniesta could win it.

Lionel Messi · Post #2 » by **Lionel Messi** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 7:02 pm

Messi wins!!

I was watching it live and I was so excited and surprised to hear his name. Time to make it 3 in a row now

I really thought Xavi would win it.

Post #3 » by **BlackMamba** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 7:08 pm

LOL! Messi? Sure, he's the best of the 3, but he didn't deserve it, not this year.

Lionel Messi · Post #4 » by **Lionel Messi** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 7:15 pm

BlackMamba wrote:LOL! Messi? Sure, he's the best of the 3, but he didn't deserve it, not this year.

You can't say he "didn't deserve" it, but you can say that you thought Xavi deserved it more.

Messi had an amazing season.

Post #5 » by **magik9113** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 7:45 pm

i think the other two deserved it more, but I'd still have prefered Sneijder..... at least to be one of the 3 :dontknow:

Lionel Messi · Post #6 » by **Lionel Messi** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 7:48 pm

magik9113 wrote:i think the other two deserved it more, but I'd still have prefered Sneijder..... at least to be one of the 3

I think Sneijder should have been there instead of Iniesta.

Iniesta actually came in second with like 17%, Xavi had 16%.

Post #7 » by **Slava** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 7:56 pm

Barca only won the La Liga and a Spanish cup last season didn't they. I thought the competition might have been between Xavi and Iniesta but considering Messi had a phenomenal season I didn't expect him to be the run away winner like this.

Lionel Messi · Post #8 » by **Lionel Messi** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:00 pm

SlavaMedvedenko wrote:Barca only won the La Liga and a Spanish cup last season didn't they. I thought the competition might have been between Xavi and Iniesta but considering Messi had a phenomenal season I didn't expect him to be the run away winner like this.

He had like 22-23% of the votes.

Post #9 » by **Slava** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:07 pm

So they chose 3 finalists and the total voting was Xavi - 17% Iniesta - 16% and Messi 22% ? That doesn't add up unless they also voted for other candidates.

Lionel Messi · Post #10 » by **Lionel Messi** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:31 pm

SlavaMedvedenko wrote:So they chose 3 finalists and the total voting was Xavi - 17% Iniesta - 16% and Messi 22% ? That doesn't add up unless they also voted for other candidates.

Ya I was all excited thinking Messi got 65% but then i saw this http://www.fifa.com/ballondor/media/new ... index.html

Messi had an outstanding 2010, winning the Spanish league with his club Barcelona. Messi obtained 22.65% of the votes, ahead of his club team-mates Andrés Iniesta (17.36%) and Xavi (16.48%).

Post #11 » by **5DOM** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:01 pm

Messi was clearly the best player in the world last year, but if the purpose was to recognize the player's accomplishments the past year, Xavi, Iniesta or Sneijder should have won. If this was only about determining who the best players are, Rooney deserved the XI spot over Villa

IronChef · Post #12 » by **IronChef** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:17 pm

Sneijder should have won, imo.

Post #13 » by **Slava** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:53 pm

http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/classic ... finalx.pdf

That's a list of who voted for whom.

Lionel Messi · Post #14 » by **Lionel Messi** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:21 pm

SlavaMedvedenko wrote:http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/classic/awards/01/36/25/40/ballondor_award_men_player_finalx.pdf

That's a list of who voted for whom.

Oh wow, sweet.
Interesting to see Mark Van Bommel's votes for 1st and 2nd place were "invalid".

You can see some obvious bias sometimes like Vermaelen voting for Fabregas or Benayoun voting for Drogba.

Post #15 » by **BlackMamba** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 11:08 pm

LOL! Mexico's captain and coach voted for Xabi Alonso. I'm pretty sure that they were confused and wanted to vote for Xavi.

Post #16 » by **5DOM** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 11:28 pm

Looks like Sneijder got most points from the media?
Funny who Ronaldo didn't vote for

DorsiaRes · Post #17 » by **DorsiaRes** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 1:30 am

LOL @ Casillas voting for Former teammates and Ronaldo. Attaboy..

All these representatives from obscure countries voting for Messi really shows how much of a popularity all of this really is. I also think xavi got snubbed.

Batu7 · Post #18 » by **Batu7** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:08 am

I also believe that Sneijder deserved this award, last year was his year.

If anyone should have taken it from Barcelona, it shouldn't have been Messi. While I believe he was the best in the world, the other two won a World Cup.

Boognish · Post #19 » by **Boognish** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:23 am

Batu7 wrote:I also believe that Sneijder deserved this award, last year was his year.

If anyone should have taken it from Barcelona, it shouldn't have been Messi. While I believe he was the best in the world, the other two won a World Cup.

And 1

Iniesta was hurt half the year, so it should have been between Xavi and Sneijder

Post #20 » by **magik9113** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:48 am

DorsiaRes wrote:LOL @ Casillas voting for Former teammates and Ronaldo. Attaboy..

he owed it to Robben after embarrassing him twice in the wc finals

There seems to be no defenders anywhere other than the occasional Puyol and Maicon