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Spain stepped up so not much to say. Germany was disappointing. I blame it on the lack of Müller. 😉 Definitely a new favourite.

Spain and Netherlands has both a lot of potential and can play some incredible football. But how much have we seen of that so far? As long as the team playing the best in the final win I won't complain.
 
I don't think the two finalists have got anyway near their best as of yet. They've struggled through and the Football they've played hasn't been that great. Hopefully we see an attractive final.
 
According to Paul the octopus, Spain and Germany should be the winners.... I'm afraid he might be right (again!) although I'd love to see the Netherlands win!!! Can't wait for Sunday!!!! GO THE NETHERLANDS!!!!!!
 
Anyone that followed Argentina that can confirm that Messi was so good that he deserves to be one of 10 candidates for player of the tournament?
 
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And in my dream......
I'll see if I can find a link in english. This link is in swedish but here's the player they say are up for the award.

David Villa (Spanien)

Andreas Iniesta (Spanien)

Xavi (Spanien)

Wesley Sneijder (Holland)

Arjen Robben (Holland)

Mesut à–zil (Tyskland)

Bastian Schweinsteiger (Tyskland)

Diego Forlan (Uruguay)

Asamoah Gyan (Ghana)

Lionel Messi (Agentina)

And since it's swedish the countries are obviously in swedish but I think you get it anyway. 😉 Messi nominerad till VM:s bàƒÂ¤ste spelare | VM 2010

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This is funny. All I can find is that it will be released later today. So eithe this source is just guessing or have good sources. The last seem unlikely since I can't find a list anywhere. But maybe I just don't know where to look. We can always compare it to the real list later on.

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Finally found it. FIFA.com - Golden Ball press conference à¢â‚¬" live streaming

I'm missing Müller but at least he got the chance to win best young player award. He's up against Giovani dos Santos and Andre Ayew. FIFA.com - Best Young Player shortlist announced

And look at that. Now even FIFA have a readable link. FIFA.com - adidas Golden Ball nominees announced Maybe I was just blind.
 
How is Messi nominated? He was almost as disappointing as Rooney.

Which is why I asked. I haven't seen much of Argentina so I didn't think it was right of me to say that he shouldn't be in the list. Goals aren't all that make a good player after all.

If you watch the vid they say that the list was made by football experts at FIFA. And experts are always right aren't they? 😉
 
Yeah, he was alright, but hardly a nominee for player of the tournament. He's only nominated because he was brilliant in the last year or so, on the world cup alone he's been decent, but nothing more.
 
If I have spelt uruguay or urugyan wrong.. ... .. who cares?

I just watched the Germany v Uruguay game. It lived up to my expectations;
Germany played good enough to win.
The urugyan players were dirty, willing to cheat at almost every opportunity.
The referee was incompetently bad.

The urugyan 2nd goal was directly because of a tackle made by one of them.
About that tackle.
The urugyan player went in far to late, for it even to be considered he had any intention of getting the ball. A minimum of a free-kick, possible yellow card. He also caught the German player on the upper thigh with the studs. A minimum of a red card.

Why was the last free kick of the game given? Because the referee was incompetant.
Both players were using their arms, the Urugyan player was behind the German player. (If you see a replay, look at the face of the Urugyan player).
Can you say trying to get a free kick?
In the game against Ghana he deliberately handled to ball to stop a goal. Making him a nominee for biggest cheat of the games.

When the German's scored their second goal, watch the defenders actions. The urugyan no:2pushed the German striker with both hands.
Do cheats prosper? After the winning goal was scored in a subsequent urugyan attack one of the urugyan attackers faked an injury, his body lying on the ground, the attack was stopped solely because his body stopped a pass that would have put one of their players in a good position to score.
Beating all the others; Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Spain are Uruguay. I think they have been the biggest cheats of this world cup.

A big beef I have is those ruddy useless horns the South African people like to blow, the sound that is made isn't even a proper note, it is a little bit off of a black note on the piano.
The sound makes it hard for the players to communicate during a game.
The sound makes it nigh on impossible for the coach to communicate to his players during the game.
The sound makes it hard for the players to hear the referees whistle.
Any player having to put up with that sound will get hearing problems and partial deafness. And that is a fact.
I infer that the people who blow those 'trumpets' want to obstruct the way the game is played, they want to cause partial deafness in some players.
I'd suggest that any player suffering partial or total deafness due to those ruddy horns sue FIFA, as it breaches the ' Duty Of Care ' regulations for those players.
In most countries of the world there are laws concerning maximum levels of sound (decibels) allowed to be caused by items. It could be maintained that the people blowing those 'trumpets' aren't aware of any damage they are doing to other peoples hearing. As far as I am aware, ignorance of the law isn't an accepted excuse.
 
What? There was nothing wrong with that Uruguayan tackle for their first goal. It's called a tackle, and a great one at that.

And the Vuvuzelas are local flavour, that's what the World Cup's all about.
 
Well done Spain, I can't believe how many players got booked
 
Some of the Dutch tackled were horrendous. Spain were the better side and deserved the win.

Overall for me its been a really disappointing World Cup, definately the worst i've witnessed in my lifetime. Many have spoken about how well South Africa has hosted the tournament and that is true but when it comes down to the Football its fallen below expectations.

Many big players haven't lived up to the hype well many games have been painful to sit through due to the negative way teams have set up during the competition.

Another thing that this World Cup lacked was atmopshere. I can remember at other World Cup's the crowd generating a real sense of excitement for the game. This World Cup has been blighted by the sound of the often annoying Vuvuzelas which are not only are hard to listen too but also see almost no crowd chants being heard which is what the competition is all about.

Hopefully Spain's victory will see teams adopting a new style in Brazil 2014. Too many sides have been conservative in this World Cup.
 
I think the defensive styles of Greece in 2004 and Italy in 2006 made teams think that they would win if they played more defensively... hopefully Spain's victories in 2008 and now 2010 will set a new blueprint.

Well done to Spain! They perhaps weren't at their best in the competition, but there's no doubt that they're the best team in the world. The Dutch were absolutely awful last night, I've no problem with the tactic of stifling the opposition and getting men behind the ball, but Holland's tactic of "Kick Xavi and Iniesta until they stop moving" was just terrible. It would've been bad for the game if they had won... and how ironic is that? Holland were the Italy of this tournament, Germany were Brazil and France were Holland... it's a funny old game.

Props to Forland for getting the Golden Ball, and Muller for the Golden Boot. They both deserved it.
 
Netherlands should be very happy that they just got one player sent off and so late in the game. I loved how they played tactically and how Spain had huge troubles in the first half. But they stepped over the line more than a few times. It's a difference between playing tough and playing dirty at the level they did. After 60 minutes they game got more open and fun to watch. Can't believe it ended 0-0 at full time. Great chances for both teams. Iniesta stepped up his game in over time so that he scored the goal felt natural. Spain did what they needed to to all tournament so I say they've deserved to win even if Germany was the team I liked the most. Most happy for Casillas.

As far as I know only one team was unbeaten this tournament. You know which one? It isn't Spain. 🙂

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Props to Forland for getting the Golden Ball, and Muller for the Golden Boot. They both deserved it.

Most definitely. 🙂



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Not really sure what I think about this. He's great potential but I'm not sure he's going to be a consistent performer. All in all I hope he's cheaper than Benayoun that went to Chelsea. I got a feeling Cole have a higher salary and got a decent sign on bonus. But he's english and with the new rules coming we need more of these so in that regard it's a good signing. And he's younger than Benayoun.
 
Some americans don't seem to care much about football. You've just the won the word cup...

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We had a fantasy league last season and although I didn't do good I wonder if someone is interested in taking part again?
 
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