World Cup Awards

monteirof

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11 Jul 10

monteirof

Joined: 09 Jun 07
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11 Jul 10

Best player - Golden Ball: Diego Forlán (Uru)
Silver Ball: Wesley Senijder (Ned)
Bronze Ball: David Villa (Spa)

Top Scorer - Golden Boot: Thomas Muller (Ger): 5 goals and 3 assists (tie breaker was assits)
Silver Boot: David Villa (Spa) (5 goals, 1 assist)
Bronze Boot: Wesley Sneijder (Ned) (5 goals, 1 assist)

Best Goalkeeper Golden Glove: Iker Casillas (Spa)

Best Young Player: Thomas Muller (Ger)

Fair play award: Spain

monteirof

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11 Jul 10

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Good choices by Fifa. For me it's a surprise the Forlan's choice, they always pick someone from the final, but it's absolutelly well deserved!

Hopster

Santiago

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11 Jul 10

Spain - fair play award? Cheating got two opponents players sent off this world cup.

I think Germany should have got it.

mtthw

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12 Jul 10

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Surprised Iniesta and/or Schweinsteiger didn't feature in the top three, but I suppose goal-scorers always get the attention.

orion25

Art is hard

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12 Jul 10

Originally posted by Hopster
Spain - fair play award? Cheating got two opponents players sent off this world cup.

I think Germany should have got it.

Agreed. Spain were anything but sporting. Probably Ghana deserved it, no?

monteirof

Joined: 09 Jun 07
Moves: 4432

12 Jul 10

Originally posted by Hopster
Spain - fair play award? Cheating got two opponents players sent off this world cup.

I think Germany should have got it.

I remember the Chile player, but who's the other one?

Virtue76

King of the Ring-er

Joined: 17 Jul 06
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12 Jul 10

Originally posted by monteirof
I remember the Chile player, but who's the other one?

Heitinga.

monteirof

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12 Jul 10

Originally posted by Virtue76
Heitinga.

Well, you cant say this is cheating like the Torres dive against Chile. You may say ref was too severe. I think it was well deserved. Considering how Netherlands played the game, to have only one player sent off and aonly in the second half of overtime was pretty lucky.

kes29

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12 Jul 10

Originally posted by monteirof
Good choices by Fifa. For me it's a surprise the Forlan's choice, they always pick someone from the final, but it's absolutelly well deserved!

I agree, Forlan dragged the hard-working but mediocre team all the way to semifinals. Such a clever player, watch his movement without a ball next time you see him play for Uruguay or Atletico.

Virtue76

King of the Ring-er

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Moves: 50627

12 Jul 10

Originally posted by monteirof
Well, you cant say this is cheating like the Torres dive against Chile. You may say ref was too severe. I think it was well deserved. Considering how Netherlands played the game, to have only one player sent off and aonly in the second half of overtime was pretty lucky.

I agree. Van Bommel was very lucky to stay on and DeJong should have got a straight red for his kun-fu kick!

damionhonegan

Joined: 08 Dec 06
Moves: 28383

12 Jul 10

Originally posted by Virtue76
Heitinga.

Capdevila play-acted and made a Portuguese player sent off.
Villa also punched a Honduran player.

scacchipazzo

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16 Jul 10

Isn't the award based and the fewest number of yellows? Spain wins that one hands down.

A Unique Nickname

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16 Jul 10

Originally posted by scacchipazzo
Isn't the award based and the fewest number of yellows? Spain wins that one hands down.

i think they have a point system, certain number of points awarded for each, foul or red and yellow card.

it's not surprising spain won given that their opponents rarely had the ball for them to foul them.

Palynka

Upward Spiral

Halfway

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16 Jul 10

Another excellent Zonal Marking insight:
http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/07/16/sergio-busquets-world-cup-final/

karoly aczel

The Axe man

Brisbane,QLD

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16 Jul 10

Originally posted by trev33
i think they have a point system, certain number of points awarded for each, foul or red and yellow card.

it's not surprising spain won given that their opponents rarely had the ball for them to foul them.

its not just ball posession but also what you do with the ball while in possesion. If you dont take players on then you wont get any yellows against you either.