jacketspuds Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Farcical. Should be a German getting the golden ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM3000 Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Messi isn't even in the top 20 of this tourney. Hes been shocking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Messi had a damn good tournament to be fair Have to disagree. Great in the group stages but poor in the crunch games. He wasn't even Argentina's best player in this tournament Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted July 13, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted July 13, 2014 Messi had a damn good tournament to be fairWhat? He did **** all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisagg75 Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 i'm probably on a paranoia trip but adidas sponsor the tourno and messi is their man so.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avfc96 Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Messi had a damn good tournament to be fair Not sure if serious. If scoring four goals against Nigeria, Bosnia and Iran is considered damn good than Villa have been damn good for the last two years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Messi had a damn good tournament to be fair Have to disagree. Great in the group stages but poor in the crunch games. He wasn't even Argentina's best player in this tournament I think he's had a decent tournament but hardly 'great' or 'damn good'. He really did nothing productive for them past the second round stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 To be fair to Messi, Maradona never scored 91 goals in a year or get voted best player on the planet 4 years running. Dunno why they only focus on what Diego achieved as the benchmark. Maradona never played for a club team that was even as half as good as the Barca team Messi has played in. If Messi had to play for a team of the quality of Maradona's Napoli, he wouldn't have scored anywhere near that number of goals in a year. Thats so true and look what he did for Napoli. He elevated them to their most successful period in their history.. Messi plays for a great Barcelona team... Anyway the true yardstick is what you do in a world cup.... have to disaggree with you as that would exclude george best. But that is why George Best is never considered of one the greats although talent wise he should be... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunRickyRun Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Adidas obviously had a big hand in that player award. Shame as it cheapens the award for past players 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Messi gets a trophy. Was that at Blatters insistence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 I'd give it to Vlaar all day before I gave it to Messi based on this tournament only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Messi gets a trophy. Was that at Blatters insistence? It obviously fixed.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Messi shouldn't even be in the running for the award. He had a good group phase, but you can't tell me he was better than Rodriguez or Robben. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voinjama Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 As I have already said Messi is amazing, but I can honestly list 15 players who have had better tournaments than him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted July 13, 2014 Moderator Share Posted July 13, 2014 Just for the avoidance of doubt, the Golden Ball award is sponsored by adidas. Hopefully that clears up any questions as to why Messi won it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted July 13, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted July 13, 2014 (edited) Supposedly Ronaldo came 3rd in the Golden ball Edited July 13, 2014 by villarule123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Messi shouldn't even be in the running for the award. He had a good group phase, but you can't tell me he was better than Rodriguez or Robben. yes those two would be my pick... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisagg75 Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 mascherano deserved it more 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heid3ster Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 He looked embarrassed to be receiving it, to be fair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 i'm probably on a paranoia trip but adidas sponsor the tourno and messi is their man so.... It's not as if Adidas is a German company, all of whose players are wearing Adidas shirts and many of whom wear Adidas boots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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