GOLDEN BALL FINALISTS 2012 ANNOUNCED BY FIFA

FIFA has finally announced the three finalist for the Golden Ball award this year.The three players were picked from a list of 23 candidates for this year.

As a very important aspect to mention, the three finalists play in the same league the Spanish "La Liga" . Messi and Iniesta play in FC Barcelona  and Cristiano Ronaldo in Real Madrid FC. For three years in a row , three players from the same league are finalists for this award.  The Spanish football is very strong since seven players from the Spanish National team made the 23 - name list for the award. Spain is strong not only in the clubs but also in the national team as FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke said. 

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If Messi wins the award, this will be his fourth Golden Ball in his career. Iniesta has the chance of winning the award for the first time and Cristiano Ronaldo the second time. 

The finalists for the women's World Player are five -time winner Marta and United States duo Alex Morgan and Abby Wambach. 

Spain Coach Vicente del Bosque , former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola and Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho are running for  the world coach of the year award.

The women's coach of the year award will go to either France's Bruno Bini, Japan's Norio Sasaki or  The United States  Pia Sundhage.

The Puskas award for the Best Goal of the year will be presented to Radamel Falcao, Neymar, or Miroslav Stoch. 

The winner will be announced in Switzerland on Jan 7. 

2012 FIFA Puskás award for the Best Goal of the year nominees are

Voting for the 2012 FIFA Puskas award has

 officcially begun! A list of the top ten goals of 

the year was assembled by a  panel of experts

 and memebers of FIFA's Football Committee

Now you can vote for a winner, You have until 

29 November to vote for your favorite goal.

To select your favorite goal from the ten 

nominees 

      Click here 

The three goals with the most votes from this 

first phase of voting will then be up for a second 

vote, and you can again pick your favourite. The

 goal with the most votes from the second phase 

of voting will be the winner of the 2012 FIFA 

Puskás award. You can vote (again, only once) 

up to the day of the FIFA Ballon d’Or 2012 Gala

 (7 January 2013) when the 2012 FIFA Puskás 

award will be handed out. 

Enjoy these ten best goals of the year ! 

All the information was taken from

 FIFA's OFFICIAL WEBSITE

Zlatan Ibrahimovic's Fantastic Goal vs England

Zlatan Ibrahimovic's memorable fourth strike in Sweden's 4-2 win over England on Wednesday has sparked worldwide debate about its place in the pantheon of great goals. Without doubts this goal was one of the best this year and probably the best of Zlanta's carreer. 

You want to see his goal check it .
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THE NOMINEES FOR THE FIFA GOLDEN BALL 2012 ARE:

Sergio Agüero (ARG/Manchester City)

Mario Balotelli (ITA/Manchester City)

Karim Benzema (FRA/Real Madrid)

Gianluigi Buffon (ITA/Juventus Turin)

Sergio Busquets (ESP/FC Barcelone)

Iker Casillas (ESP/Real Madrid)

Didier Drogba (CIV/Chelsea, puis 

Shanghai Shenhua)

Radamel Falcao (COL/Atletico Madrid)

Zlatan Ibrahimovic (SUE/Milan AC, puis

 Paris-SG)

Andrés Iniesta (ESP/FC Barcelone)

Lionel Messi (AR/ FC Barcelone)

Manuel Neuer (ALL/Bayern Munich)

Neymar (BRE/Santos)

Mesut Özil (ALL/Real Madrid)

Gerard Piqué (ESP/FC Barcelone)

Andrea Pirlo (ITA/Juventus Turin)

Sergio Ramos (ESP/Real Madrid)

Cristiano Ronaldo (POR/Real Madrid)

Wayne Rooney (ANG/Manchester United)

Yaya Touré (CIV/Manchester City)

Robin van Persie (HOL/Arsenal, puis 

Manchester United)

Xabi Alonso (ESP/Real Madrid)

Xavi Hernandez (ESP/FC Barcelone)

Champions League 2012 Group stage draw

The groups stage draw is as follows: 

GROUP A

GROUP B 

GROUP C

GROUP D

GROUP E

GROUP F 

GROUP H

GROUP OF DEATH  OMG....THE WINNERS OF EACH  LEAGUE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES...

GROUP  D

UEFA 2012 BEST PLAYER IN EUROPE NOMINEES

 

How the nominees were shortlisted

A jury of 53 sports journalists representing each of the UEFA member associations whittled down the 2011/12 long list to Andrés Iniesta, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. The final three will feature in a deciding vote in Monaco on Thursday 30 August during the UEFA Champions League group stage draw.

You can find out how the votes were counted here  the officila UEFA site.

GERMANY AND ITS PERFECT NUMBERS IN THE EURO 2012

The EURO 2012 has finally begun and Germany has started with perfect numbers in this competition. They have played four games up to now and they have won the four of them.

The first game was :

      GERMANY   1                      PORTUGAL 0

In this match,  Real Madrid teammates  were playing opposite sides. Cristiano Ronaldo, Coentrao, and Pepe's Portugal  were playing agaisn Mesut Oezil and Sami Khedira's Germany. 

Mario Gomez scored and Germany won against Portugal his first match in the Group of Death. A difficult match with a great result. 

The second match was:

NETHERLANDS  1                    GERMANY 2

 

This game was "THE CLASH OF THE TITANS" since two of the favorite teams to win this competition played this match. Once again teammates from the same club were looking each other's faces  Robben  met Bastian, Neuer, Boateng, Lahm, Mueller, Gomez, and some others in this match. 

Super Mario Gomez scored the two goals for Germany and they defeated Netherlands.  Van Persie scored the goal for the Dutch. 

The third game of the Group of Death was:

DENMARK 1                   GERMANY 2 

 

This was not an easy game at all since Germany had to win this match to be the first of the group and avoid meeting Spain in the next round. 

Podolski scored the first goal for Germany. 

Then Khron- Dehli scored for Denmark.

At the end Lars Bender scored for Germany. 

Germany won its third game and passed to quarterfinals. 

The quarterfinal's game was 

GERMANY   4                            GREECE 2 

 

Germany showed all their potential and strength to the Greeks scoring four magnificent  goals. 

Now Germany has advanced to semifinals and it is eagerly waiting for its opponent that could be either England or Italy.