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. 

A FUNNY POST AFTER THE FIRST ROUND OF ALL GROUPS FROM EURO 2012

This post shows in a few words and with vivid images the first matches we had during the EURO 2012 ...very  concise but  at the same time precise...some people have such an amazing imagination.

UEFA EURO 2012 GROUP A and B RESULTS OF THE FIRST MATCHES

The first match of the EURO 2012 took place last Friday 8th and the final results for each match were: 

GROUP A 

Poland vs Greece was a game with not too much excitement for many people  and with a  final result that shows that both teams were not so accurate. Much more was expected from Poland being one of the host cities for this competition. The two goals were scored by Robert Lewandonvski (Poland) and Dimitris Salpingidis (Greece) . 

POLAND     1                       GREECE  1

Russia vs Cezch Republic was a match that surprised many people since many of them did not expect Russia to score 4 goals in their debut. Russia showed no fear for the Czech Republic and made a blistering start to group A. The first goal was scored by Aleksander Kerzhakov,  Alan Dzagoev scored  twice , and Roman Pavlyuchenko scored the last one. Besides Andrey Arshavin contributed with two assists to Russia's victory. Vaclav Pilar scored the only goal for Czech Republic.  

RUSSIA  4             CZECH  REPUBLIC 1

  

GROUP B

The Death's Group made their debut this last Saturday 9th. Holland vs Denmark was a game that created a lot of expectation since Holland is one of the favorite teams to win this competition. However, Denmark defeated Holland 0-1   surprising many that assured that Holland would win the match. Holland had many chances to score but couldn't define them.  The single  goal was scored by Michael Krohn- Dehli. 

HOLLAND 0               DENMARK 1

    

Germany vs Portugal was the game that kept everyone in front of their TV waiting to watch a great football match. Germany is one of the strongest candidates to win this competition but the last Saturday they did not show their best performance. The game was settled by a single goal scored by Mario Gomez . This result shows clearly how tight this group will be. Portugal players mentioned that they felt like if they did not get the result they deserved it but they were not lucky to score when  they had their  chances.  Let's wait for the next matches . 

GERMANY 1                    PORTUGAL 0

Tomorrow I will write a post in which I will include the Sunday and Monday matches Group C and Group D . 

THE OPENING CEREMONY F THE EURO 2012 POLAND UKRAINE

It has finally begun.

 Ladies and Gentlemen The EURO 2012 is here. We have been waiting for it for  four years and now we can enjoy it again. Europe and the complete football planet are going to enjoy watching the best football players and national teams against each other in order to be called the next european champion. 

If you missed the opening ceremony for the EURO you can watch it here. 

Enjoy it!!!!

Promo for the next Euro 2012 Poland & Ukraine

WHAT YOU CAN SEE IN THE COMING EURO 2012  WILL BE SOMETHING LIKE THIS: 

WAIT FOR IT AND ENJOY IT WHEN IT COMES!!! 

EURO POLAND - UKRAINE 2012 NIKE, MERCEDES BENZ, BITBURGER, AND SOME OTHERS SUPPORT THEIR TEAMS FOR THIS COMING EURO

The UEFA Euro 2012  is ready  and the National Teams are getting ready in the training camps before the competition   begins. Sponsors of each team are doing their work as well as using players , coaches, and national teams to sell their products and show their support for the different teams. 

ADIDAS, NIKE , Coca Cola, Hyunday,  and some others are always  ahead showing the best of their products using fantastic players and teams. This year is an important year for football in Europe since the UEFA Euro 2012 is almost here. These important brands know it and take advantage of it. For that reason they make  priceless  and magical ads. One really enjoys watching competitions like the EURO with each match and players doing what they like to do, playing with the ball,  but watching  these amazing commercials like the following ones make this competition even more  wonderful. 

Let's watch some of them.

Team HYUNDAY with the collaboration of amazing players like Benzema, Podolski, Casillas, Rossi, Sturridge show us how to challenge the best. 

I personally enjoy watching NIKE and their fantastic ads. "MY TIME IS NOW" is the new Ad made by NIKE in which we can see   Ronaldo, Oezil, Neymar, M'Vila, Götze,Ribéry, Sneijder and some others showing that their time is now.

Bitburger, a German beer, gives his support showing all the German National Team playing with their heart.

ADIDAS shows the Spanish National Team "La Roja" Spain ,the European Champion from EURO 2008,  with a nice video : " The past doesn't count. Everything is starting again".  In this video they show Xabi Alonso, Xavi Hernandez, David Villa, Fernando Llorente, Iker Casillas .

COCA COLA could not miss the chance of showing their support for the coming EURO 2012. With this nice video they a  person's changes after watching a football match. The ads changes  the colors of the flag according to the country in which they show it . 

MERCEDES BENZ showing their support  for the German National Team as well. 

There are more ads with fantastic players and teams but these were some of the most remarkable.