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Messi Wins Record Fourth Ballon d’Or Award ‘He Wins FIFA Player of the Year 2012’
Messi has won a record four times Fifa player o the year award
Barcelona and Argentina striker Lionel Messi has become the first player to win the Ballon d’Or four straight years after being named FIFA’s footballer of the year this morning.
Messi was named ahead of fellow finalists Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid and Barcelona teammate Andres Iniesta to pass football greats Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini and Marco van Basten who all won the award three times.
Messi scored an incredible 91 goals in 2012, breaking Gerd Mueller’s 40-year-old record for most goals in a year.
American Abby Wambach won the Women’s player of the year award after scoring five goals in her side’s gold medal campaign at the London Olympics.
Coach of the year was won by Spanish national manager Vicente Del Bosque who beat out former Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola and Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho.
The team of the year meanwhile featured players from three teams and just two cities; Spanish sides Barcelona, Real Madrid and Athletico Madrid.
Miroslav Stoch of Turkish side Fenerbahce won the goal of the year.
Team of the year:
Goalkeeper: Iker Casillas
Defenders: Dani Alves, Gerard Pique, Sergio Ramos, Marcelo.
Midfield: Xabi Alonso, Xavi, Iniesta.
Strikers: Messi, Falcao, Ronaldo.
– nzherald.co.nz
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on January 7, 2013. Filed under International sport.
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Zoona
January 7, 2013 at 9:52 pm
Magnificent! Messi you deserve it. Let the critics play their game, you are just the best. Go Messi! Go Barcelona!
Ba medza
January 7, 2013 at 11:36 pm
Kwena ndiwe chikali!!! You are just following my footsteps. Congrats mwana!!!
Air Mukwai_
January 8, 2013 at 2:13 am
Awe wena tabofya imiti.
biggie
January 7, 2013 at 11:53 pm
efyooo…..
RASTAMAN(CULTURE DEFENDER)
January 8, 2013 at 12:49 am
FIFA IS AS CORUPT AS CAF.INIESTA DESERVED TO WIN NOT THIS BOY WHO ONLY SHINES WITH BARC.INIESTA WON EURO 2012.WHAT DID MESSI WIN?
Democrat
January 8, 2013 at 3:01 am
He deserves it. Give credit where it is due.
Silufwamunyama
January 8, 2013 at 6:44 am
Messi is just a record breaker. Barca is a team to watch & support. I’ll be always there to watch your skills.
k
January 8, 2013 at 8:23 am
messi jelous down,u ar good my boy.
Ba game
January 8, 2013 at 9:00 am
This kid too much ubwanga.
bholey
January 8, 2013 at 10:06 am
messi is a great player not ronaldo,hez 2 pompous lyke mourinho.go messi go barca!
bogolandi
January 8, 2013 at 10:21 am
la liga team of year
Pamputi
January 8, 2013 at 11:06 am
Y tha fuck r u reporting as if we dnt knw wht tha Ballon d’Or is?
Get a ma’f**kin lyf!!!
Votron
January 8, 2013 at 4:29 pm
This is unfair that award should have gone to colins Mbesuma.
High Above
January 8, 2013 at 6:03 pm
Mmmmmmm….Let me think about your nomination
Chi-colour
January 8, 2013 at 4:49 pm
Ronaldo’s team reached Euro Semis,
He also won La Liga with Real.
“Ladies & gentlemen, Messi!!”
I’m lyk W.T.F?!!
If this guy wins another Ballon mafi mafi,
I’ll personally go thr (Argentina) n shoot him in tha head!
RVP is the top scorer in England but wasnt included in top 10.
I’d also personally organise a sniper 2 take out Blatter!!
High Above
January 8, 2013 at 6:06 pm
Imwe ba Tumfweko stop perpetuating European propaganda on us. “…breaking Gerd Mueller’s 40-year-old record for most goals in a year.” Theres no such record! Who keeps the records? Where do you find this record? Do you just have to say it because Europeans are saying so? We already have our case for a record straight from Kabwe! All Europeans must stop this nonsense! They should just say he scored 91 goals. No record
Kabul.
January 8, 2013 at 9:11 pm
@ high abov, ar u normal? Kabwe warriours vs Barca? Chitalu vs Messi? He was scoring kabwe w vs which team? The boy deservz it even more. Be realIstic.
UCAR
January 9, 2013 at 5:57 pm
Read the blog you are responding to and understand before writing your response
Captain
January 9, 2013 at 1:14 am
Lionel Messi is truly an exceptional player, his goal ratio and ability to destroy defences at will is legendary. But is he the greatest player of all time? I doubt it. Personally, Ronaldinho and Zidane had better technique and ability with the ball and always made you ask: DID YOU SEE THAT? They scored less but they were incomparable when on the ball.
High Above
January 9, 2013 at 1:24 am
Kabui wabetole, u are the one who is not normal you colonial puppet without brains! can’t u read my posting? What’s wrong with kabwe warriors? Just because your peabrained mind has been conditioned and enslaved to think eVerything good comes from europe doesn’t mean you are normal. It actually means you are such a mental slave you cant think for yourself! Therefore you are abnormal! The europeans have to think for you. What a numskull. Godfrey ucar chitalu forever!
High Above
January 9, 2013 at 1:57 am
2mfweko I’m trying to address someone with a serious inferiority complex so allow my blog eh??
Big Daddy
January 9, 2013 at 9:33 am
I agree with you Ba Captain. You seem to be watching from HD 3D LED like me; picking all hidden moves not seen by ordinary guys watching black & white. While I am a fan of Messi he can not compare to the exraordinary skill of Zidane & ever smiling Ronadinho. These two had a wow factor in them.
Captain
January 9, 2013 at 6:17 pm
Well said Big Daddy
She - knows
January 9, 2013 at 10:52 am
91 goals and the season is not even over. And not just 91 goals but 91 amazing goals and moves. One must be insane to suggest he doesn’t deserve the award.Congrats young man. Ulebapikafwe including aba ku Man U even if I support them. Jealous down the guy can play ball.
UCAR
January 9, 2013 at 6:02 pm
The 91 goals are for a calendar year, not for a season. And if you follow your football 40 percent of Messi’s goals are from the penalty spots and free kicks. Unlike Pele who scored 90 percent from free play.
THE ONLY LIVING JAY
January 9, 2013 at 12:05 pm
Nothing against Messi, but to have him win the award four timez in a row makes the whole thing a VERY BIG JOKE.
chile 1
January 9, 2013 at 12:16 pm
Messi!!!! hate it or luv it da boy is bad news,Cr,iniesta and all thoz other guys will always play catch up
chile 1
January 9, 2013 at 12:16 pm
Messi!!!! hate it or luv it da boy is bad news,Cr,iniesta and all thoz other jockers will always play catch up
UCAR
January 9, 2013 at 5:59 pm
Kwena mu Zambia Comprehension lessons should be improved. Chizungu chifunika new teachers because the ones who have taught us the past 40 years have flopped!
Village Chicken
January 9, 2013 at 9:53 pm
@ Ba Medza, which way are you heading, Messi to follow you!!? @ Rastaman, agreed but would agree more if you nominated Iker Casilas. He won those for Spain.
@ Chi Colour, use my bullet for Blatter, but Messi is great. Let the Argentines take him down themselves for not giving them Blatter’s medal.
Iwe Gonga @UCAR, only you and your teacher flanked…do not externalise your defficiency. Night school now uses electricity, you with your teacher can enrol.
Village Chicken
January 9, 2013 at 10:06 pm
Ati RVP!!!????, so which one should drop out? Messi, Falcao, Ronaldo?
You got it right RVP has not delivered anything for his team…
Let him watch…like Sagna watched Clichy, Kolo T, Nasri, and others lift EPL trofy.
Zambia First
January 10, 2013 at 11:17 am
Ba High Zsmbians are muzungu worshippers. They can aknolege their own unless a Muzzungu tells them to do so
UCAR
January 11, 2013 at 11:34 am
Ba Village Chicken namuFwa ifyo ndelandA?