Nominees announced for adidas Golden Ball 2010

2010 FIFA World cup Southafrica -Best Player Nominees announced

The FIFA General Secretary Jerome Valcke and Adidas Group CEO Herbert Hainer today formally announced the 10 nominees for the 2010 FIFA World Cup adidas Golden Ball. In this adidas Golden Ball is the official FIFA trophy for the “Best Player of the Tournament”. Totally ten nominee players were selected by the FIFA Technical Study Group(TSG) and includes football experts such as Kalusha Bwalya, Christian Karembeu, Jomo Sono and Gerard Houllier.


2010 FIFA World Cup adidas Golden Ball trophy Nominees are:

Diego Forlan (URU, shirt #10) Asamoah Gyan (GHA, 3)
Andres Iniesta (ESP, 6) Lionel Messi (ARG, 10)
Mesut Oezil (GER, 8) Arjen Robben (NED, 11)
Bastian Schweinsteiger (GER, 7) Wesley Sneijder (NED, 10)
David Villa (ESP, 7), Xavi (ESP, 8)
The winners will be Properly announced after the final on 11 July.Spain's Villa, Xavi and Iniesta leads the race for Golden Ball nominees.


Worldcup adidas Golden Ball past winners:
1982 FIFA World Cup Spain: Paolo Rossi (Italy)
1986 FIFA World Cup Mexico: Diego Maradona (Argentina)
1990 FIFA World Cup Italy: Salvatore Schillaci (Italy)
1994 FIFA World Cup USA: Romario (Brazil)
1998 FIFA World Cup France: Ronaldo (Brazil
2002 FIFA World Cup Korea / Japan: Oliver Kahn (Germany)
2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: Zinedine Zidane (France)

Round of 16 : June 29th results

2010 FIFA World Cup: Villa strikes, Portugal dreams End


David Villa nonstoppable on Tuesday evening. In scoring the one goal in Spain’s Round-of-16 win over the Portuguese. “Portugal were very stiff at the back and their keeper was in great form,” said a generous Villa after Spain had completed a small 1-0 win. “They didn’t make it easy for us, but I got one sight on goal and luckily it was enough.”

“Their keeper was terrific,” said Spain midfielder Xavi in honor of the impressive Eduardo. “He ended two or three great saves and even when we scored he made a superb stop from El Guaje.”

“I had a good game,” said by the Portuguese shotstopper, “but it wasn’t sufficient and in any case what really counts is the team’s performance and not what I do. It’s really trying to concede a single goal and get knocked out of the World Cup. Defence was believed to be one of our strong points but there was nothing we could do to stop them getting through.”