Articles tagged with "fifa-world-player-of-the-year"
Would You Rather: Win the Ballon d'Or or the FIFA World Player of the Year Award?
By Daryl | November 4th, 2009Most would agree that the Ballon d'Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year awards are the two biggest individual honours a footballer can ...
Holy Nominations! The FIFA Shortlist is here!
By Melissa | October 30th, 2009Whoa Nelly a lot has happened since I last wrote but I was a bit busy getting all hyped up then crashing like a narcotics ...
Nike Poses A Question: Love Him or Hate Him?
By chris | January 13th, 2009Every time Cristiano Ronaldo hits the news there's a mix of fangirl gushing and spiteful groaning which would have George W. Bush feeling loved by ...
Marta daSilva Wins FIFA Player of the Year
By Melissa | January 12th, 2009Figure I'd go ahead and imitate the post from Chris on the main site. Yeah, congrats to her. Oh and she's joining ...
FIFA World Player of the Year
By Paul | January 12th, 2009"I'm still ambitious. I want to carry on and get better and better, even though it's hard to achieve that. My ambition is huge." ''This is ...
Should This Man Have Won the Ballon d'Or Instead of Cristiano Ronaldo?
By Daryl | December 2nd, 2008Nope, it's not Leo Messi or Fernando Torres. It's Mohamed Aboutrika, the Al-Ahly and Egypt playmaker. In an excellent article on the Guardian's sports blog ...
FIFA shortlist filled with players in a league yet to play a game
By Melissa | October 30th, 2008Oh, wait. First I'm going to digress for a few seconds. If you are a Bay Area resident and of or above the ...
Cristiano Ronaldo's Choice for World Player of the Year? Cristiano Ronaldo Of Course!
By Daryl | October 24th, 2008When you've got a well established image as a perma-tanned prima dona, a little humility goes a long way. Unfortunately, Cristiano Ronaldo doesn't have a ...
Oddities in the FIFA World Player of the Year Votes
By Martha | December 20th, 2007FIFA have finally released the list of votes for their Player of the Year awards. Just to review, each national team captain and coach vote ...
FIFA's World Player of the Year is Kaka
By Martha | December 17th, 2007To the surprise of absolutely no one, Ricky Kaka received the FIFA World Player of the Year Award today. At the end of November, we ...
FIFA Short, Shortlist: Kaka, Messi, (Pretty) Ronaldo
By Martha | November 30th, 2007It's nice that, after screwing up the list of the finalists (No Totti, no Zlatan, but Patrick Vieira?!) for their World Player of the Year ...
FIFA World Player of the Year Shortlist
By ed | October 10th, 2007Here's the shortlist, in alphabetical order. Discuss: 1. Buffon 2. Cannavaro 3. Cech 4. Cristiano Ronaldo 5. Deco 6. Drogba 7. Essien 8. Eto’o 9. Gattuso 10. Gerrard 11. Henry 12. Juninho 13. Kaka 14. Klose 15. Lahm 16. Lampard 17. Ma
Oh, Those Wacky Spaniards
By Martha | December 28th, 2006Spanish newspaper Marca appeared on newsstands with a shocking headline this morning: The votes for the FIFA World Player of the Year were miscounted and ...
Breaking Down Those Player of the Year Votes
By Martha | December 19th, 2006In selecting the FIFA Player of the Year, each national team captain and coach voted for three players, ranking them first through third, and points ...
Another Award For Canna
By Martha | December 19th, 2006At an event with the completely surreal theme of Football Meets Mozart, the rumors suggesting wee Fabio Cannavaro would take home the FIFA World Player ...
Fabio Cannavaro named 2006 FIFA World Player of the Year
By Bob | December 18th, 2006Italy and Real Madrid defender Fabio Cannavaro picked up another award Monday when he was named 2006 FIFA World Player of the Year. For ...
Spanish Rumors: Ronaldinho to be named 2006 FIFA World Player of the Year
By Bob | December 12th, 2006The whole point of this thing called the Internet seems to be to spread rumors around and hope that some of them stick. We ...
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