World Cup 2014

Jonah

Jonah

Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
Messi had four "Man of the Match" awards. That's four out of seven games.

Having said that he is also sponsored by Adidas who, co-incidentally, sponsored the Player of the Tournament award.
 
number9

number9

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I think the look was more the fact they'd just lost the final. he'd hardly be smiling. he said the day after "The truth is it (the award) doesn't interest me at this moment. We wanted to win the World Cup for all the people in Argentina and we couldn't do it. We tried, but we didn't have the luck we had in other games."
not his fault he was given the award, tho i'm sure he doesn't think it was deserved. Mascherano had a better tournament than him for Argentina.
maybe the judges wanted it going to someone at the final.
the goalkeeper trophy is ugly, someone actually got a large sum of money to design that!!!
 
number9

number9

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bigbluewolf said:
Messi had four "Man of the Match" awards. That's four out of seven games.

Having said that he is also sponsored by Adidas who, co-incidentally, sponsored the Player of the Tournament award.
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he scored the goals. hard not to give the winner 'man of the match', and they did struggle, hardly exciting games from argentina. he was only involved for very short spells in all the games. I thought he was carrying injury and they were just banking on giving him one or two chances where he'd have to move from the center circle.

yes, an industrial vote for player of the tournament there.
 
Withnail

Withnail

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Ooo, that reminds me...

Did you read the story about Kramer? He of the hefty whack to the head completely missed by all of the people who supposedly were 'minding' the match?

http://www.theguardian.com/football...ramer-germany-concussion-world-cup-final-2014

Referee said:
“Shortly after the blow, Kramer came to me asking: ‘Ref, is this the final?’” Nicola Rizzoli told the Gazzetta dello Sport on Thursday. “I thought he was joking and made him repeat the question and then he said: ‘I need to know if this is really the final.’ When I said: ‘Yes,’ he concluded: ‘Thanks, it was important to know that.’”
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It's difficult to believe that someone who has been given the duty of oversight of not only the rules of the game being upheld, but of the safety of the players on the pitch of which he commands, being so extraordinarily oblivious to the implications of such a question.

Who's the Prime Minister of Brazil?

P.S. Messi did, indeed, have every reason to be on a down - not least because he knew full well that, had he actually been the 'player of the tournament,' he'd have accepted it with a smile on his face.
 
gon2seed

gon2seed

(and me! - Ed)
Loved that, and the only way the Irish flag was going to make it on to the rostrum this year! I think!
 
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