Argentine's Lionel Messi is World's best
On Monday the 10 of January 2011 Fifa voted on who was the best soccer player in the world in the year 2010 and that honor went to Argentine's ace forward Lionel Messi. He was in contention for the award with Barcelona teammates Iniesta and Xavi Hernandez. For this year going forward Europe decided to combine its ballon d'or award with the Fifa player of the year honor. So there will be no more European player of the year award. Lionel Messi is the biggest of the star players at his Barcelona team that is full of them. He won the award last year but there were some doubts going into this year's voting whether one of his team mates might beat him to the award. That is because both Iniesta and Hernandez had a better record with their world cup team Spain at the 2010 world cup. Argentina had a great run but they were eliminated in the quarterfinals in a rout by Germany.
Lionel Messi is considered to be the best player in this generation and he wants to claim a place in the all time greatest list along the likes of King Pele and fellow countryman Diego Maradona. To do that though, he would have to get a world cup victory under his name. He would get two chances to accomplish the fit. The first opportunity would come in 2014 when he would be 26 years of age and the next one would come in 2018 in Russia when if he is still good enough to make the Argentine's national team would be held when he is 30 years old. His best bet would be to try and carry his team to victory in 2014 in Brazil. The competition would be held in the South American continent and at 26 he would be at the peak of his game I think.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
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