Lionel Messi, Ronaldo and Iniesta nominated for Uefa European Award

Lionel Messi, Andres Iniesta and Cristiano Ronaldo will go against each other again for Uefa’s Best Player in Europe award.

The trio emerged as the top candidates from an initial 32 player list for the award after a round of voting from 53 journalists representing each UEFA member association.

Messi won the award last year and had a prolific 2011 to 2012 season, scoring 50 league goals. He was also top scorer in the Champions League for the fourth successive season with a record with 14 goals.

The prize, awarded for the first time last year to Barcelona forward Messi, is firm by votes from sports journalists from across Europe and was introduced as a replacement for the Ballon d'Or when the prestigious honour was absorbed into FIFA's World Player of the Year award in 2010.

Iniesta was also named Player of the Tournament following the finals in Poland and Ukraine and UEFA has disclosed that Italy midfielder Andrea Pirlo, beaten in the final match in Kiev, came fourth in the vote to determine the Best Player in Europe award.

Ronaldo, temporarily, played an instrumental role in ensuring Real Madrid beat Barcelona to the Spanish title for the first time since 2008, with Los Blancos breaking new ground in terms of points gained and goals scored.

The winner will be going to announced on August 30th in Monaco on the same day as the Champions League group stage draw.


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£9k for shaming the World Cup FIFA 2010 fine Holland paltry sum after 'anti-football' in final against Spain

Holland's violent feat in the World Cup final has landed the Dutch FA a paltry fine of £9,244.

Eight Holland players were revealed yellow cards and one - John Heitinga - was sent off by English referee Howard Webb through the most ill-disciplined World Cup final in history. FIFA yesterday responded with a nominal fine, a sum which looks even lesser set against the £15m awarded to the Dutch for dying runners-up.

Champions Spain were themselves fined £6,162 for individual shown five yellow cards, but it is the punishment of Holland, whose plans were condemned as 'anti-football' by Johan Cruyff, which will dismay the football world. The Dutch FA also face a recompense claim from Bayern Munich, who have reacted angrily to news that Arjen Robben will be sidelined for eight weeks as a result of his early return from a hamstring wound sustained in a warm-up game to play five matches at the World Cup.

Tests have since found that a constrain tear was not properly diagnosed earlier.

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Round of 16 Schedule of FIFA World Cup Football 2010

Group stage of FIFA World Cup 2010 has been ended today. There were 48 matches detained over the last 14 days with minimum 2 and maximum 4 matches being taken place per day. Out of 32 teams participating, 16 have progressed to the knock out stage, while other 16 sides have been eliminated from the match.There were 101 goals in 48 matches averaging 2.10 goals per match. But its Unfortunately, this is the lowest scoring rate in group stage since the number of participating teams was increased to 32 in 1998 World Cup. There were 5 matches that finished up without producing any goal. Portugal’s 7-0 win against North Korea was the highest margin victory.

Round of 16, the first stage of the knock-out round, starts from 26 June. There will be 8 matches in the space of 4 days- meaning 2 matches per day. The losing teams would be knocked out of the tournament match, while the winning teams would reach the quarter final. So, round of 16 would see 8 more teams to be eliminated from the tournament.

If a match ends up in a draw after 90 minutes of playing, there will be 30 minutes of extra time split into two 15-minute periods. If the tie is still not broken, then penalty shootout would come into effect to break the tie between the two sides. In penalty shootout, each team is allowed to take 5 penalties and the team with highest number of goals from those 5 penalties is declared winner of the match. However, if the match is still tied, then ‘sudden death’ is used to decide the winner.

Time and schedule of round of 16 matches of World Cup Football 2010:

Uruguay vs South Korea – 26 June – 14:00 GMT - Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth
USA vs Ghana – 26 June – 18:30 GMT - Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Rustenburg
England vs Germany – 27 June – 14:00 GMT - Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein
Argentina vs Mexico – 27 June – 18:30 GMT - Soccer City, Johannesburg
Netherlands vs Slovakia – 28 June – 14:00 GMT - Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban
Brazil vs Chile – 28 June – 18:30 GMT - Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg
Paraguay vs Japan – 29 June – 14:00 GMT - Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria
Spain vs Portugal – 29 June – 18:30 GMT - Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town

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10 Best Football players in the FIFA World Cup 2010

The leading sporting occasion on this world is about to start in a couple of days and all eyes are set on South Africa. Teams have started coming to mass country and so does the audience. Everyone is successful to see there favorite players on the field struggle for FIFA world cup trophy. Some of the players of a confident sporting event are always highlighted as favorites. From the substantial players who try to win in a tournament, there are always best players who succeed. Let’s talk about the best players participate in the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa. So here is a list of 10 best football players to seem forward in the FIFA World Cup 2010

10. Lionel Messi

Lionel Messi, 22 years old guy, from Argentina with a club team named Barcelona. He is one of the youngest top 10 and a left-footer who uses low center of significance in striking the ball to goal. To know More about Football players after the break...
09. Kaka

Kaka, 27 years old midfielder, from Brazil with a club team named Real Madrid. He Coming from the upper-middle-class family, he also one of the best players in the football world making the Brazil team one of the best.
08 .Wayne Rooney

Wayne Rooney, 24 years old guy, from England with a club team named Manchester United. He is well-known as the baby-face-assassin who can beat from anywhere which allows him to score any type of goal and been proving his final skills.
07 .Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo, 25 years old midfielder, from Portugal with a club named Real Madrid. He has a special ability in long-range free kicks which enables him to score from anywhere.
06. Didier Drogba

Didier Drogba, 31 years old man, from Ivory Coast with a club team named Chelsea and holds the position of forward. He is an athletic player has become one of the world’s leading striker. His involvement in world cup is not shower right now due to his recent injury.
05. Steven Gerrard

Steven Gerrard, 29 years old midfielder, from England with a club team named Liverpool. He is an outstanding midfielder who also acts as a second striker or as a winger. Along with Frank Lampard, they produced the best duo attacking midfielders in the world. He is a nine-year experienced person of the English team.
04. Fernando Torres

Fernando Torres, 25 years old forward player, from Spain with a club team named Liverpool. He also playing in the football world since the age of 7 and never stops scoring goals which made him one of the best strikers in the world.
03 .Xavi

Xavi, 30 years old guy , from Spain with the club team FC Barcelona and acts as a midfielder. He has his artistic ways of precise passes and vision with a great ability of maintenance the ball.
02. Frank Lampard

Frank Lampard is an English football player, who plays as an attacking midfielder for Chelsea and at international level for the England national team. He plays the largest part often as a box-to-box midfielder and has also enjoyed spells in a more advanced attacking midfield. He also considered one of the best footballers in the world.
01. Robinho

Robinho is a Brazilian football player, who presently plays as a striker for Brazilian National team. Robinho was individually chosen by Brazil legend Pele as his heir apparent at only 15 years of age.

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