Barcelona striker and Argentina soccer Lionel Messi Monday in the city of Zurich Swiss award for best player in the world in 2010, and for the second year in a row.
And the superiority of Messi in this award to his colleagues in the Catalans Xavi Hernandez and Andres Iniesta, in a referendum participated in a panel of journalists, coaches and leaders of 208 national teams under the umbrella banner of the International Federation.
Has changed the name of this award and became the "Golden Ball / FIFA", following the merger of Golden Globe Award, which was provided by the French magazine "France Football" and the award for best player in the world that was provided by the International Federation, after the signing of an agreement between the parties on July 5 last in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Messi is the culmination of a big surprise in view of his failure with his team in the last World Cup in South Africa, and let her team tango humiliating loss to Germany 4 - zero in the quarter-finals.
The Messi himself nominated his fellow Iniesta and Xavi to win this award, considering that the greater their chances of luck because they won the World Cup, while the Argentine star wedding and let the football world early.
Messi was said in this regard, "I'm sure that the World Cup will have a significant impact in the final decision this year. Will serve in their interest. If I did not win it, I wish with all my heart to win one of my colleagues in Barcelona."
He added: "My name is Xavi and Iniesta appear in all the results, and the fact that they are impressive indeed, these are the great players deserve the award more than anyone else."
Messi is the culmination of the best consolation prize to him to participate in a disappointing World Cup last year.
It was Xavi and Iniesta candidates for the award after a big contribution in the leadership of their country's team to make the world title for the first time in its history.
Iniesta and played an important role at the coronation of the world by scoring the winning goal against the Netherlands (1 - zero) in the final World Cup South Africa 2010, Chafee was also the main pillars of the wedding ball hosted by the African continent for the first time.
The Messi won the Golden Ball award for the year 2009 by obtaining 473 points, ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United, Real Madrid), which won 233 points.
The Chafee III (170 points) and Iniesta IV (149) and Cameroon's Samuel Eto'o (Inter Milan and Barcelona in the past now) V..
There were different criteria for selecting the best player in the world following the merger of Golden Globe Award, which was provided by the French magazine "France Football" and the award for best player in the world that was provided by the International Federation.
For the first, which was launched in 1956 and was Stanley Matthews, the first English winners, voting was limited to only journalists, but then merged with the FIFA award was added to trainers and leaders of the 208 affiliated teams under the banner of the International Federation.
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