Sneijder makes Mourinho cry…

@goorange, The media country rep, is free to vote to whome ever he wants, only the coach cant vote for himself/his player, the captain cant vote for his himself/team mate or his coach

Mark van Bommel: “So my vote was ineligible? Ridiculous. They gave me the form and there was no instruction about new rules! No one informed me. And if I had to do it again, I’d vote for Sneijder and Robben again! If the question is: Best Player, period, you can fill in Messi for another 10 years. But the question was: best player of 2010! And in my book Sneijder and Robben had the most impact in 2010, both instrumental in the World Cup and Champions League. End of Story for me.”

@Jan, i think van Bommel just said what everyone here is thinking…Messi might be/is the most technically gifted player in the world but the award should be for player of the year (accomplishments, impact on team’s success, world cup etc.).

One thing i noticed is that a lot of people defended Iniesta’s inclusion into the top 3 by saying that he was the man of the match in a couple of spain’s matches at the world cup…what they forget to mention is that Sneijder was the man of the match in almost all the Oranje’s matches, besides leading Inter to the treble ofcourse.

Posted from  Canada

most hated:

totti
ibrahimovic
schumacher
roy keane
lothar m.
maradona
C.Ron
balotelli

basically anyone with a huge ego who is arrogant and displays poor sportsmanship (cheaters or violent players trying to hurt others)

btw…never thought anyone would put puyol on this type of list, he fights hard and clean (well as clean as you are likely to get from a top flight defender), is loyal and down to earth (not egotistical/arrogant), oh and has awesome rocker hair which is a nice change from the high maintenance prima donnas that put more effort into their appearance than their tracking back/tackling (here’s looking at you CR). i thought if anyone on barca was dislikeable it would be iniesta (he did get Heitinga red carded in the finals and this is an oranje blog afterall) or Pique, who is never afraid to tell anyone who will listen how good Barca is, as if it all because of him.

Posted from  Canada

Hey Jan – waters are moving south towards your area – stay high and dry. It looks like history repeats itself as several people died trying to help or take a last look at friends properties. Make sure your kids don’t play in what looks like “innocent” streams of water. Take Care Buddy !!! The worst for Brisbane is over at least.

Posted from  Singapore

Look after yourself mate. This blog needs you but more so does your family

@jan Yesterday i saw a dream i went in to water in by bike with my uncle..but we escaped from that……i dont know why i saw such a dream…Take care buddy

I read an article on the internet that points out a very interesting fact: if you read the list of who vote who, according to the old format where only the sport journalist’s votes count, Sneijder will win (basically the France Football award, following Cruyff, Platini, Van Basten footstep) where Messi will win the FIFA player of the year (with the national coach and captain’s votes). Which smart ass that come up with the idea to combine these 2 awards?

Posted from  Canada

With all the journalists’ votes: Sneijder is #1 with 320 points, Iniesta is #2 with 313 points, following by Xavi at #3 then Messi is #4.
Nothing against De Jong but he probably make the list of most hated player if he does not change the way he hurt other players.
I hope one day we have a player becoming FIFA president, not a business man. Beckenbauer is too old now. Platini is probably our best hope. Cruyff, well even if you offers him 10 millions a year, he probably turn it down as he probably dislike the way FIFA is. The only way he accepts the job as if he has the power to kick all of the current people out and bring in players, like what I read about Ajax now.

Posted from  Canada

Hien, you should read ALL the posts here , Jan mentions the same thing a while back and I repeat the FIRST post on this article…….deja vu ?

I was just listening to the BBC about the Ballon d’Or and the Fifa Player of the year. It was confirmed that if the same people (journalists) who vote for the Ballon d’Or were the ONLY ones voting, Sneijder would have won the Ballon d’Or. It also mentioned what we all agree on, It’s the performance over the year – NOT WHO IS THE BEST FOOTBALLER IN THE WORLD – It’s like the Oscars which clearly states for the year “Best Performance by an Actor” – my 2.5 cents worth !!

Posted from  Singapore

My most “loved” players list:

CR9
CR9
CR9
CR9
Totti
Materazzi
Robinho
Adebayor
Melo
Bebeto

Posted from  United States

@carlos, you are right, i think its good to have one combined FiFA Ballon Dor, but the rules of votes must be 50/50, 50% for the media as per and 50% for Coaches and captaines it will be fair and combined together.
as per the current rule or may be they have to rule out players/captains votes, and keep coaches only.

ballon dor award load factor =33% it must be 50%
Fifa award load factor = 66% its must be 50%

to be fair combined votes : coaches votes must be multiplyed by 0.5, captain by 0.5 and media by 1.

my list

CR
CRon
CR9
Christiano Ronaldo
Chris R
Christiano R
C Ronaldo
Christiano Ron
Chris Ron
Ch R

Posted from  India

@ Agragami, ur forgetting Deco, Simao, Nani, Figo, Pepe, Ricardo Carvalho, Maniche and P.Ferreira.

Posted from  Netherlands

Agragami, his real name is Crissy Sissy Ronaldo…

Posted from  United States

sorry i meant her name is Crissy Sissy Ronaldo…

Posted from  United States

Robben is ready to play after tomorrow.he is back

Jad, about your voting suggestion, you’d have to balance out the number of voters from each country to be equal to eachother for the voting to become more “fair”.

You can’t have all journalists voting since that would mean you’d have about a 100 english and spanish journalists voting for every 1 or 2 Dutch journalist(s) that is voting as well. And you’d still see the votes taking on the same shape as the demographics in football fanbases (meaning most will be voting for the topclub players cause they are most watched/admired/etc).

Posted from  Netherlands

An example, Nasri won some award for best player for the first halve of the EPL, yet he has the same amount of goals as VDV but much less assists (5 vs 1).

Why does Nasri get the prize instead of VDV? Arsenal is more in the picture for the ones that are voting, more voters who know more about Nasri than VDV just because they’ve seen more Arsenal than Tottenham. Other factors apply naturally as well, but most of them tie into or relate to the fact that Arsenal is a bigger team than Tottenham and has better TV-ratings, or you could say the same demographics as the voters most of the time (people tend to forget that voters also have their favorite teams they like to watch and their favorite players).

With that last thing said, Vidic is my top dog in the EPL, has been ever since he arrived at MU. But who notices him…

I rate him equal to Stam. The Terminator. Not the young R.Stam (who is also pretty decent btw, also gone pretty unnoticed because he plays at a small club, should have been selected as backup to vdWiel instead of Bouhlaruz by now, but I’m drifting of my point, nvm).

Posted from  Netherlands

One big factor I forgot to mention as an example on how playing at a big team imrpoves your chances of being recognized by voters, the big games. Everyone watches the big games and that includes the voters.

Posted from  Netherlands

Thanks all! For your warm comments on our disaster here. And thanks Carlos for the heads up!

And it’s good to know that we all here ( and many with us) have given Sneijder the respect he deserves.

Due to work and circumstances here in Oz, I’m posting a bit less but once the whole circus starts again, I try to be back with one article per two days

Posted from  Australia

Welcome to the digital world: Rafael van der Vaart will start a new service on his website. All his individual moves ( dribbles, tricks, passes, shots, assists, goals) will be put on his site, with his personal commentary.

Once it’s happening, he’ll add his moves the day after a game. Cool eh?

Posted from  Australia

Inter Milan wants to sign Feyenoord striker Castaignos this week for 4 mio euros and leave him in Rotterdam for another year.

AC Milan is preparing an offer for Mark van Bommel.

The Bayern skipper would prefer to play in the EPL himself.

Posted from  Australia

yeah Alex, Deco, Simao, Nani, Figo, Pepe, Ricardo Carvalho, Maniche and P.Ferreira

@ Jalepinho :I calle him Chrissy pussy

Posted from  India

Arsenal could use a player like MvB – they need an experienced head who will make sure the players are in the right frame of mind. I’d like to see him kicking some asses up and down the training pitch after they put in the kind of performance they just recently did against Ipswitch (and Leeds as well).