Sunday 24 November 2013

Ballon d'or controversy

Since 2008, an award was created by the FIFA board called the ballon d'or, today it is an award that all footballers around the world wish to hold one day and win, unfortunately it's not that easy, although I think it was a good idea to create an individual award like this I really think it is rigged. When the first award was broadcasted, it was superstar Christianity Ronaldo who won the award, I think he deserved it because he was the top scorer of the Barclays premier league (in England) and was the top scorer of the champions league, Manchester united, Ronaldo's team at the time won both the league and champions league thanks to the Portuguese international. The following year, Lionel messi the Barcelona superstar won the ballon d'or, for the same reasons cristiano won it back in 2008, it was well deserved. But in 2010 Lionel messi won it another time, why? The world will never know, because the people were really sure that Wesley sneidjer the inter Milan superstar was going to win it for sure because of his team winning all trophies in the same year. In 2011 another robbery took place where Lionel messi, won the award again! It was a robbery because Ronaldo was the top scorer of the world, top scorer of the league and won the league but only made it to the semi final in the champions league. After the third time messi won the award the people were getting pretty furious because of the lack of explanation. Then in 2012 the ballon d'or became a voted award, every captain from every national team in the world gets three votes for who they think will win the ballon d'or and for the fourth time in a row Lionel messi once again won the award. When messi won the award and the players votes came out to the media, many players said that their votes had been changed and that those votes were not who they voted for... Currently Ronaldo is the top scorer of the champions league and of the league itself because if messi's injury, currently Ronaldo has 70 goals in 2913 and I am very looking forward to the award ceremony in January in Munich to see if Ronaldo will once again get the trophy he we'll deserves. 

Friday 22 November 2013

My thoughts on Real madrid

We have almost reached the half of the season up to date (Nov 22 2013) and I can happily say that i am somewhat happy for Real madrid at the moment. In La liga there is 20 teams, every team play against each other twice, one at home one away, and the total amount of matches at the end of the season is 38 games. Currently, we have played 13 games out of 38, Real Madrid are currently 3rd place in La liga, with Barcelona leading and Athletico Madrid right behind them. About two weeks ago, Gareth bale the Tottenham hotspur transfer of the year (140 million dollars) came back. He played aproximately 30 minutes in the game against the italian giants Juventus, where they won and Gareth had some opportunities and played nicely in my opinion. Where Gareth did badly though was when he played against Barcelona, in the world waited Classico. I did not see Gareth do anything in the entire game, and he played the whole 90 minutes, Real madrid lost the game 2-1 unfortunately, it was an upset for me because i was really expecting another score. The game ended badly not only for the disappearing act of Gareth Bale but for a bad managerial lineup by the manager Carlo Ancelotti. Many media reports suggest that Carlo was afraid of the result, and so do I really because for the first time in my entire life, a manager played 6 defenders together.. He played 4 centre backs, (normally managers play 2) and had 2 full backs which did nothing thurought the game, Carvahal the right back did a great job defending Neymar, but only after Neymar scored on him. Alexis Sanchez scored an amazing goal for Barcelona, i cant even say anything except the fact that it was poor defending. He literally chipped the ball over the defender and the goalkeeper to slot it in. Currently Ronaldo is the top scorer of not only Real Madrid but also for Europe, he currently is the leader in goals with 70 in 2013, and 21 so far in the season (19) matches played and I can gladly say that I am very happy with his performance and am honoured to call myself a madridista