I was talking about leadleader saying that Dazer assumed that he (leadleader) cares about the award then turns around and makes the same assumption back at Dazer. He's funny like that.
This years award for "Level Headed Messiphile" goes to:.............................. Jaweirdo! For showing humility and grace in defeat. Bada Bing gets: "Most Suicidal" leadleader takes home the: "This Trophy Doesn't Mean Anything" award. Greatstriker wins for: "OMG!! Anybody but Ronaldo!! This Is Stupid, I'm Going To Tag 10 Peolpe To See If They Agree With Me" award. James gets the trophy for:"Trash Everything About Ronaldo All Year, Then Claim He Deserved It All Along" Pipiolo wins the "How Can I Make Another Argument For The World Cup To Convince These People??" trophy And Finally! Bocafan. You are now the owner of the highly coveted, intensely sought after: "Surely Messi's Ballon D'Ors Were More Valid, Important, Accurate and Impressive" Award. Congratulations to all of tonight's winners. Tune in next year for the 2nd annual "Bigsoccer-Messiphile-D'Or" presentations.
Congratulate Cristiano Ronaldo on winning the 3rd Ballon d'or (i'm too late). Also,Inesta is in the team of the year is a big joke
It's also surprise that Messi is 2nd,not Neuer despite the fact that he was the best player comparing to Ronaldo by people. And Inesta had a poor performance at Barca 2014,a terrible performance at world cup,still is in the team of the year.Inesta is truely type of a player who always is considered as one of best even though he played badly or well
and let me add : EdgarAllenpoet. seems get lost here, a Football forum, not political BS forum For your info, in case you will fail to prove your BS claim of mine (post_) Yes all year, when CR7 fan boys tried to put him up to Eusebio or Pele = deserved huge thrash now in winning ballon dor of this weak era: whoelse but either Messi or CR7 to win it ? LOL so easy guess no sweat and too bad I am alwyas right
So wait. I'm not allowed to voice my opinion about how much full of shit the award is now compared to five years ago, because I don't really care about the award to begin with? Brilliant. NOTE Funny how you see "irony" in everything but not when you read the term "Poet" being self-associated by a poster like yourself. Even more irony? Yes. The fact that the added reference of Edgar Allan Poe is even more ironic than the term "Poet" would be by itself.
well I am not surprised (Messi just edged Neuer with a few votes) but over all calendar year I have to agree Messi >> Neuer ( overrated thanks to the WC winning )
In Leadleader's defense he has expressed how pointless he thinks the award is long ago. Long before CR7 was incontention for it and even called it pointless when Messi was the recipient @EdgarAllanPoet and p.s. you thought Messi fans were crazy: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/cristiano-ronaldo-fans-pelt-michel-4955583 lol
wow ... what a big mess (only if those fan boys understood football like me LOL) they would never have to do such crazy thing ... so obvious ... CR7 would win and he did - why bother In other hand if Messi would score from QF to final WC and win for Argentina, no matter if CR7 scores 116goals (not 61) Messi would get it
Did you feel the same in 2010? But let me not spoil this AA meeting with history Let us be honest here. We are talking about a guy who have been posting countless novels with weird theories trying to convince others how CR's performance doesn't merit Ballon d'Or and all of a sudden he doesn't care about the award! It is one thing to say I don't care about the award and another thing to turn around and write literally close to 100 Long comments arguing why a certain player (CR7 to be specific) doesn't deserve the award. Ironically the argument was started pretentiously as if the reason CR doesn't deserve it is because clearly he hasn't been performing well since the injury, and it is clear to see that as that sort of injury is difficult to overcome blah blah blah. From that theory it moved to Messi's performance has been clearly better because of the number of assists he was having at that time. The moment CR passed Messi with assists the argument took another direction. It was now the time for the famous exercise of subtracting the goals of CR in the CL to show his 17 goals record was not impressive and most of them were useless...Then went to Madrid would have still won without him because they are clearly strong even though they came #3 in La Liga...Then the denial of easy WC group for Argentina...Then the famous 4 goals + 1 assist >>> 17 goals + 5 assist. Fast forward to the 12th of Jan 2015...this guy had mysterious knee injury that somehow disappeared at the beginning of La Liga, he won because of inflated stats, image, scoring against weak oppositions. Is this the evidence of a rational football fan who doesn't care about the award??
not to mention that the voting is pretty transparent - you could see who voted for who, and there has been no evidence of Adidas or Nike buying votes from journalists or captains. Lets just kill the conspiracy theories now
You have to earn your way there. Companies don't just arbitrarily assign humans to be the next superstar. Plus if Nike wanted they could (and they will) have a new superstar player to make them a bunch of money. First they player has to be good enough (and in this case this means better than CR7 and Messi) though.
agree ...in the sense a player greatness needs proven over a period of time not a single season wonder .... Neuer still has time to build up his legacy bottom line, #3 is a great achievement for a GK
"Not caring" tends to give the impression one would render no opinion. That's the exact opposite of your actions. For instance I do not care about the price of a pack of cigarettes in Puerto Rico. I can also now definitively say, I will never make 6 posts about the price of a pack of cigarettes in Peurto Rico. Yes, Edgar Allan Poe means that I am to come to a football forum and worry if my words are poetic. You are stupid in the literal sense of the definition. I do see irony however in someone who claims to be "praised by reputable writers" whose post are filled with conjecture, irony, contradiction and factual errors. All of the traits which would make a reputable writer not "praise" you but okay...I'll play along.
it's funny that Comme reopened this thread so we could continue our argument on who is a better writer between leadleader and edgarallenpoet lol
That's a very naive notion. Companies like Nike look at much more than just sporting credentials or prodigy shown as a teenager. Possessing the right nationality is one important factor coming into play, shifting the risk-assessment of how much resources they want to invest in a young player.