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Real Madrid's Fabio Cannavaro becomes first defender in history to win Golden Ball

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Fabio Cannavaro, captain of Italy's world cup winning squad has been announced by FIFA winner of the Golden Ball, which is the player of the year award for soccer (FIFA world player of the year started in the early 90's and is not considered as prestigous as the Golden Ball). Although some may argue that Franz Beckenbauer was a defender and one it before Cannavaro, Beckenbauer was not a last line defender, but instead played more of a mid-defensive player.

Anyway, congrats Cannavaro for winning the Golden Ball!! Much deserved IMO.
 
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Yeah, that's probably the downside (the fact that international football is becoming more defensive), but the merit is all his.
 
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Matthias Sammer in 1996 :wavey:
 
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True, Sammer also won it in 96' I'm not 100% sure he was a last line defender though..
 
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True, Sammer also won it in 96' I'm not 100% sure he was a last line defender though..
he was a defender though

but it's kinda awkward when you think that Sammer won a Golden ball and Baresi didnt :eek:
 
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I really hoped Fabio would win, he was amazing at the World Cup.

Oh and Sammer was kinda a sweeper, but was also very offensive and was not your typical defender.
 
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Rijkaard never won it when he should have, but congrats to Cannavaro.
 
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grande Fabio :yeah:
even if i'm sorry for Buffon :p
 
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Yeah Gustavo, I mean cannavaro had an awsome WC. Kaka was Brasil's best player in the WC, but he wasnt even THAT good in the tournament.

Cannavaro was a wall.
 
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Hablas español scarecrows?
un pochito :cool:

not really, but I speak and understand italian very well and because they are quite similar I can understand very little spanish

Santi (psichogaucho) is my spanish teacher here :lol:
 
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He doesn't deserve it at all... he is not even the best italian defender.
 
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Congrats Fabio, you totally deserved this. :hug: It's about time a defender gets recognized for the Golden Ball.

And for Zidane, he's played like 2 and 3/4 good matches this year in the World Cup...and that's about it. His teammate Henry even deserves it more than him.
 
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Canna deserves this 100%. Definately the player of this years WC. Why people talk about Zindane for this award this year I don't understand. And I bet Fabio looks very good in the pictures while holding the award.:aplot:
 
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Canna deserves this 100%. Definately the player of this years WC. Why people talk about Zindane for this award this year I don't understand. And I bet Fabio looks very good in the pictures while holding the award.:aplot:
Because he made the final of the WC almost single-handedly.
 
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Gustavo, whatever I mean, Zidane had a good WC, but he screwed it up with Materazzi, which I am not saying is a good person.

Cannavaro was probably the main reason Italy won the WC, due to his great defending.

It's nice for a change that they give the Golden Ball to a defender, it'l probably be many years before they do the same thing again.
 
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Gustavo, whatever I mean, Zidane had a good WC, but he screwed it up with Materazzi, which I am not saying is a good person.

Cannavaro was probably the main reason Italy won the WC, due to his great defending.

It's nice for a change that they give the Golden Ball to a defender, it'l probably be many years before they do the same thing again.
I don't care about what he's done to Materazzi, this criminal. It has nothing to do with the amazing performance he had during the tournament.

The main reason Italy won the WC is that all referees cheated other teams for them to win.

If a defender should have a Golden Ball, then it would have to be much better than him.
 
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seriously Gu, you're talking bullshit

you probably dont watch the european leagues at all over there so you cant have an idea of what Cannavaro represents
 
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