Another FIFA Fiasco???

           So According to FIFA,World's current top 3 player come from a same Football team.Just look at their descriptions,one is the pass-master who can control the game the way he wants against any opposition,another has fired the World Cup winner,while the third is almost a "Divine" player,who is supposed to be Light years ahead of any competition.You'd tend to think,the team that has all 3 of these greats would tend to be ,not the world,but atleast the Current Continental Champions,wouldn't you?? Ooops,they aren't!!!
           Welcome to the World of FIFA Ballon'D Or,another pathetic attempt by FIFA to associate itself with the Best of the Club Level football.Wesley Sneijder,the man who took a team like Internazionale to Champions League Glory,and Netherlands to the World Cup Final,isn't even in top 3 players ,according to FIFA! Amazing how they work that out...
        I'm in no way suggesting,that Xavi and Iniesta are not great players,yes,they have been the best midfielders in the world for last few years.But this is the award 2010,and you don't need a genius to tell you that Sneijder's achievements this year far outweigh those of Xavi and Iniesta and even Messi! Yes,we all know Barca play beautiful football like no one else does and all that,but sometimes we just give too much respect to them! Well,if Messi can get to be the favourite just because of 34 goals he scored last season,even after managing to win just the Spanish League last season 9 (that too by only 2 points!),why can't Frank Lamaprd,with his amazing 27 goals from Midfield last season,which lead Chelsea to the League and Cup double be the contender too??? I should just point out that Lampard managed to score more goals than Xavi and Iniesta put together last season!!! And if your argument is England's World Cup debacle,then What great things Messi's Argentina did in World Cup either?? A useless referee,who refused to change his decision,even though the entire stadium,including himself,knew it was wrong,was the reason they went past Mexico,and later got ruthlessly hammered 0-4 by the Germans.If this isn't the blemish on Great Messi's season,then why should it be on Lampard's? (He in fact even managed to score a perfectly legitimate goal vs Germans too,which was not given,if you remember!)
         

Wesley Snijder had an amazing last year,including the triumph over Mighty Barcelona

      I am not trying just to put forward Lampard's case here,but just pointing out that the Xavis and Messis haven't been that great they are made out to be.Barcelona have won just the Spanish League last season.Compare this to Sneijder's haul of the Serie A,Italian Cup,and the Champions League(first time in almost 50 years for Inter),and he did it with Inter Milan,whom nobody had really fancied,let's not forget they slayed the Catalan Giants on their way,with all their Player of the Year contenders!and then he lead the Dutch to the World Cup finals,too,where he didn't have the Torreses and Villas and Puyols and Casillas backing him up,either! My point is that this is an Individual award,and no matter how great Barca are as a team,there are better performers like Diego Forlans and Wesley Sneijders who have taken their teams forward single-handedly.
               But,of course you can't expect much from FIFA these days.Remember the latest controversy,handing the 2022 World Cup to Qatar,a country who has never qualified for the tournament,is currently ranked 113rd in the World,and has temperatures in excess of 40' Celsius in Summer.Taking the Game forward,are we?? Same thing goes for the Club World Cup,another desperate attempt by FIFA to relate itself to Club level Football.For pure financial reasons,it's played in Japan or Middle-East,and it's almost guaranteed that the final would be between European and South American Champions.Who bothers much about it anyways?

            So,come January,we will again be singing the praises of the Great Messis and Iniestas,for being the best players in the world,it might be true too,but the scar on the trophy will always remain,for it didn't have the chance to be nominated for the Lone Warriors like Sneijder and Diego Forlan!