While i was listening to a sports station on a local Radio, something
came to my mind concerning the award of the Uefa Ballon D'Or. the
presenter had argued that in a game of football no one player is dispensable for the system to work effectively. By this i concur that
all sections of the team are very relevant and can be buttressed in a
red card situation where the game most times changes in favour of the
complete team.
My argument is that without some particular mix of players, a certain
Messi, Ronaldo or Robin Van Persie would never excel as much as we hear about
their exploits (don't get me wrong they are players with exceptional
skills). Every section of the game has its own unique functions; thats
why it sounds extraordinary when a defender scores more goals than a
striker. So a goalie would have an excellent season for keeping several
clean sheets in a particular season. The effect of that may be what
Peter Cech described as thus, "Players win games, but goal keepers win
trophies". If a player is given an award cos of the contributions he has
given to a team obviously a top level team on the log at the end of the
season then we should look beyond awarding the presitigious Ballon DÓr
to just strikers as it has been the case in recent times, Ronaldo,
Kaka, Ronadinho, C. Ronaldo, Messi. Where do we dump the likes of world
class goal keepers, Central defenders, Midfielders who combine to make,
for instance the barca tiki taka ( its obviously not just Messi playing
the game all by himself.
MY POSITION: Rather than have a single award for the UEFA Ballon Dör, it should be divided into Best Goal keeper, Defender, Midfielder and Striker to advance a perfect competition amongst direct peers. It would be unfair to have a goal keeper or defender compete for a place with a striker who just but scores goals even when these goals don't even win the team trophies. (Van Persie had scored 37 goals in a season without Arsenal winning a trophy; and you rate him better than Sczecny who avoided conceding several goals in the midst of a failed defensive line. Think about this, Michelle Platini, Sepp Blatter, Isa Hayatu
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