Italian Sports daily “La Gazzetta dello Sport” picked beforehand & rightly the three candidates of the FIFA Golden Ball (Iniesta, Xavi & Messi) announcing that Wesley Sneijder would be left out. They have even published that due to “inside” information the winner of the 2010 FIFA Golden Ball would be Andres Iniesta.
Today the same Italian Sports paper publishes via their “inside” informer that
Hi punters! I thought you may find interesting to know the three votes given by Spanish National Football Team Selector & Coach Vicente Del Bosque for the 2010 FIFA Golden Ball Award. As you may already know, a Selector cannot vote for a player of his same country, thus Del Bosque had to pick from outside the Spanish Football Team
Spain Football Team Coach Vicente Del Bosque
His three votes
Our younger readers may not know that current SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAM Selector & Coach Vicente del Bosque was a well known & successful player for REAL MADRID & a Spanish International. Below is Del Bosque as Captain of the SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM in 1978 just before a EURO 1980 Italy Group qualifier against Cyprus.
Marcelino, Cundi, Miguel Ángel, Villar, Alesanco, Migueli, Heredia, Del Bosque (
Some World Cup humour from Spanish Sports daily & Barcelona based paper "Mundo Deportivo". Its cartoon section called "Pelotazos" gives a funny look at how two different people from the SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM reacted to winning the FIFA World Cup.