Over the years, football in particular being the king of all sports has seen us witnessed great talents on the field of play. Even though we have our best footballer ever; from Pele, Maradona, the Zidanes Ronaldinho etc, over the last decade we have seen two players dominating the football world. It seems everything revolves around them, nobody talks about other players order than Messi and ronlado. It common phenomenon that when you are at the top, people pays all attention to you and most times over praise your efforts even when you performed below expectation. Every mistake is taken as a skill. This is natural factor.
There is no doubt that these guys are really fantastic with the ball whenever they are out to play, most times has single-handedly won their teams final points and qualification with amazing goal but it comes without effect on the football world. Like the saying that ‘’everything that has advantage has disadvantage’’, the presence of Messi and Ronaldo has really make football not to appreciate and recognise great talents within this period. The due overshadowed everything that we forgot that there were some great players in our mist. Some of these players who didn’t get their recognition are
Neymar uninformed departure
This was the main reason the likes of Nermay had to leave Barcelona because his efforts were being overshadowed or not talked about as it should even when Messi had a bad game. In the night game that saw Barcelona made history in champion’s league greatest come back in 6-1 win against Paris Saint-Germain in 2017. Barca scored amazing 3 goals in 7 minutes and 17 seconds but it was not Messi that did the magic but Neymar who curled in a wonderful free kick, winning and scoring a penalty as well provided his eight assist in delivery a pass which Roberto scored but guess what? It was the historic image of Messi who leapt on the s north end of the stadium advertising board with fans surrounding his feet in amazement to celebrate the victory that dominated the talk of the night not the man; Neymar who was at the centre of it all. This particular event was the major reason Neymar opted for PSG so that he can be talked about.
Wesley Sneijder Robbed of World Best
The argument still rages on when the issue of how Wesley Sneijder was robbed of world best in a broad day light is been mention as to why he didn’t win the best player award after helping Netherland to the FIFA World Cup finals in South Africa 2010 and injustice that he was not even among the top three. Many like myself still hold believe that Sneijder was unfairly treated with the men’s award when Messi performed below par in the world cup. Remember before then, FIFa world cup has been producing the best player any year it is hosted and 2010 was quite different with was the norm. The only achievement Sneijder was denied the award was that Messi score over 100 goals in a calendar years. That was amazing record but wasn’t enough to make him the best player that year. Sneijder was superb and consistent in two popular competition of that year in champion’s league and World Cup as well as winning treble with Inter Milan of Italy. Inter had eliminated Barca in the semi finals of the UCL in which Sneijder martial the midfield. His skills was the major factor Jose Mourinho used in unlocking opponents defences and surprisingly took Netherland to World Cup finals coming out as joint top scorer in the competition while Messi Argentina was eliminated at the quarter finals.
Iniesta Denied World Best
Iniesta remain the best midfielder that have martial the midfield with excellent passes, assist and control in the last decade more than any midfielder you can mention. Despite his prowess, he was not considered to be the best player due to the influence of Messi in the team. In the same 2010, he helped his Spanish team to the World Cup finals and lifted the trophy couple with his performance in UCL that year in the heart of Barcelona midfield but was best recognised as best runners up in the Ballon D’or award.
Zlatan Abrahamovich not talked about
Is the most complete striker over the past 10 years as well more than Ronlado and Messi. With his huge body and height, Zlata was a player that every defender was afraid of. His aerial ability is second to none. Is it the power in his legs when it comes to playing shot that goals with speed of light and I stand tobe corrected that he was more power in shooting the ball than Ronlado and Messi joined together. Zlatan on many occasion has praised himself to be the god of soccer even when he nobody recognised him. His overhead kick goal against England and scoring right from the centre of the midfield couple with his three goals against Portugal are good moments Zlatan Abrahamovich that we can remember.
Modric in the picture
It is on this background that I hold the believe that the award given recently to Luca Modric as the Ballon D’or winner was really an adornment of the many sins football committed against these great players. If your listen to Modric post award interview you will understand this more. He said he was dedicating the award to all the great players that the football world never appreciated.
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