[新聞] Is The FIFA World Player Of The Year Award A Worthless Trophy?
Is The FIFA World Player Of The Year Award A Worthless Trophy?
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Today FIFA drew up a 30-man shortlist to compete for the 2007
FIFA World Player of the Year award. Astonishingly both Francesco
Totti and Zlatan Ibrahimovic were missing from those nominated.
Goal.com asks whether the award has now become worthless…
The FIFA World Player of the Year award has been littered with
controversy and criticism ever since its creation in 1991. The
system, for those of you who are not familiar, works as follows.
First of all FIFA draws up a list of nominations, before Coaches
and Captains of the national sides then cast votes for their top
three stars.
The player voted first gets five points, second gets three
points, and third earns one point. The winner of the prize is
naturally the player who earns the most points.
Until 2004, there was no list of nominations, thus in theory any
player in the world could be voted for. This led to some quite
farcical voting, which some may argue rendered the prize
virtually valueless.
To give you an example, in 2001, the likes of Iran’s Ali Daei,
South Africa’s Sibusiso Zuma and Honduras’ Carlos Pavon all
received votes.
FIFA hoped to prevent ridiculous voting such as this by
introducing a shortlist system in 2004. Only players on the list
could be voted for by the Captains and Coaches.
However on the evidence of the 30 players FIFA have chosen to
compete for this year’s prize, one has to wonder if these
changes have made any difference.
The absence of Francesco Totti from the list of nominations is an
absolute disgrace. It is an insult and I can say for one that I
now could not care less who wins the award because if the Roma
captain’s performances did not merit his inclusion then I must
be going insane.
Totti was top-scorer in Serie A, he was European Golden Boot
Winner and was outstanding as he led Roma to the Champions League
quarter-final.
Then of course there is the omission of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who
was a key protagonist in Inter winning the Scudetto last year,
and has been the best player in Serie A this season.
Furthermore, where is Bayern Munich goal-machine Luca Toni? What
about Valencia’s David Villa? Then of course there is the
phenomenal Cesc Fabregas of Arsenal, who has undoubtedly been the
best player in the Premiership this year, and the Gunners’
star-man last campaign.
Either FIFA is full of clueless idiots who have never watched
football in their life, or more than likely their list of choices
is dictated by politics.
Gianluigi Buffon was playing in Serie B last year, while Fabio
Cannavaro, a player I have worshipped for the past decade and
still believe to be a world-class defender, had an awful season
at Real Madrid.
Juan Roman Riquelme was frozen out of the Villarreal squad and
shipped off to Boca Juniors mid-season, Barcelona’s Samuel Etoo
ruptured his cartilage and missed six months of the last
campaign, while Inter’s Patrick Vieira also missed half of the
season through injury.
What football were these FIFA bureaucrats watching last season?
How on earth can these players be picked ahead of the likes of
Totti, Ibrahimovic, Toni and Villa?
It is a disgrace. The FIFA World Player of the Year award is a
Mickey Mouse Prize with no value whatsoever.
What are your views? Is the FIFA World Player of the Year award
worthless? Goal.com wants to know what YOU think.
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