It just fills me with disappointment that one of the greatest midfielders (and barring Zidance who technically played a very different role, Xavi in my opinion is the greatest central midfielder) of the last 20-30 years will end his career without a Ballon D'or.
Official Euro 2012 Thread
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Xavi winning the Ballon D'or has as much possibility as Schwienstieger winning a World Cup championship. Do the math yourself.
Atleast he got nominated for it once that's a big deal where greats like Paul Scholes could not even reach.
Iniesta on the other side has to be acclaimed for his efforts. Man has achieved what even Zidane couldn't achieve.
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UEFA EURO - Carlsberg Man of the Match Award – UEFA.com
Iniesta the MotM for yesterday's match.
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"I don't think we realise what we've done. In time we'll see. Are we boring? People who think we are boring, I don't think they understand the game." -Cesc Fabregas.
"They totally dominated this evening," Prandelli conceded.
Casillas himself broke a European Championship record by extending his run without conceding a goal in the competition to 510 minutes and he is delighted to have been a part of Spanish football's golden era.
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Spain 4-0 Italy: Rob Beasley asks will England ever be able to compete with such genius that Spain showed at Euro 2012? | The Sun |Sport|Football|Euro 2012
Nice Read!
Only South American brethren in the way and i guess only Argentina will be imapctful this time brazil will fail miserably again.
@hmir @Raza7154 @Shary Bhallu TC @NighteySenpai [MENTION=801]cobby[/MENTION] [MENTION=25983]AbbY[/MENTION]
Lets overview this glorious tourney and what's needed to win WorldCup.
Weak points teams have to look out for?
Well it can be easily said that Spain absolutely destroyed Italy in terms of all stats also that Spain is again going to be nominated as the fav for the next world cup as the defending champs but the most weak spot for Spain right now is a solid attacker like Villa who has been missed in this tournament defense is excellent in term of Puyol,Pique,Ramos Midfield is beautifully handled by Xavi,Xabi and Busquests and goalkeeping is no doubt at its apex with I.Cassilias,V.Valdes and Pepe Reina so Spain should mostly concentrate in their attacking in which they need key strikers pure strikers not MF posing as strikers even if Fabregas,Silva and Iniesta were good they need soild strikers like Villa and Pedro to make goals (What I wouldn't give to have Messi on the Spanish National Team)
i still believe the only way to beat spain is attack from flanks , do wing game , which portugal is good at , but in order to do wing game u need good striker to score on the wing attack which portugal dont have .
Argentina have one man lionel messi if he can play on wing for argentina , they have killer striker like augero and tevez who can score .
BBC Sport - Euro 2012: Spain striker Fernando Torres wins Golden Boot award
hardly made app and wins it
Argentina have one man lionel messi if he can play on wing for argentina , they have killer striker like augero and tevez who can score .
BBC Sport - Euro 2012: Spain striker Fernando Torres wins Golden Boot award
hardly made app and wins it
Torres winning the Golden Boot what is the Football World coming to? MARK MY WORDS FERNANDO TORRES IS A S#^& STRIKER
Torres is a good striker who just happens to be out of sorts at Chelsea. Then again, Chelsea's game doesn't really suit Torres. I mean the guy doesn't know how to tackle or clear the ball!
[MENTION=11105]SEvolution[/MENTION]:
Spain are a good team. I guess they have what it takes to win the WC 2014, however after that the team will start going downhill. The golden generation of players will start getting old, Xavi will retire, Iniesta will be moving past his prime years, Puyol and Villa will also be somewhere close to getting retired. Torres will be 30 as well, Casillias will be 33, his reflexes are bound to deteriorate. Xabi Alonso will be old too. I think it will be interesting to see, who Spain have been readying as there replacements. Germany are a young team, and they can do well, too bad they choke. Brazil is meh, have no hope for them...ever. Argentina can do well, but not sure about their tactics either, not to mention their defense is sceptical. Netherlands are lulz and their generation of players is getting over as well. I don't have hope for anyone. I had like to see Italy and France. These teams have real potential and can do well, I have high hopes for France. Young players, talented, potential winners, only issue they have to keep the off-field issues from getting to their head.
Imo.
Spain will heavily rely on Iniesta just like France in '06. Defence will still be at it's best Javi Martinez, Jordi Alba, Ramos, Pique just they have to sort out RB problem and the wall is complete, Busquests & Xabi partnership as CDM is cool (both of them were phenomenal in retaining the possession and moving forward), Xavi will be missed (I can't figure it out who'll play his role), Iniesta by the looks of his game he will rise as the best on the field. Spain has to bring in strikers Llorente, Soldado for sure. Navas on right with blistering pace is another addon
Netherlands has to fix up Ajax youth academy problems and bring it to life. I mean they are out of defenders and after watching their perf in euro i was shocked that likes of VDS, Stam, Van Bronckhorst were from this nation.
Germany is facing the same issue only hummels & Lahm will survive till WC i don't see any good coming from Boateng, Badstuber. It's outta my mind why Low didn't played Goetze for a minute. Reus should start ahead of Podolski and Kroos-Ozil partnership plus they've got to find a good sub for Klose as i don't think Gomez can handle every other game like Klose used to do for germans.
No hope for French they had the best guy on earth so they were dominating plus the best back four/GK one can ask for. I thought ribery will carry the torch but he loves to run circles only. Benzema should be dropped
every french legend is pissed at this guy and their defence is another lul party cuz mexes will leave till WC. The main problem is they are relying too much on Algerian connections Brazil will fail. Argentina will lose in KO stages as they can't handle pressure if we talk about forwards only they've got the best working chemistry (Messi, Aguero, Higuan) but at the back they are quite weak.
There will be quite different Italy we will see in WC 2014 with Buffon, Barzagli, Pirlo, Cassano, Di Natale gone. I don't see they will have 'dat run' which we witnessed in this tourney.
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[MENTION=22318]NighteySenpai[/MENTION] true that but still Torres is not what he used to be and i don't think that is gonna change and your predictions about Spain are spot on as well that is the question everyone is asking who is Spain keeping in the shadows to replace its stars in the current team the only pure strikers I see are Pedro and Villa and Villa is getting old while Pedro is uh.. not the best out there so just have to wait and see as far as other teams go Brazil are past their prime atm same case with Netherlands. Argentina are good but they don't quite have a good manager to organize the team better and bring out the best in each player.I agree with what u have to say about France and well Italy is also OK. I miss the time of Luiz Ronaldo and all those were fun matches to watch nowadays the teams are either at the top (Spain,Germany,Italy,etc) or LULZ (Netherlands,Brazil,Ireland,etc)
Spain totally obliterated italy and in my opinion argentina is the only side at the moment that can stop spain from winning the next world cup
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Did you know? Against Portugal, Xavi overtook Zinedine Zidane (843) as the player to have made most passes in the history of the European Championships (949) and also set up the most shots in the competition (25).
:gives @SEvolution and @NighteySenpai a withering look:
BBC Sport - Euro 2012: Garth Crooks's team of the tournament
However, why there are three English player's in his team of the tournmanet is just beyond me.
:gives @SEvolution and @NighteySenpai a withering look:
BBC Sport - Euro 2012: Garth Crooks's team of the tournament
However, why there are three English player's in his team of the tournmanet is just beyond me.
Spain Huge benefit is good players keep on coming ,
even if old guns xavi , puyol , villa will be gone there are gonna be still players like thiago , alba (already) & strikers are plenty coming on , plus barca youth academy is still there it will be producing backups for the upcoming players like fab , busquets , pedro etc who will stepping up into guaranteed first team places
As long spain system is there nothing will beat them .
Germany will have same old problem of choking in semi's or in final for how long we have seen this , 2002 against brazil , in 2006 then in 2010 .
No can rule out brazil in there homeland , in home soil they do have players who can create some blistering performances , the only problem is those talented kids like ganso , hector , neymar havent tasted European football it could benefit them as will it can go against them as well if they fail in Europeans leagues
Argentina has always been my fav , but they have always the same old problem , no good defenders and there keepers always sucks
England is doomed cant see them winning any thing until they host something
France wasted opportunity to test there young players for longer period they hardly came as 10 min subs , and defenders at french team no where good enough to handle the big guns .
Dutch need good CB , while players from apart ajax have stepped up some good CDM and striker like Strootman of PSV and LuuK De jong of fc tewente
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even if old guns xavi , puyol , villa will be gone there are gonna be still players like thiago , alba (already) & strikers are plenty coming on , plus barca youth academy is still there it will be producing backups for the upcoming players like fab , busquets , pedro etc who will stepping up into guaranteed first team places
As long spain system is there nothing will beat them .
Germany will have same old problem of choking in semi's or in final for how long we have seen this , 2002 against brazil , in 2006 then in 2010 .
No can rule out brazil in there homeland , in home soil they do have players who can create some blistering performances , the only problem is those talented kids like ganso , hector , neymar havent tasted European football it could benefit them as will it can go against them as well if they fail in Europeans leagues
Argentina has always been my fav , but they have always the same old problem , no good defenders and there keepers always sucks
England is doomed cant see them winning any thing until they host something
France wasted opportunity to test there young players for longer period they hardly came as 10 min subs , and defenders at french team no where good enough to handle the big guns .
Dutch need good CB , while players from apart ajax have stepped up some good CDM and striker like Strootman of PSV and LuuK De jong of fc tewente
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two gerrad and johnson , steve instead of him ozil shuld be there , but i do agree with johnson position surprisingly he was good in euro
I wasn't taking the BBC 'guru' seriously. I was just posting a fact regarding Xavi, and I had to provide a source for the fact I posted.
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Better than Lahm? Better than Coentrao? Abate?
What?
Lol you don't need to bro! I'm more than convinced from Xavi.
We were messing around with your head.
Why so serious? [MENTION=22318]NighteySenpai[/MENTION] Lets put a smile on that face *clicks knife
[MENTION=801]cobby[/MENTION]: Glen Johnson was surprisingly good? Even Arbeloa had a better tournament than him, and you can ask [MENTION=11105]SEvolution[/MENTION] how I rate Arebloa.
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*Snorts* Look at your poker face!
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