...Tim Cahill! Well, it could be, since he was shortlisted for the prestigeous Ballon D'Or alongside Willy Sagnol, Florent Malouda, Vicente Medez (plays for PSV apparently), and others.
Stupid really. But got me thinking, so i had a little peak at some previous awards shortlists. The FIFA World Player of the Year is a good one, as it is voted for by international managers and captains. I had a little rummage and wasn't dissappointed. In order of ascending stupidity:
- In the 2005 voting, the Equitorial Guinea captain voted Jay Jay Okocha as the 3rd best player in the world
- In 2004 the manager of Palestine voted Milan Baros as the 3rd best player in the world.
- In 2003 the manager of Chinese Tapei voted Dado Prso as the 2nd best player in the world; his vote for 3rd went to some bloke called Takamtsu Daiki.
- In 2003 the manager of the Bahamas voted for Brad Friedel as the 3rd best player in the world
- In 2003 the the nominations by the Ghana coach went as follows: 1) Zinedine Zidane 2) Paul Freier 3) Ronaldo. Fuck knows who Paul Freir is but he must be pretty handy to be better than Ronaldo.
- In 2001 the Ukraine coach voted for 1970 World Cup hero Carlos Alberto in third.
- In 1997 the Costa Rica Coach voted for Paolo Wanchope in 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
I'm genuinely thinking of sending my Championship Manager CV to all of the above international FAs. They will clearly employ anyone.
5 comments:
2006 winner marlon harewood....
Paul Scharner
good shout jonny.
Paul Scharner is a quality player, and has made it into my metro fantasy league team. International awards sure to follow.
I thoroughly enjoued this read
People say i play like the great Paulo Wanchope. Is he going left,is he going right, he's so good even he doesn't know.
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