ONZE D´OR AWARD | MESSI WINS HIS THIRD STRAIGHT

FC BARCELONA player LIONEL MESSI was awarded today his third consecutive "ONZE D´OR" award by the prestigious French Football Magazine "Onze Mondial". The magazine readers vote who they consider was the "Best Player " last season.  The magazine has been awarding this individual prize since 1976 & past winners have included Platini, Maradona, Zidane & Ronaldo (Brazilian).

What grabs my attention  is that the top players are all with SPANISH FOOTBALL Clubs, & that these type of prizes give clues on who may win the "FIFA Golden Ball". I don´t see Andres Iniesta o Iker Casillas. 

Lionel Messi

Final voting: 
1. Lionel Messi  (FC Barcelona) 47,45% of the votes
2. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)  27,95% 
3. Radamel Falcao (At Madrid ) 6,10%
4. Karim Benzema  (Real Madrid) 2,24% 
5. Xavi Hernández (FC Barcelona) 
6. Mesut Özil (Real Madrid) 1,38%

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FC BARCELONA: LIONEL MESSI WINS "ONZE D OR" AWARD 2008-2009

The France magazine “Onze Mondial” has prized FC BARCELONA
Argentine star LIONEL MESSI with its “ONZE D OR” for the "Best
European Football Player for 2008-09" according to this
magazine.


















This award sounds the beginning of the “Prize” season as France
Football & FIFA are soon to announce their “Golden Ball” & “World
Player” prizes respectively. Lionel Messi is hot favourite to pick
up both mentioned prizes, but there could be a “small probability”
of surprise as the Messi´s form has dropped in the last 3 months.
Having said this, it all points that LIONEL MESSI will be “crowned”
with the World’s Top Football Honours of which the “Onze D Or”
prize is just the beginning.

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12 SPANISH PLAYERS CANDIDATES FOR "ONZE" TOP 11 TEAM 2009 (FULL LIST)

The French Football Magazine “Onze” has made public the 57
candidates in which the public can vote to make up the “ideal”
11 Team for 2009, Best Player for 2009 & Best Coach 2009.

The notable news is that six REAL MADRID & up to 10
FC BARCELONA players are included in the list, including
Guardiola as “Best Coach”. The number of Spanish born players
amount to an impressive 12 players.

Voting is open till the 15th of Nov on http://onzedor.football.fr.
See the full list below with Spanish players in black & those
based/playing in the Spanish League indicated as well.

GOALKEEPERS:
Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), Shay Given (Manchester City), Julio César (Inter de Milán),Edwin Van der Sar (Manchester United), Víctor Valdés (Barcelona)

RIGHT BACKS:
José Bosingwa (Chelsea), Dani Alves (Barcelona), Douglas Maicon (Inter de Milán), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Bacary Sagna (Arsenal)

LEFT BACKS:
Aly Cissokho (Olympique de Lyon), Ashley Cole (Chelsea), Patrice Évra (Manchester United), Philipp Lahm (Bayern de Munich), Davide Santon (Inter de Milán)

CENTRAL DEFENDERS:
Jamie Carragher (Liverpool), Giorgio Chiellini (Inter de Milán), Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United), Juan (Roma), Kolo Touré (Manchester City), Lucio (Inter de Milán),Gerard Piqué (Barcelona ), Carles Puyos (Barcelona), John Terry (Chelsea), Nemanja Vidic (Manchester United)

DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDERS:
Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid), Michael Carrick (Manchester United), Lassana Diarra (Real Madrid), Michael Essien (Chelsea), Darren Fletcher (Manchester United), Javier Mascherano (Liverpool), Yaya Touré (Barcelona)

OFFENSIVE MIDFIELDERS:
Diego (Juventus), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Ryan Giggs (Manchester United), Yoann Gourcuff (Girondins de Burdeos), Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona), Frank Lampard (Chelsea), Zvjezdan Misimovic (Wolfsburgo), Franck Ribéry (Bayern de Munich), David Silva (Valencia), Xavi (Barcelona)

FORWARDS:
Sergio Agüero (Atlético de Madrid), Karim Benzema (Real Madrid), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid), Samuel Etoo (Inter de Milán), Fernando Torres (Liverpool), Diego Forlán (Atlético de Madrid) ,Grafite (Wolfsburgo), Thierry Henry (Barcelona), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Barcelona), Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Alexandre Pato (Milán), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), David Villa (Valencia)

Willing to give your Top 11 Team here?

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VOTING OPEN FOR "ONZE DE ORO": 9 SPANIARDS IN LIST

French Magazine "Onze Mondial" have put up their list of 52 candidates
so that their Internet readers can begin voting for the "Once De Oro"
( The Golden Eleven), The Best Player & Best Coach. There are 9
Spaniards in the list of candidates: Casillas, Ramos, Puyol, Senna, Cesc,
Silva, Xavi, Torres, & Villa.

The Magazine goes further & puts up its own choice of Golden 11
players as shown on the mash up photo above. As you can see they
consider Casillas, Xavi & Torres as part of the team.

Stay tuned for the final voting! Tweet

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