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Here’s a good article from World Cup Soccer – South Africa 2010 about “World Cup Best Young Player Shortlist” .

As well as the shortlist for Best Player at World Cup 2010, FIFA today announced an even shorter shortlist for Best Young Player. The deal with the best young player nominees is that they have to have been born either on or after January 1st 1989, which puts the upper age limit for this honour at [thinks...] about 21 and a half years old.

The FIFA technical study group announced just three names for consideration, and those names (and the reasoning for theor selection according to FIFA) are as follows…

Thomas Mueller (GER): Thomas Mueller’s rapid rise through the senior football ranks has been nothing short of remarkable. A fringe player with his club, Bayern Munich, just two seasons ago, and with a first international cap coming only in March of this year (presciently, a friendly against Argentina), the 20-year-old striker has captured the imagination of fans everywhere with his pulsating approach play and vital goals (4) and assists (3).

Giovani Dos Santos (MEX): Still only 21, Giovani Dos Santos is one of the most famous faces in the Mexico squad. “Gio”, who played much of the most recent club season on loan to Turkish side Galatasaray, burst on to the scene aged 16 when he showed prodigious technique and vision in helping Mexico to victory in the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Peru in 2005. The super-nimble young forward has become a key cog in the attractive Tricolor team and looks sure to be around for years to come.

Andre Ayew (GHA): The son of Black Stars legend Abedi Pele, ”Dede” Ayew is used to living his young life in the footballing spotlight and he has handled the attention with great poise. He already became a world champion with the U-20s in Ghana last year. As an attacking midfielder, Ayew has become an important part of Ghana’s playing system with a successful pass rate of 85 per cent.

I was really pleased to see Ayew do so well, mostly because I love it when players of famous fathers manage to earn respect on their own terms. Dos Santos was exciting every time he got the ball, with more than one of us (I think in one the Mexico liveblogs) noting his physical and playing similarities to the 2005 era Ronaldinho. Headband and everything. Dos Santos’ performances were double impressive given the drama before the tournament involving his younger brother Jonathan’s exclusion from the Mexico squad.

Last but not least… Thomas Mueller. I half expected to see him on the list of Golden Ball nominees, but now expect him to take this award, if only because Mueller went deeper into the tournament than the other two players, scoring in the quarterfinal. I’d also argue that while Dos Santos and Ayew both looked exciting and promising and so on, Mueller’s output at World Cup 2010 (the 4 goals and 3 assists) was the real deal.

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World Cup Best Young Player Shortlist

Here’s a good post from Yahoo! News Search Results for Football

Florida State University football fans in the panhandle and south Florida along with south Georgia can look forward to stronger radio signals and increased coverage with the addition of three new stations to the Seminole ISP sports network.

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Football. Radio Coverage Expanded

Here’s a new article from FIFA.com – 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ – News

Germany midfielder Thomas Muller is in the running to be voted the Hyundai Best Young Player at South Africa 2010 – but has admitted winning the FIFA World Cup would have been a better prize.

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Muller eyes Best Young Player prize

Here’s a good post from FIFA.com – 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ – News

Netherlands winger Arjen Robben has said that he would be delighted to win ugly against Spain in the FIFA World Cup™ Final on Sunday.

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Robben happy to win ugly

Here’s a good post from FIFA.com – 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ – News

Gerardo Martino will stay on as coach of FIFA World Cup quarter-finalists Paraguay till after the Copa America next year.

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Martino to stay on till Copa America

Here’s an interesting post from World Cup Soccer – South Africa 2010 about “World Cup Golden Ball Nominees” .

We posted the live stream of the Golden Ball nominees announcement earlier today, and you can go back to that post to see video of Jérôme Valcke list the 10 players in contention for the title of best player at World Cup 2010.

Or… you can just read below where I’ve typed them into a good old fashioned list. The 10 nominees are:

David Villa (Spain)
Xavi (Spain)
Andres Iniesta (Spain)
Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands)
Arjen Robben (Netherlands)
Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany)
Mesut Ozil (Germany)
Diego Forlan (Uruguay)
Asamoah Gyan (Ghana)
Lionel Messi (Argentina)

Is anyone else noticing a total absence of goalkeepers and defenders here? Bastian Schweinsteiger is the closest thing on the list to a defensive midfielder, and even he’s not exactly that. So it’s basically all attackers. It’s almost as if the decisions about who to nominate for the adidas Golden Ball were in some way commercially influenced…

The list was chosen by FIFA’s technical committee and will now be voted on by accredited media. We’ll discover the winner after the final on July 11th. There’ll be a Golden Ball winner for best player, a Silver Ball for second best and a Bronze ball for third. Who would you vote for in your top three?

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World Cup Golden Ball Nominees

Here’s a good post from World Cup Soccer – South Africa 2010 about “UAE Has The Right Idea, Declares A Fatwa On The Vuvuzela” .

The vuvuzela has become almost tolerable throughout the World Cup as our worries shift to the flight of the Jabulani, the suspect officiating and angry Germans trying to eat that adorable little octopus.

However, the Jabulani will not be following us back to the domestic and continental scenes, refereeing has always been suspect and Paul probably has better security than Angela Merkel at this point, with his upcoming world tour setting him up for life. The vuvuzela, however, will travel.

So the UAE is setting the right tone, declaring a fatwa the vuvuzela on the grounds that it could damage hearing. Hallelujah! I mean…

The horns that have blared at World Cup matches in South Africa make an unholy racket — according to a religious edict in the United Arab Emirates.

A fatwa by the UAE’s General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowments declares that the now-famous blast from the plastic vuvuzela is not permitted in the Gulf country if it exceeds 100 decibels — about the sound of a passing train.

It says the typical vuvuzela blast is up to 127 decibels.

Hopefully this ruling will pass along to the rest of the world and the mere holding of a vuvuzela will result in a slow and painful death by Diego Forlan free kicks.

And the first to test these methods of execution should be the guy in the photo above, who created a diamond-encrusted vuvuzela which was picked up for a mere €17,000. Because that’s what the world needs – a luxury line of vuvuzelae which are thus acceptable at social gatherings simply because they wear diamonds. Kind of like Paris Hilton.

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UAE Has The Right Idea, Declares A Fatwa On The Vuvuzela

Here’s an interesting article from Yahoo! News Search Results for Football

Football Mundial Feltham & Hampton Monday six-a-side League week six results:

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Football Mundial Monday results

Here’s a new article from FIFA.com – 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ – News

While their campaign may be over, Germany will look back at their time in South Africa knowing that not only has it been a great party, but they have passed on the baton of hosting a great tournament to South Africa.

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Lessons from 2006

Here’s an interesting article from World Cup Soccer – South Africa 2010 about “Paul The Octopus Gives The Final Order: Get Ready For A Spanish Celebration.” .

Well, no need to actually play out this World Cup final business – Paul the Octopus has spoken, and it’s going to be a Spanish fiesta come Sunday evening. Six for six in the World Cup now, this is the first game, I believe, where he’s chosen between two non-German teams, so perhaps his powers do not extend beyond one-half Jogi & Friends, one-half evil opposition. (Unlikely – the thing’s a soothsayer proper.)

And has anyone posed the theory that Paul isn’t psychic, but simply tremendously tactically astute? He must be brilliant on a chalkboard with eight arms at his service.

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Paul The Octopus Gives The Final Order: Get Ready For A Spanish Celebration.