After 62 matches, I think it's the time to nominate, and choose the best team, player, goal scorer, etc...

1. Dream Team (11 + 7)
2. Best Player
3. Best G.K.
4. B. Defender
5. B. Midfielder
6. B. Striker
7. B. Youth Player
8. B. Manager
9. B. Referee
10. B. Goal
11. B. Fans
12. B. Stadium



Mine are:

Dream Team
CASILLAS (G.K.)

RAMOS(RB) PUYOL(CD) DA SILVE(CD) LAHM(LB)

SCHWEINSTEIGER(RM) XAVI(CM) SNEIJDER(CM) MUELLER(LM)

KLOSE(ST) VILLA(ST)

BENCH: NEUER(GK) - MERTESACKER(CD) - INIESTA(CM) - KUYT(LW) - ROBBEN(RW) - HIGUAIN(ST) - FORLAN(ST)


2. Best Player = SNEIJDER
3. Best G.K. = CASILLAS
4. B. Defender = PUYOL
5. B. Midfielder = XAVI
6. B. Striker = VILLA
7. B. Youth Player = MUELLER
8. B. Manager = DEL BOSQUE
9. B. Referee = Ravshan IRMATOV
10. B. Goal = VAN BRONCKHORST against URUGUAY
11. B. Fans = DUTCH .. the stadium is always Orange whenever Netherlands are playing
12. B. Stadium = Green Point Stadium - Soccer City Stadium

I'm going for


Forlán

Robben Sneidjer Müller

Schweinsteiger Xavi

Salcido Godin Puyol Lahm

Muslera


BENCH: Neuer- Villa - Kuyt - Ramos - Özil - Ayew - Honda


2. Best Player = Sneidjer
3. Best G.K. = Muslera
4. B. Defender = Godin
5. B. Midfielder = Sneidjer
6. B. Striker = Forlán
7. B. Youth Player = Müller
8. B. Manager = Löw
9. B. Referee = Nishimura
10. B. Goal = van Bronckhorst vs. Uruguay.
11. B. Fan = Paraguay's Larissa (if she doesn't strip then the Dutch, orange ftw!)
12. B. Stadium = Soccer City Stadium

Forlán Villa

Müller Sneijder Xavi Robben

Lahm Pique Puyol Maicon

Casillas


BENCH: Neuer - Suarez - Klose - Lugano - Özil - Schweinsteiger - Lucio


2. Best Player = Sneijder
3. Best G.K. = Casillas
4. B. Defender = Puyol
5. B. Midfielder = Sneijder
6. B. Striker = Villa
7. B. Youth Player = Müller
8. B. Manager = Del Bosque
9. B. Referee = Nishimura
10. B. Goal = Villa vs Honduras
11. B. Fans = Holland
12. B. Stadium = Soccer City Stadium

Not easy choices, could look a lot different on another day.

Villa (CF)

Müller (LM) Ozil (AM) Robben (RM)

Sneijder (CM) - Xavi (CM)


Salcido (LB) Ramos
Puyol (CB) - Lucio

Casillas



BENCH: - Higuain - Forlan - Kaka - Honda - Metersaker - Maicon - Neuer

2. Best Player - Villa
3. Best G.K. - casillas
4. B. Defender - ramos
5. B. Midfielder - ozil
6. B. Striker - villa
7. B. Youth Player - ozil
8. B. Manager - bosque
9. B. Referee - n/a
10. B. Goal - Ozil's goal from outside the box
11. B. Fans - Holland
12. B. Stadium - Soccer City

Villa -- Forlan

Ozil - Robben (RM)

Sneijder - Xavi


Salcido Ramos
Puyol - Pique

Muslera



BENCH: - Higuain - Suarez - Kaka - Honda - Lucio - Maicon - Neuer

2. Best Player - Sneijder
3. Best G.K. - Muslera
4. B. Defender - Puyol
5. B. Midfielder - Ozil
6. B. Striker - Villa
7. B. Youth Player - Ozil
8. B. Manager - Tabarez
9. B. Referee - n/a
10. B. Goal - Gio van Bronkhorst(first Netherlands goal vs. Uruguay ;))
11. B. Fans - Netherlands
12. B. Stadium - Green Point

Messi Villa

Sneijder Iniesta

Schweinsteiger Xavi

Gio Puyol Piqué Lahm

Casillas


BENCH: Neuer- Forlán - Busquets - Maicon - Müller - Gyan - Honda


2. Best Player = Messi
3. Best G.K. = Casillas
4. B. Defender = Piqué
5. B. Midfielder = Xavi
6. B. Striker = Villa
7. B. Youth Player = Müller
8. B. Manager = Löw
9. B. Referee = who cares
10. B. Goal = Dempsey vs England.
11. B. Fan = BzzzzzzzzzzzzZZzz
12. B. Stadium = Soccer City Stadium

Haven't been impresed for any LB.

2. Best Player = Messi


hmmmm

---------Forlán----Villa----------
------------Sneidjer-------------
---------------------------------
--Schweinsteiger-----Xavi--------
------------van Bommel----------
---------------------------------
Gio-----Puyol(c)----Lúcio----Lahm
---------------------------------
-------------Casillas-------------

BENCH: César, Klose, Busquets, Maicon, Messi, Kaka, Piqué



2. Best Player = Xavi
3. Best G.K. = Fernando Muslera
4. B. Defender = Puyol
5. B. Midfielder = Xavi
6. B. Striker = Klose
7. B. Youth Player = Müller
8. B. Manager = Bert van Marwijk
9. B. Referee = Koman Coulibaly
10. B. Goal = Puyol vs. Germany
11. B. Fan = Bafana Bafana
12. B. Stadium = Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium

hmmmm

Best so far, he generate 23412412 goal chances for his crappy team playing as CMF.

-------- Casillas ---------
Lahm -- Pique -- Puyol -- Salcido

---------Xavi ----- Sneijder ---
---------- Muller ---------------
Robben -------------- Ozill ----
------------- Villa -------------

BENCH: Skeletenburg, Klose, Forlan, Honda, Schweinsteiger, Dani Alves, Marquez

Best player - Xavi
Best GK - Casillas
Best defender - Pique
Best midfielder - Sneijder/Xavi
Best striker - Villa
Best youth player - Muller
Best manager - Del Bosque
Best referee - they all sucked.
Best goal - Gio vs. Uruguay
Best fan - Aztec guy
Best stadium - Loftus Versfeld Stadium

Best so far, he generate 23412412 goal chances for his crappy team playing as CMF.

Still.. He was part of the team that got thrashed 4-0 and couldn't do much about it..

Football is not Tennis, its a collective game, awards are invidivuals so i give mine to the greatest.

Dream Team:


Keepers: Neuer, Stekelenburg, Enyeama
Defenders: Lahm, Puyol, Carvalho, Mertesacker, Lucio, Maicon, Pique
Midfielders: Sneijder, Schweinsteiger, Xavi, Iniesta, Ozil, Muller, Robben, Busquets, Donovan
Forwards: Klose, Villa, Forlan, Gyan

That's the FIFA format for the dream team. I'm not sure what guys like Robben count as, but yeah.

Best player - Sneijder (had Germany reached the final, Schweini would get it)
Best GK - Neuer
Best defender - Mertesacker
Best midfielder - Schweinsteiger (deserves something)
Best striker - Villa (although it's a bit unfair because he played his best games on the wing)
Best youth player - Muller
Best manager - Low
Best referee - Haven't paid attention
Best goal - van Bronckhorst vs. Uruguay (recency effect)
Best fan - The hot one
Best stadium - Haven't paid attention

Best so far, he generate 23412412 goal chances for his crappy team playing as CMF.

Messi didn't score a single goal in 5 matches, although Argentina had played teams like Nigeria, Greece, Korea, & Mexico which do not have that solid defenses. A team having Higuain, Tevez, Aguero, Mascherano, Milito, and Romero is not crappy.

Anyway, you are free to choose whoever you think is the best .. these are your choices

2. Best Player = Messi


are you kidding man?

Messi didn't score a single goal in 5 matches, although Argentina had played teams like Nigeria, Greece, Korea, & Mexico which do not have that solid defenses. A team having Higuain, Tevez, Aguero, Mascherano, Milito, and Romero is not crappy.

Anyway, you are free to choose whoever you think is the best .. these are your choices

Goals are overrated, people its voting Puyol over Piqué just because he score a goal against Germany while Piqué its being one of most important players for Spain in terms of playmaking with his pinpoint passes and his elegancy with the ball, definitely Piquenbauer.

One of greatest things i've seen from this world cup its Messi ability to create goal chances from nothing playing 40 meters aways from the box.

All I saw was Messi trying to dribble past the entire opposition and losing the ball.

What did you expect? getafe goal everytime he takes the ball? 80% of argentina goals in this world cup come from messi.

lol Messi is far from that lineup. Wonderboy Chicharito Hernandez is closer than him.

What did you expect? getafe goal everytime he takes the ball? 80% of argentina goals in this world cup come from messi.

I was just explaining why he shouldn't be close to any awards for this world cup.

Well he may not be the player of the tournament...

But I see why Arnau picked him. He is the best player in the world atm, he and his team didn't have the best tournament, but I'd say he is still by far the best player in the game right now.

Well he may not be the player of the tournament...

But I see why Arnau picked him. He is the best player in the world atm, he and his team didn't have the best tournament, but I'd say he is still by far the best player in the game right now.

Arnau picked him because he's a Barcelona fan..

Well he may not be the player of the tournament...

But I see why Arnau picked him. He is the best player in the world atm, he and his team didn't have the best tournament, but I'd say he is still by far the best player in the game right now.

maybe the best in Barca,but need more character to be the best in the world...

hahaha

Oh ****, I don't know...

GK: Steklenberg
FBs: Lahm and Ramos
CDs: TBH, no one has stood out, and usually I'm very good at noticing these things
Mids: Xavi, Schweinsteiger, Sneijder, and Muller
STs: Forlan and Villa

Best Player: Sneijder or Villa (whoever wins)
Young Player: Muller
Goal: Van Bronkhorst
Manager: Low

1. Dream Team =
Casillas (G.K.)

Ramos(RB) Puyol(CD) Pique(CD) Van Bronckhorst(LB)

Robben(RM) Xavi(CM) Sneijder(CM) Mueller(LM)

Klose(ST) Villa(ST)



2. Best Player = Sneijder
3. Best G.K. = Casillas
4. B. Defender = Pique
5. B. Midfielder = Xavi
6. B. Striker = Villa
7. B. Youth Player = Mueller
8. B. Manager = Del Bosque
9. B. Referee = Ravshan Irmatov
10. B. Goal = Van Bronckhorst against Uruguay
11. B. Fans = Netherlands
12. B. Stadium = Soccer City Stadium

very surprised at Robben making into as many teams of the tournament ... he's played well, but he's hardly set the tournament alight ... I say this especially because Dirk Kuyt, who I have always been critical of due to his lack of skill, has been miles more important than Robben at this World Cup ... I realize that Arjen may well go and score a ridic goal on Sunday (I hope he does) and take the glory moment on merit, but so far, Kuyt comfortably outqualifies Robben for the team of the tournament ...

and, for all those voting the Dutch as the best supporters, I hope people haven't been duped by the very orange seats at Soccer City stadium ...

[QUOTE=Arnau;2904324]Goals are overrated, people its voting Puyol over Piqué just because he score a goal against Germany while Piqué its being one of most important players for Spain in terms of playmaking with his pinpoint passes and his elegancy with the ball, definitely Piquenbauer.

Exceptionally i have to agree with you, Pique is the by far best defender in this tournament. Impressed me already in the Barca-games i watched. Hes complete. He can get better than Puyol ever was.
P.S. Send him to Bayern, you can have Demichelis:innocent_smile_1:

Dream Team
Neuer (G.K.)

Maicon(RB) Pique(CD) Friedrich(CD) LAHM(LB)

Müller(RM) XAVI(CM) SNEIJDER(CM) Schweinsteiger(LM)

KLOSE(ST) VILLA(ST)

BENCH: Casillas(GK) - Coentrao(LB) - Özil(RM) - Honda(CM) - Dos Santos(LW) - Beausejour(RW) - Lugano(CD) - FORLAN(ST)


2. Best Player = SNEIJDER
3. Best G.K. = Neuer
4. B. Defender = Pique
5. B. Midfielder = XAVI
6. B. Striker = VILLA
7. B. Youth Player = MUELLER
8. B. Manager = DEL BOSQUE
9. B. Referee = none
10. B. Goal = VAN BRONCKHORST against URUGUAY
11. B. Fans = those without Vuvuzelas
12. B. Stadium = Green Point Stadium - Soccer City Stadium

1. Dream Team (11 + 7)

Tough to choose, still:


CASILLAS (GK)

MAICON(RB) PIQUE(CB) FRIEDRICH/PUYOL(CB) SALCIDO(LB)

OZIL(RAM) XAVI(CM) INIESTA(CM) ROBBEN(LAM)

FORLAN(ST) VILLA(ST)

BENCH: TZORVAS(GK) - PUYOL/FRIEDRICH(D) - CHICHARITO(M) - SNEIJDER(M) - KP BOATENG(M) - KLOSE(ST) - GYAN(ST)

2. Best Player: VILLA
3. Best GK: CASILLAS
4. B. Defender: PIQUE/MAICON
5. B. Midfielder: OZIL
6. B. Striker: VILLA
7. B. Youth Player: KP BOATENG
8. B. Manager: TABAREZ
9. B. Referee: IRMATOV
10. B. Goal: V. BRONCKHORST's
11. B. Fans: Paraguay (:innocent_smile_1:)
12. B. Stadium: PETER MOKABA

Forlan deserves a shout. He has been outstanding. In all honestly, it will be between sneijder villa and forlan. Sneijder hasnt really had a great WC..he scored a few lacklustre/dodgy goals but apart from that nothin outstanding. a toss up between villa and forlan for me.

Golden Ball nominees announced:

Diego Forlan (Uruguay)

Asamoah Gyan (Ghana)

Andres Iniesta (Spain)

Lionel Messi (Argentina)

Mesut Oezil (Germany)

Arjen Robben (Netherlands)

Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany)

Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands)

David Villa (Spain)

Xavi (Spain)

I don't think Asamoah Gyan, Lionel Messi, or Mesut Oezil deserve to be there

Mine are:

Dream Team
CASILLAS (G.K.)

LAHM(RB) PUYOL(CD) PIQUE(CD) GIO(LB)

SCHWEINSTEIGER(RM) XAVI(CM) SNEIJDER(CM) MUELLER(LM)

FORLAN(ST) VILLA(ST)

BENCH: NEUER(GK) - MERTESACKER(CD) - INIESTA(CM) - KUYT(LW) - ROBBEN(RW) - MESSI(ST) - KLOSE(ST)


2. Best Player = XAVI
3. Best G.K. = CASILLAS
4. B. Defender = PIQUE
5. B. Midfielder = XAVI
6. B. Striker = VILLA
7. B. Youth Player = MUELLER
8. B. Manager = LOW
9. B. Referee = --
10. B. Goal = Gio Van Bronckhorst against Uruguay and Villa against Honduras.
11. B. Fans = --
12. B. Stadium = Soccer City Stadium

---------Forlán----Villa----------
------------Sneidjer-------------
---------------------------------
--Schweinsteiger--Xavi--Robben--
---------------------------------
Gio-----Piqué----Lúcio(c)----Lahm
---------------------------------
-------------Casillas-------------

BENCH: César, Klose, Busquets, Maicon, Özil, Müller, Puyol

2. Best Player = Xavi
3. Best G.K. = Luis Suárez
4. B. Defender = Lúcio
5. B. Midfielder = Xavi
6. B. Striker = Klose
7. B. Youth Player = Müller
8. B. Manager = Joachim "Jogi" Löw
9. B. Referee = Couldn't care less
10. B. Goal = Van Bronkhorst Goal Against Uruguay
11. B. Fan = The young lady whose ass is in my sig. :)
12. B. Stadium = Durban Stadium

Golden Ball nominees announced:

Diego Forlan (Uruguay)

Asamoah Gyan (Ghana)

Andres Iniesta (Spain)

Lionel Messi (Argentina)

Mesut Oezil (Germany)

Arjen Robben (Netherlands)

Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany)

Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands)

David Villa (Spain)

Xavi (Spain)

I don't think Asamoah Gyan, Lionel Messi, or Mesut Oezil deserve to be there

WHAT THE ****!?!? THOMAS MULLER ANYONE!?!? Surely he deserves to be there a lot more than Robben. 5 goals, 3 assists, and the key to Germany's playing style isn't enough!? **** you FIFA.

I've been holding my tongue on this because let's be honest, in the last 10 months I've become a massive Robben fanboy, but he has NOT had a great tournament. First, he's played 3.5 games so far; that should take him out of the running immediately unless he has been so spectacular that he can make up for the lack of games. He has not. He doesn't deserve to be on the Best XI, he doesn't deserve to be on FIFA's Team of the Tournament, and he sure as **** doesn't deserve to be on the Golden Ball Finalist list.

Gyan, Messi, and Iniesta don't deserve to be there either, and Ozil is questionable.

Gyan, Messi, and Iniesta don't deserve to be there either, and Ozil is questionable.

My ass.

WHAT THE ****!?!? THOMAS MULLER ANYONE!?!? Surely he deserves to be there a lot more than Robben. 5 goals, 3 assists, and the key to Germany's playing style isn't enough!? **** you FIFA.

I've been holding my tongue on this because let's be honest, in the last 10 months I've become a massive Robben fanboy, but he has NOT had a great tournament. First, he's played 3.5 games so far; that should take him out of the running immediately unless he has been so spectacular that he can make up for the lack of games. He has not. He doesn't deserve to be on the Best XI, he doesn't deserve to be on FIFA's Team of the Tournament, and he sure as **** doesn't deserve to be on the Golden Ball Finalist list.

Gyan, Messi, and Iniesta don't deserve to be there either, and Ozil is questionable.

I think they might've deliberately put Muller out of this category because he's the favorite to win the young player award.
I also agree that Iniesta and Messi shouldn't be on the list and I feel they've been overrated in this tournament due to their top class performances in their club. Iniesta might be debatable but Messi wasn't even the best player on Argentina let alone to make it to the top 10. I'm not saying they had crap tournaments but I can think of at least 10 other players that had an even better tournament from which only some have made the list.
I think that Forlan, Villa, Schweinsteiger and Sneijder are the most serious contenders for the award.
For the young player award, it's between Ozil and Muller.

Who did better than Messi in Argentina out of curiosity?


In my opinion he carried a rather weak overall Argentinian team and when he wasn't a factor, they got killed.

Joe Hart
Boateng--K.Toure---Barry
De Jong
SWP-----Y.Toure----Weiss
David Silva
Tevez---Santa Cruz

But really...

Eduardo
Lahm---Puyol---Lugano---Gio v.Bronckhorst
Schweinsteiger---Xavi
Muller-------------------Sneijder
Villa---Forlan

Best young player shortlist: Muller, Giovani dos Santos and Andre Ayew. Needless to say, it will be nonsense if Muller doesn't take it. On the other two, they had to pick someone from Ghana I suppose - nevertheless, A. Ayew was beyond doubt the best Ghanaian anyway (far better than Gyan) and wouldn't look too unreasonable in a top 11. But Giovani... WTF!?

I guess they just had to pick someone known to a certain degree.

Muller is not in the list because hes in the young player category. I don't think you can qualify for both.

Anyway...I hope forlan wins it but i think it will be the player from the team that wins the world cup.

By the way...I thought andres iniesta has had a decent world cup. He was devastating for the past 2 matches.

My ass.

He didn't start to look good until the second half against Germany. That's the truth. Not his fault though, he's clearly injured.

KP Boateng was the best Ghanaian. He should be in the top young players.

So who wins the Golden Ball? I actually might cast my vote for Iker Casillas.

Forlán has won it, Müller wins young player and Golden boot. Great choices happy for both of them.

FORLAN WON THE GOLDEN BALL!!!!!! HOLY ****!!!! HOLY **** HOLY ****!!!!!! FIRST TIME A NON FINALIST BEST PLAYER ON EARTH!!!!!!

Thus completes the biggest comeback in the history of football.
Today Lineker said his performance was on par with Zidane, Maradona, Cryuff. He's an all time great now. :D!!!!

Well done to Forlan

hahahaha Cristiano Ronaldo . what a marketing joke. The real heart of the world cup. This time you couldn't hide it . Everyone on earth was screaming for this, it was a shock for FIFA , since he didnt even make the final .

What a performance for the ages. Literally "Maradona" in quality.

really happy for Mueller

---------Forlán----Villa----------
------------Sneidjer-------------
---------------------------------
--Schweinsteiger--D.Pérez--Robben--
---------------------------------
Fucile-----Piqué----Godín----Lahm
---------------------------------
-------------Casillas-------------

BENCH: J. César, Klose, Xavi, Maicon, Özil, Müller, Lucio
2. Best Player = Forlán
3. Best G.K. = Luis Suárez
4. B. Defender = Piqué
5. B. Midfielder = D.Pérez
6. B. Striker = Forlán
7. B. Youth Player = Müller
8. B. Manager = del Bosque
9. B. Referee = None, terrible level
10. B. Goal = Tevez against México
11. B. Fan = The paraguayan model, holy tits!
12. B. Stadium = Durban Stadium

1. My Dream Team


Dream Team
CASILLAS (G.K.)

RAMOS(RB) PIQUE(CD) LAHM(LB)

SCHWEINSTEIGER(RM) INIESTA(CM) FORLAN(CM) MULLER(LM)

MESSI (WCF)
ROBBEN(RW) VILLA(ST)

BENCH: NEUER(GK) - PUYOL(CD) - XAVI(CM) - KUYT(LW) - KLOSE(ST) - SNEIJDER(CM) - OZIL (AMF)

Note: Forlan is a striker, but he is included as CM coz he can play anywhere, he is the heart of the team.
Xavi and Iniesta are interchangable.
Messi may raise few questions, but undoubtedly he is the one who gave maximum pleasure to eyes.



2. Best Player = FORLAN
3. Best G.K. = CASILLAS
4. B. Defender = SERGIO RAMOS (better as a winger though !!!, otherwise Pique)
5. B. Midfielder = SCHWEINSTEIGER
6. B. Striker = VILLA (better as a left winger though)
7. B. Youth Player = MULLER
8. B. Manager = DEL BOSQUE
9. B. Referee = No comments, at least not the finals' one
10. B. Goal = VAN BRONCKHORST against URUGUAY/David Villa vs Chile/Diego Forlan vs Netherlands
11. B. Fans = DUTCH, and obviously a Paraguayan model.
12. B. Stadium = Soccer City Stadium

Forlan did much to his team and the play filled with quality he showed (Also some nice goals) deserves the award.
Adidas Golden glove award (Best goalkeeper) award goes to Casillas.

My First 11.

Fernando Muslera
Sergio Ramos-----Heitinga-----Puyol-----Gio
Khedira
Xavi
Jesús Navas---------------Thomas Müller
Sneijder
Forlan


Subs : Maarten Stekelenburg, Pique, Onyewu, Jérôme Boateng, Maicon, Özil, Tshabalala, Keisuke Honda, Fábio Coentrão, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Dirk Kuyt, David Villa, Gonzalo Higuaín