Why did Zidane get the Golden Ball?
 

Why does any player who disgraced his nation as well as put tarnish on his career receive the MVP award when he did nothing for his team ? :disgust

The Golden Ball? It's really called that?

Ghey.

What do you expect, it's soccer. :1orglaugh

the bLuE baLL

Because he's got balls, that's why.
And he was the best player of the world cup!

Materazzi is the guilty one!

He blew one of the FIFA execs

Because most ppl voted on HIM...(and this was before the final)

popular vote?

But he did do this:

http://www.moreniche.com/Ben/zidane.gif

the same reason bush was reelected

he was really best in this season!

It was voted for before he was sent off - as most people know by now.

Yea it was voted before the incident

He was the best, period. It would be wrong if he won the fair play prize.
But besides the Headbutt he was BY FAR the best player.

the penalty he scored in the first period was pure magic

It wasn't before the final.....

because hes so crazy

The way he played against Brazil, he deserved it.

He deserved the award. Nobody talks trash about your family and gets away with it, doesn't matter the time or place.

better then if any of the italian divers would have gotten it

Now you're really way stupid. He was France's most valuable player, and definitly the most valuable player for his team during the whole tournament.

In the last 3 of france game's, he scored the goals needed to win

Zidane overall was the BEST player in the tournament. Voting was done after regualtion time.

Because he gave the sport more exposure...by introducing fighting for bored North Americans..

AMEN :thumbsup

When will the soccer talk just end? :(

stoopid what he did
but he did play well.. I'll give him that

It`s not because of what happened in this worldcup, he received the Golden Ball because of his professional career as a futbol player!

voted before final

Actually, the Golden Ball is voted on the best player of the present World Cup. However, his career as been GOLDEN.

When it stops being the most popular sport in the world? Really though, Zidane is giving a press conference in about an hour to say what was said to him. As long as people can speculate it will continue.

Without him France wouldn't have gone to the WorldCup Finals

because he stomped that stupid italian! :thumbsup

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...266781,00.html

http://www.channel4.com/sport/footba...ia/jul12d.html

Zinedine Zidane could be stripped of his World Cup Golden Ball award, FIFA chief Joseph Blatter has stated.

The Frenchman pipped Fabio Cannavaro and Andrea Pirlo to the honour, but there is the possibility that FIFA could act to reverse the decision made by a panel of journalists after his head-butt on Marco Materazzi in the World Cup Final.

?I?ve ordered our disciplinary section to open an investigation regarding the incident,? Blatter told the Repubblica newspaper. ?We?ll await their findings before taking any action.

?The winner of that award is not decided by FIFA, but by an international commission of journalists.

?Saying that, FIFA?s executive committee has the power and the need to intervene when dealing with comportments which go against the ethics of sport.

?But we have to wait for the time being. Being innocent until being proved guilty is a sacred principle.?

Zidane shocked the footballing community with his gesture, one which Blatter has admitted was rather unexpected.

?It hurt me,? he continued. ?I?ve known Zidane for many years. Seeing him react like that was bad, for himself and for fair play.

?He was so distraught after the game that when the French officials told him to go and collect his medal, he replied by stating that he didn?t deserve a medal.?

The Italian newspaper also used the interview to ask Blatter why he wasn?t part of the ceremony in which the Azzurri were handed the World Cup trophy.

?I was convinced that the honour should have gone to my Vice-President and UEFA President Lennart Johansson,? he explained.

?The decision had already been taken after the quarter-finals when it became clear that the title would have gone to a European nation. I thought it was the right thing to do.?

Meanwhile, Zidane is set to speak publicly for the first time after his controversial red card on French television this evening.

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Just proves my point.Zadine deserves shit.Cannavaro was the Best player in the WC.

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/1986/19710438uh.jpg

i don't know what he didn't do for his team, but i know him from my 13.

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/1986/19710438uh.jpg

It kinda looks like a testicle too. Even you futball fans have to admit that.

Seriously.

:1orglaugh such a small one :1orglaugh

what the fuck is soccer? its football were talking here. Far from the game all your kids play brought together by fucking soccermoms.