Football Champions

UEFA has announced tonight that FC BARCELONA & Spanish International ANDRES INIESTA is the winner of the "UEFA Best European Player" season 2011 - 2012. The Spaniard won ahead of team-mate Lionel Messi & Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo, to be awarded possibly Iniesta´s biggest individual prize to date.The players Euro 2012 performance was determinate as he won the MVP of that tournament & 

UEFA has announced the three final candidates for the "UEFA Best European Player of season 2011-2012" They are:

Cristiano Ronaldo ( Real Madrid CF )
Lionel Messi ( FC Barcelona )
Andres Iniesta ( FC Barcelona )


the rest in line are Pirlo (Juventus),Xavi Hernandez (FC Barcelona),Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), Drogba (ex-Chelsea FC), P.Cech (Chelsea FC), Falcao (At. Madrid) & Ozil (Real Madrid) ..

The talk about the "Golden Ball Award" candidates & favourites at this time of the year is obviously premature. However, it is inevitable after we have been blessed with the recently finished Euro 2012 tournament along with all the World star players on stage. 

In recent days, France Football has done its marketing strategy-tactic aimed at the Spanish Market, announcing that Spanish Goalkeeper &

Perhaps it is the moment to finally give the next FIFA World Player Award to FC Barcelona & Spanish International player ANDRES INIESTA. Many feel - myself included - that Iniesta should have been given the 2010 Fifa World Player Award instead of Lionel Messi after his great FIFA World Cup performance with winning goal included. The Spanish midfielder has been announced the 2012 Euro MVP player,

SPANISH SPORTS papers become creative during the Xmas Break as Football "stops" but the selling of papers continue. One inventive daily is Barcelona based "Sport" which comes up with interesting content, this case, an info-graph dedicated to FC BARCELONA crack ANDRES INIESTA.

The diagram is in Spanish but I believe it is intuitive enough for non-Spanish readers to get the gist.



Courtesy: MARC