FIFA 2010:Grand Finale & Golden Awards
Yet another fabulous tournament came to end with sunday’s grand finale and soccer city witnessed a fine competition between Spain and Netherlands. It was suspense till 116th minute when Andres Iniesta scored the winning goal for spain. Till then the expectation was a penalty shoot out or even a sudden death as both Iker Casillas & Maarten Stekelenberg where doing perfect job. The game witnessed as much as 12 yellow cards and a red card as a result of 2 yellows to John Heitinga. If you would have watched the game you surely have felt the tension in the air and it produced 3 yellows card within first ten to fifteen minutes. The climax gave a feel like Spain was destined to win. Both teams missed a handfull of chances. Remarkable ones among them are Sergio Ramo’s header, Arjen Robbens’ was blocked by Casillas twice, Villa also lost a few chances. After the Spain squad kissed the cup, there came the golden fifa awards. Golden shoe, ball, glove where awarded to Thomas Muellar, Diego Forlan, Iker Casillas respectively. Muellar also got the Best Young player of the tournament award.
Golden shoe is given maximum number of goals in the tournament and it was a tight competition with Villa and Sneijder also with 5 goals. But 20 year old Muellar got an upper hand with his 3 assists in goals.Best young player award was almost sure for him as his performance helped the germans reach the semi-finals. Forlan was selected the outstanding player of the tournament by the media personnal and was given the golden ball. Iker Casillas guarded the Spanish net with just 2 flaws and thus managed the golden glove.
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