naijalodge: To me its Arjen Robben,shikena...messi scored against weak teams,Nigeria,iran and bosnia...against Holand,he was no where to be found,Arjen robben ruled the whole 120 minutes or so....

bykebyke:
People saying Muller deserves it do not know that Germany played dependant on one another...whereas Argentina simply heaped pressure on Messi!!

DebateNigeria: He doesn't. In my opinion he's not even in the tournament's top five with the likes of Muller (5 goals), James(6 goals), Klose (setting a new World Cup record and winning the cup), Arjen Robben and Gotze for his very last World Cup and most important goal in this World Cup.
I can go on and on.
Who deserves this award, to me it's James Rodriguess or MUller.

murimoney: those of u who are lamenting, lemme clear d air 4 ya. Golden ball is 4 best player of d tornament golden boot is 4 highest goal scorer. Messi was d driving force of argentina, whom still led them to d final, yes I know he didn't score any goals in d tornament. Robben played well but was a cheat all along, best diver lol. James rodriguez played his last worldcup game @ the quarter finals n he scored 6 goals which is d highest so he got his golden boot what else? Shurrle was always a subtitute, most of his goals were not vital, but his last asssist was n dat isn't enough. 4 me messi deserved it. #my opinion

ayorins:



so na because pressure dey ontop him.... e con deserve d award

scribe2000:

check the quoted statistics bro. each statistic has some points attached, and are weighed accordingly. FIFA then uses the points to determine the best. tell me who else beats those numbers. and yes, its all about this particular tournament.

fingard02k: NO oya go collect the award from him and give it to mikel

Nonsense people always hating on another man's success

OkikiOluwa1:
You are among those unrealistic Nija fans.
Hypertension ll not wound you

Ashantiking:

If that's the case then mueller should have it. He had more goals, more assist and he went the furthest. He won the damn cup.

hyuga:
Wait o... How messi carry argentina enter final? He was nowhere to be found after d grp stage .. Macherano is d best d team has so stop that messi carry sh!t . And I say james,robben or muller deserves it more

Amaechi5: everyone the talk muller,james,robben,just give messi free space like those dudes and see if e no go tear his opponet to pieces.Even though he didn't win but at least he reached the final and got a world cup medal.

Diction10nairal:
u get issues o....... last tym around twas messi dnt score in a world cup. now it is messi scored against lesser team. no be world cup?......#na wa 4una o

hyuga:
Wait o... How messi carry argentina enter final? He was nowhere to be found after d grp stage .. Macherano is d best d team has so stop that messi carry sh!t . And I say james,robben or muller deserves it more

ayorins:



wat of muller ...
5 goals
2 assist
2man of d matches

Debroslink:

Where was Masherano when Musa was pumping in d goals? Messi has 4 consecutive man of d match award. How many does those guys u mentioned have?

Messi carried Argentina. Case closed.

mamagee3: I was angry and then I read that Adidas were the sponsors. . .

Messi is their star player, he's the one who sells for them. . .I don't think they would have given it to someone else. This award is so biased .

That's like Nike sponsoring or giving out the golden ball, of course they will award it to ronaldo.

But we as neutrals know Muller should have won it

scribe2000:

Even on these, Messi still trumps him. What about chances created. Muller doesn't even come close on those counts.
And hey, someone just corrected me that Messi had 4 (not 3) man of the match performances. come on guys, give honour to whom it is due...

ranson: None other than the humble man who always enjoyed the mercy of god of soccer. Ottey dey there dey hate.

Humble ke

ayorins:



so na because pressure dey ontop him.... e con deserve d award

rozayx5: Messi haters
if not for Messi argentina would have been gone since group stage, he tried


and before people shout FIFA, the same fifa extended voting to favor cr7, so fifa is no messi lover
i should ask
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DID ronaldo deserve Golden clipper? [/size]

scribe2000:

Even on these, Messi still trumps him. What about chances created. Muller doesn't even come close on those counts.
And hey, someone just corrected me that Messi had 4 (not 3) man of the match performances. come on guys, give honour to whom it is due...

VIPERVENOM: ronaldo deserved it but we all know blatter was prepared to give it to messi until he foolishly opened his mouth to say he preferred messi to ronaldo which sparked outrage.

Obi411: Messi captained his team to the finals of the World Cup. Before now nobody gave Argentina the chance to even pass the quarter final stage. We saw what happened to Brazil after Neymar was ruled out due to the injury he suffered. The same fate might have met Argentina if he wasn't there. Those saying FIFA is licking the guy's ass: Is it not the same FIFA that extended voting last year for CR7 to win the Ballon D'or award? Even when it was obvious that Messi performed better. But I must confess: the negative criticisms abt Messi has invited an evil spirit to torment his football career. Chai! DiarisGod o!

diarisgod: Exactly amingo, we could have even been dumped out in the Group Stage had it been Messi was not in our squad. Not even with the low plays from Gonzalo and Sergio...