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Welbeck+chamakh-bedtner\torres=fred

Colombia 2-1 Brazil.That's it folks,octopus krasid has predicted.start placing your bets.

[quote author=cr7lomo.]James Rodriguez has also won 4 , get ur facts ryt barca fan[/quote]James has 3, but this award is meaningless and for popular players

Germany 2-0 France

Both teams are yet to lose a game in this tournament, coming out as group leaders in their respective groups.Germany defeated Algeria 2-1 in the round of 16 with goals from schurrle and ozil before djabou got a consolation, while France beat Nigeria 2-0.They have met in 25 previous matches, including 3 times in the FIFA World cup finals(1958 third place match:France 6-3 West Germany;1982 semi-finals:France 3-3 West Germany, West Germany won 5-4 on pens;1986 semi finals:France 0-2 West Germany)

All our history is gone.

The two teams have met on two previous matches, including in the 1982 FIFA World cup group stage won by Algeria 2-1.

algeria’s footballers have already made history in Brazil but for Lakhdar Belloumi there is one thing left to do now they have finally made it through the group stage for the first time. The telephone line between Brazil and algeria is crackling but the message is clear: “We must take revenge on the Germans.”

In algeria, it is impossible to look forward to today’s last-16 meeting without also looking back, and Belloumi is the ideal man to tell us why. He scored the winning goal when algeria beat West germany 2-1 at the 1982 World Cup – a famous victory which would have provided the springboard for the tournament debutants to become the first African team to reach the second phase but for one of the World Cup’s murkier episodes.

“We beat germany and Chile and if it hadn’t been for the Germans and Austrians cheating us we’d have reached the second round,” he says. Belloumi is referring to the shameless way West germany and Austria contrived a result in their final group game to send both through at the expense of an algeria who had defeated Chile in their third fixture 24 hours earlier.

When Horst Hrubesch scored for the Germans after 10 minutes in Gijon, the match was over as a meaningful contest, eventually leading Robert Seeger, commentating for Austria’s state broadcaster ORF, to advise his audience to switch off their TV sets. In those two-points-per-win days, the result meant the two European neighbours joined algeria on four points – and edged them out on goal difference. “That’s gone into the history books now and it was thanks to algeria that Fifa changed their rules,” Belloumi adds .“The last group matches are now played at the same time.”

YouTube footage of Belloumi’s decisive strike against germany suggests the 1982 algeria were a special team. They were a close-knit group, given the law forbidding any player under 27 from signing overseas, and there is an impressive speed and fluency about the five-man move which culminated with Belloumi sweeping a low cross past the German keeper Harald Schumacher.

It came just 60 seconds after Karl-Heinz Rummenigge had cancelled out an opening goal by Rabah Madjer, a future European Cup final matchwinner with Porto. L’Equipe described the pair as “Les Magnifiques” and their team as “Une Algérie de légende”.

“We beat them our way,” says Belloumi, then 23 and the reigning African Footballer of the Year. “It was a historic match. In the newspapers we’d been belittled before the game – one player said they were going to beat algeria easily, that they were going to dedicate the seventh goal to their wives and the eighth to their dogs. But on the pitch we were fighters.”

algeria had to wait 32 more years to see its footballers win again on the global stage. Hence the scale of the celebrations that have followed the Desert Foxes’ 4-2 group success over South Korea and subsequent draw with Russia. “Everybody is happy now because we’ve reached the second round,” says Belloumi. “Now there’s a new generation carrying the torch. We must go into the game against germany with a spirit of revenge.”

kudos to Enyeama.Hope he maintains his form.

Great news for Nigeria.

In 2010 sneijder won 5 trophies for inter and reached the world cup final but was not even nominated in the final three.So I don't think Ribery will win.Ronaldo is clear favourite.

I wanted Mikel to win, but I knew yaya would win because he deserved it.It's not about patriotism but about saying the truth.

I thought this thread was about the African nations championship.

This is Ronaldo's year.There is no stopping CR7.Not even blatter can stop him.My main concern is for the FIFpro world 11.

And Zlatan Ibrahimovic will win the puskas award for best goal.

Read this carefully and learn nerodenero.
[quote author=.]The formula is in the unit.If you want to calculate goals per game, then you take the number of goals and divide by the number of games.So someone who plays 150 games and scores 30 goals would have an efficiency of:
30 goals / 150 games = 0.3333
goals per game[/quote]Simple logic, that's why it is called goals(69) per(/) game(60) ratio.And that's how I got my ratios for CR7 and Messi.

Hope you have learnt something today.
CR7=69/60=1.15
Messi=45/46=0.98

nerodenero: Must you attach insult because you want to drive home your point. Two insult from two submissions{@the bolded above and below]!!! Na wa for you. Olodo buruku!!!
Goal per game for Ronaldo =
69 goals = 60 games
1 goal = x
x = 60/69 = 0.0869
Goal per game for Messi =
45 goals = 46 games
1 goal = x
x = 45/66 = 0.97

Guy, sorry for this ,but you are the dumb one here.That is not the way to calculate goal per game ratio.Google how to calculate goal per game ratio.How can somebody with 69 goals in 60 games have a 0.08 goal ratio.Even common sense will tell you that you are wrong.Even some of your calculation like the one bolded is still wrong.

Chanchit: Nice info, time to bet against Real madrid, its a win or draw for espanyol.

And too all madrid fans, no ballon d'or for CR7 o, since caf no gree pity Mikel, dnt xpect fifa to pity ur Cr7 o.

Judging from the criteria used by CAF, then Ronaldo will win the ballon d'or.It's not about pity, but about who has been the best for 2013.And that person is...






[size=24pt]CR7[/size]

nerodenero: 1. Ronaldo = 69 goals in 60 games for both Club and Country
2. Messi = 45 goals in 46 games for both Club and country
Do the mathematics.

Are you okay, which mathematics are you talking about?

Ronaldo's goal per game ratio= 1.15
Messi's goal per game ratio= 0.98

What else do you want to know?

OP, they still have 1 more round to go.

nerodenero: If FIFA goes by CAF's selection process of choosing Yaya, then, Messi wins it. Messi will win based on the fact that his individual performance outshines Ronaldo and Ribery who has won more trophies than the rest in 2013.

How did Messi outshine Ronaldo in 2013? You must have been watching the back of your television, because from what I know Ronaldo scored more goals(69) than Messi(45) and Ribery(23) combined.Now that's what I call individual brilliance.

Drogba was not in Africa's best 11, but was in top 3.How is that possible?

Tonight's award went as expected.Waiting for monday when CR7 wins the ballon d'or.

I said it before.Trophies don't determine who the best player is.Awards are given to the most outstanding footballers of that particular year.Just like Ronaldo will win on Monday.Fvck haters, Yaya deserves this.

Club of the year goes to Al ahly.

Yaya toure for APOY

auskenfine: What are you talking about self? Is it who play pass or who achieved most? Ahhhh na wa o.

Yes it is for the most outstanding player for a particular year just like the ballon d'or.That is why there is an award for the best national team for who achieved the most.Yaya for APOY.

OP, you must have been sleeping for weeks.
Btw, we are in 2014.

Messi will know how it feels to be 2nd best, starting from Monday.Then Ronaldo will outscore him this year.

Chelsea without Mikel is still chelsea,mancity without yaya is just city.Yaya is the man.

OP....

Mexico again.Didn't we play Mexico before the confederations cup

Let the best man win.