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This doctor needs our help. Assistance can be made be clicking on the link below. The link can be shared on various social media as well. God bless you all.

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Dr. Desmond "Tutu" Nwosu is a medical doctor, who was unfortunate to sustain a spinal cord injury when he got involved in a road traffic accident sometime in 2011. This was soon after his graduation from medical school, and happened just before he is yet to forge ahead in his career.

He was initially treated at the National Orthopedics Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria. The injuries left both his arms and legs paralyzed. He is presently at home with his parents and siblings in Enugu, Nigeria.

Tutu, as he is popularly called, is the first of six children, and was supposed to be the bread-winner of the family. He was meant to help train his younger ones, and look after his ageing and now-retired parents. Alas, the reverse is now the case, and the millions spent to fund him through medical school now appear to be in vain.

This young doctor can do nothing for himself, let alone help anyone else. On a daily basis, he fights depression, as well as his physical limitations. His bed sores require treatment. His family is stretched beyond limits. Funds to continue his required treatments are in short supply, as there is basically no steady source of funds to the family.

His family and close friends are doing their best, but this is not enough. He needs an urgent help!!!!!!

Funds realized from this campaign will be used, among other things, for the following:

1. Sustain his daily personal and medical needs;
2. Help employ and pay the bills for a trained Personal Care-giver(s);
3. Help acquire mobility gadgets like motorized wheelchair(s) and hoisting equipment(s);
4. Help acquire entertainment gadgets and electronics to help him through lonely and depressive periods;
5. Help him undergo trainings that might get him gainfully employed. He has expressed interest in taking up teaching position(s) in schools or any other place his skills can be useful in;
6. Possibly, go for further rehabilitation treatments. This can be in Nigeria or overseas. Presently, there are plans for a trip to India, but financing it is a big challenge;

The needs are numerous, and cannot all be listed here. This is even worse in a Nigerian Society, where there is no State-Sponsored welfare package for people with disabilities.

Only we, his friends and well-wishers can help alleviate this pain.

And yes, we can do it!!!

God bless you all as you contribute towards this noble course.

Please guys, click on the provided link to get more details. God bless.

medoyin:
Presently, what's his situation because these are old pics..If I may ask, is he paraplegic or tetraplegic.??

The latest picture, where is in a white t shirt was taken on December 18 2014. He is quadriplegic /tetraplegic from a cervical spine injury. In the latest picture, he was being propped up from behind. He cannot use his arms or legs.

NB: Please MOD, kindly move this to the right Section, hopefully the Front Page. I am not sure where to post it.

This doctor needs our help. Assistance can be made be clicking on the link below. The link can be shared on various social media as well. God bless you all.

http://www.gofundme.com/TutudesmondNwosu


Dr. Desmond "Tutu" Nwosu is a medical doctor, who was unfortunate to sustain a spinal cord injury when he got involved in a road traffic accident sometime in 2011. This was soon after his graduation from medical school, and happened just before he is yet to forge ahead in his career.

He was initially treated at the National Orthopedics Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria. The injuries left both his arms and legs paralyzed. He is presently at home with his parents and siblings in Enugu, Nigeria.

Tutu, as he is popularly called, is the first of six children, and was supposed to be the bread-winner of the family. He was meant to help train his younger ones, and look after his ageing and now-retired parents. Alas, the reverse is now the case, and the millions spent to fund him through medical school now appear to be in vain.

This young doctor can do nothing for himself, let alone help anyone else. On a daily basis, he fights depression, as well as his physical limitations. His bed sores require treatment. His family is stretched beyond limits. Funds to continue his required treatments are in short supply, as there is basically no steady source of funds to the family.

His family and close friends are doing their best, but this is not enough. He needs an urgent help!!!!!!

Funds realized from this campaign will be used, among other things, for the following:

1. Sustain his daily personal and medical needs;
2. Help employ and pay the bills for a trained Personal Care-giver(s);
3. Help acquire mobility gadgets like motorized wheelchair(s) and hoisting equipment(s);
4. Help acquire entertainment gadgets and electronics to help him through lonely and depressive periods;
5. Help him undergo trainings that might get him gainfully employed. He has expressed interest in taking up teaching position(s) in schools or any other place his skills can be useful in;
6. Possibly, go for further rehabilitation treatments. This can be in Nigeria or overseas. Presently, there are plans for a trip to India, but financing it is a big challenge;

The needs are numerous, and cannot all be listed here. This is even worse in a Nigerian Society, where there is no State-Sponsored welfare package for people with disabilities.

Only we, his friends and well-wishers can help alleviate this pain.

And yes, we can do it!!!

God bless you all as you contribute towards this noble course.

NB: Please MOD, kindly move this to the right Section. I am not sure where to post it.

This doctor needs our help. Assistance can be made be clicking on the link below. The link can be shared on various social media as well. God bless you all.

http://www.gofundme.com/TutudesmondNwosu


Dr. Desmond "Tutu" Nwosu is a medical doctor, who was unfortunate to sustain a spinal cord injury when he got involved in a road traffic accident sometime in 2011. This was soon after his graduation from medical school, and happened just before he is yet to forge ahead in his career.

He was initially treated at the National Orthopedics Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria. The injuries left both his arms and legs paralyzed. He is presently at home with his parents and siblings in Enugu, Nigeria.

Tutu, as he is popularly called, is the first of six children, and was supposed to be the bread-winner of the family. He was meant to help train his younger ones, and look after his ageing and now-retired parents. Alas, the reverse is now the case, and the millions spent to fund him through medical school now appear to be in vain.

This young doctor can do nothing for himself, let alone help anyone else. On a daily basis, he fights depression, as well as his physical limitations. His bed sores require treatment. His family is stretched beyond limits. Funds to continue his required treatments are in short supply, as there is basically no steady source of funds to the family.

His family and close friends are doing their best, but this is not enough. He needs an urgent help!!!!!!

Funds realized from this campaign will be used, among other things, for the following:

1. Sustain his daily personal and medical needs;
2. Help employ and pay the bills for a trained Personal Care-giver(s);
3. Help acquire mobility gadgets like motorized wheelchair(s) and hoisting equipment(s);
4. Help acquire entertainment gadgets and electronics to help him through lonely and depressive periods;
5. Help him undergo trainings that might get him gainfully employed. He has expressed interest in taking up teaching position(s) in schools or any other place his skills can be useful in;
6. Possibly, go for further rehabilitation treatments. This can be in Nigeria or overseas. Presently, there are plans for a trip to India, but financing it is a big challenge;

The needs are numerous, and cannot all be listed here. This is even worse in a Nigerian Society, where there is no State-Sponsored welfare package for people with disabilities.

Only we, his friends and well-wishers can help alleviate this pain.

And yes, we can do it!!!

God bless you all as you contribute towards this noble course.

ladymichael:
Alot of nigerians just took this for granted and "accepted it" as they feel theres nothing we can do
you clearly have shown that you are a confident, focused and patriotic citizen. I also have a feeling that you are straight forward and faithful to your love ones.
really admire you and pray you become someone influential in this country one day, Amen.

Well, well, well....Thanks for the warm compliment. I wish there is a way this company (and others like it) can be held accountable for all these things. We can only try.
And I say a big AMEN to the bolded. God bless you!

Very bland response from the company. They said a lot without making any point at all. I've queried them again, and will provide the response here . . . if it comes.

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Stubar:
I can't even see what is written on that pix!!! #ooouch

Hallo folks, after the thread on the Ebola T-shirt by a US company, I wrote the company in question, Zazzle, demanding explanation. They just replied, and below is their response (with a screen-shot attached). I have written back, demanding that the clarify in clear terms if the T-shirt has been withdrawn, and reminding them that Nigeria is now officially Ebola-free as confirmed by the WHO.

tHE zAZZLE RESPONSE

"Zazzle provides an open marketplace where user-generated content can be used to create a wide variety of products and apparel. By its very nature, the platform thrives on creativity and the opportunity for people to share their designs with the world. When a product is brought to our attention that violates our terms of service, we take swift action to remove it. We encourage the Zazzle community to use our platform to share their creativity, and we ask that they continue to maintain an open dialogue with us to ensure Zazzle features only the highest quality merchandise for our customers. Zazzle’s Acceptable Content Guidelines can be found here: http://help.zazzle.com/articles/support/ar143/"

Thanks for providing that link. There will protest posts on their FB Walls soon. Very dumb company, I dare say...

9JAgosurvive:
[b][size=20pt]Please there's been two hundred and six comments on this topic so far and over forty thousand views already,unfortunately Zazzle Apparel can not see NL -

So here's a better idea why not register your displeasure about this completely insensitive, wicked and outright foolishness by an American designer and company where they can see it and read it - I just did, and I wished them that - "for anyone who designed, sell and would buy this Tshirts and all the others ones on their website with Ebola written on it, may they find what they are looking for in multiple folds if they don't stop this foolishness".

GO to https://www.facebook.com/zazzle just imagine what forty or even a hundred thousand comments on their page can do ?

Let these guys know - they cant mock Nigeria or West Africans -even with Ebola, its a sad situation in those countries, yet we know this too will pass, it has already passed over Nigeria and by Gods grace and human efforts - the other countries in west africa still experiencing the virus, even including America will come out of it.[/size][/b]

timbros: So Maradona's comments were just his opinion? Your biased picture above is what? Just your own opinion too. And mind you, Zidane has more than one assist in 2006. I don't even want to go into all the flaws in that biased stat you posted there.

And by the way, did you see me mention Rodriguez in my posts? Check again and see who and who I think should have been the best player.

Even if Maradona is not the greatest match analyst, he is way above you. Maradona's opinion count in football matters, yours don't.

You don't expect to use one biased photoshopped picture to win an arguement. First of all make a research, get your stats right then list out the performances of Zidane, Forlan and Messing in their respective world cups without sentiments.

Just look at that picture again. Zidane and Forlan just goals and assists (which is so incorrect) then almighty Messi will get mentions in through pass, ball control , man of the match etc...Na wao for you ooo.

Enough of this pointless argument already!

Check the post above and quit crying over spilt milk.

yoji: It surprised FIFA president Sepp Blatter and Maradona claimed it was a marketing stunt, but now one of the men responsible for awarding Lionel Messi with the World Cup's Golden Ball has explained the decision. And it sounds pretty reasonable.The winner of the award was decided by FIFA's Technical Study Group and after days of debate and theorizing, former Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier, a member of the group, has explained the reasoning behind the choice. He told Le Monde (via ESPN):"I understand that it has surprised, because everyone only remembers the second half of Lionel Messi in the final. We, the commission, we look at all the games, and we judge that he was the most important man for his team. He went to the final, which is one of the conditions for the attribution of the trophy," the ex-Liverpool and Aston Villa boss explained."Moreover, Messi was more than decisive in the first four games. In the semifinal against the Netherlands, he took the first penalty and scored. The analysis also takes into account the fact he was the captain of a united team. A team that played well together. That's something we hadn't seen for a long time from Argentina. He was more than key in the squad and the way it was set up. For me, he fully deserves the Golden Ball given he took his team through to the final."Messi scored four goals in Argentina's first three matches and set up Angel Di Maria's winner in the round of 16. He played a quieter role in the later rounds, but Houllier argued that the Netherlands' Arjen Robben, widely regarded as a top candidate for the award, "didn't carry so much weight with the team." Houllier also reasoned that Colombia's James Rodriguez, who won the Golden Boot as the tournament's top scorer, didn't make it far enough to be considered (Colombia were eliminated by Brazil in the quarterfinals).Houllier did say that Di Maria would have been "a very serious contender" had he not suffered a thigh injury in the quarterfinals that ended his tournament. But Messi's closest competitor for the award was Germany's Thomas Muller, who scored five goals for the World Cup winners. The Frenchman believes that Messi had the better tournament on the whole and was more vital to Argentina's success than Muller was to Germany's, though.So that's the explanation/cover story for giving Messi the 2014 World Cup's Golden Boot award. Maradona will surely be revising his conspiracy theories shortly.
James shone cos he came in as an unknown. As soon as he announced his quality with the goal vs Uruguay, the Brazilians took note and marked and fouled him out of the tournament. So u can imagine what messi ha to cope with from the onset.
Robben had a similar record to messi in not scoring in his last 3 games but messi made it to the final while robben dove his way to the third place match. So what's the fuss about robben. Same way d dutch marked out messi, the argies marked out robben.
Muller is a victim of the perfection of the team he played for. He was just as useful as his other teammates and you get the impression German won have still won the world cup without him after all Marco reus didn't even make it. Most of his goals too came at the group stage as his only knock out phase goal came against a Brazil that even kheidera scored 2 against.
The nature of the German team makes it almost unfair to other members of the team to pick one person.

God bless you my dear. Even with this detailed explanation, haters will still argue. I'm already out of tge argument, but thought you deserve some kudos for this update. Cheers!

thegoodjoehunt: Maradona loves Messi and always called Messi the best. He even wants Messi at Bayern with Guardiola so that he can continue breaking records.
So do not think Maradona is for a second jealous of Messi.

thegoodjoehunt: [b]Was Messi the most rounded player? That meme of yours, picked stats that favored Messi. For instance, Messi did not have the highest amount of through passes in that World Cup and then the meme puts the most accurate though pass. What of Mascherano who had high tackles, interception and recovered balls?
Messi was not the creative players with he most tackles. Oscar was. Now they say the attacker with the most tackles. An attacker should be rated by the goals and assists he create, not tackles.
Messi did not have the most crosses in the World Cup, ROBben had the most crosses. So they say most chance created. Which was hyped up by Mess I taken lots of corners.
Don't you see fraud written all over this Golden ball of Messi?
Do it the usual away, select the most outstanding and breath taking player of the World Cup. Leave all this round about tricks. If they go the normal route, it would never have been Messi.
Why must the pattern of things be changed to favor Messi. Before, in a World Cup year, Either the Golden ball winner or a key member of the winning World Cup side takes the World Player of the year. Because of Messi, it was changed so he can win back to back world best titles.
Now brilliant mind blowing performance always wins the world cup. Because of Messi, we are having the most rounded player in different stats. I do not buy their fraud. Not even Messi's number one fan buys it.[/b]

thegoodjoehunt: [b]Was Messi the most rounded player? That meme of yours, picked stats that favored Messi. For instance, Messi did not have the highest amount of through passes in that World Cup and then the meme puts the most accurate though pass. What of Mascherano who had high tackles, interception and recovered balls?

Messi was not the creative players with he most tackles. Oscar was. Now they say the attacker with the most tackles. An attacker should be rated by the goals and assists he create, not tackles.

Messi did not have the most crosses in the World Cup, ROBben had the most crosses. So they say most chance created. Which was hyped up by Mess I taken lots of corners.


Don't you see fraud written all over this Golden ball of Messi?

Do it the usual away, select the most outstanding and breath taking player of the World Cup. Leave all this round about tricks. If they go the normal route, it would never have been Messi.

Why must the pattern of things be changed to favor Messi. Before, in a World Cup year, Either the Golden ball winner or a key member of the winning World Cup side takes the World Player of the year. Because of Messi, it was changed so he can win back to back world best titles.

Now brilliant mind blowing performance always wins the world cup. Because of Messi, we are having the most rounded player in different stats. I do not buy their fraud. Not even Messi's number one fan buys it.[/b]

You are bent on propagating this hate-fuelled argument. Okay. Please let's call it a day. Messi has his award...for life.
I'm outta here, and this time, its final.
So long...

timbros: Hatred? Sorry, how old are you?

So because I don't agree with you means I hate Messi? OK do you hate Muller or Robben? Because I think any of them should have taken the golden ball. Now if you disagree with me, then you have hatred for them.


This is Maradona's interview below, in case you haven't read it. If you think he is the sentimental type, pay close attention to the bolded part at the ending part of the article...



Remember that Aguero is his inlaw. If Maradona is sentimental, he will never make this comment.

Maradona says things exactly the way it is.

Wanna know my age? Just add 10 to yours and you will get mine.

Back to the topic, I have already addressed the issues raised on another of your friend's post. Here was my response. And please, I am tired of all this. Let's all take some deep breathes, and chill with something cold. No one here will convince another, but the facts on the pic above will be there to convince hate-free minds that the Golden Ball in WC 2014 went to the deserving winner.

"...Most people criticizing Messi's award only judge by focusing on one aspect. Putting Rodriguez as a deserving winner is only because he scored the most goals. He already has an award for that. But the golden ball is not for the highest scorer! Messi was the most rounded player in the WC.

And Maradona's comments were only his opinion. I believe he is the greatest player of all time (better than Pele), but he is not the greatest Match Analyst of all time. His views are purely that, His, and should not be quoted as an Authoritative one.
And he does not hate Messi, he only hates the idea of someone matching his own achievements, and unfortunately, Messi poses that threat.

Hope you rest now buddy. I've got other things to do..."
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thegoodjoehunt: First of all, Maradona is Messi's number one fan. He was screaming how great Messi will become in 2005. Maradona came himself to support Messi in that final game against Nigeria.

So do not think Maradona criticised the Golden ball because he hates Messi. That is a lie.

Also many people criticising the Golden ball award do not hate Messi. Messi is the most loved footballer on the planet. People are just against the way he was wrongly given an award. There was no need for that. Without a World Cup or a Golden ball from the World cup, Messi name would have still been great. The Golden ball to Messi was wrong.

Most people criticizing Messi's award only judge by focusing on one aspect. Putting Rodriguez as a deserving winner is only because he scored the most goals. He already has an award for that. But the golden ball is not for the highest scorer! Messi was the most rounded player in the WC.

And Maradona's comments were only his opinion. I believe he is the greatest player of all time (better than Pele), but he is not the greatest Match Analyst of all time. His views are purely that, His, and should not be quoted as an Authoritative one.
And he does not hate Messi, he only hates the idea of someone matching his own achievements, and unfortunately, Messi poses that threat.

Hope you rest now buddy. I've got other things to do...

thegoodjoehunt: Messi was fortunate to play with Barca when their mid fielders operated at a level of invincibility. Look at the International performance of his team mates, Two Euros and a World Cup.

Messi never performed at his club level on international grounds.

We are not comparing Zidane and Messi. We are comparing Zidane's World Cup performance in 2006 to Messi's World Cup performance in 2014.

You posted the meme above. That was not about Zidane and Medal's career. Messi did not operate on his Barca's peak level. Messi was not even as good as James Rodriguez or ROBben at the last World Cup.

Zidane was Magical in 2006. Messi was not.

You cannot, in all honesty and good conscience, tell me that Rodriguez and Robben were better than Messi at this last WC. On what Criteria? Messi had the most dribbles, created the most chances, had the most man-of-the-match performances, sored 4 and assisted 1. None of thise guys was well rounded in all these parameters.
You can say that Messi did not live up to his own very high standards and you may be right. But it does not mean the others were better.

And the pic above was not to compare Messi and Zidane or Forlan. It is to compare his award to others, which were awarded with much less achievements and yet no one talked. Even a below-par Messi in 2014 was better than those 2 guys up there in 2006 and 2010.

And hey, Messi was not fortunate to play with thise guys in Barca. Those guys WERE FORTUNATE TO PLAY WITH MESSI!!! He is the main man in Barca, and this is the FACT, take it or leave it.

I suggest you leave this argument. You can't win it. The facts on the pics above speak for themselves. Posting videos would not help. If you look for messi's videos (even from the WC alone), Nairaland would close down again from the number of uploadings alone.

Have some rest buddy.

timbros: Chai, sorry.

Thats all I can say.

If you, for a nano second, think your view in any football issue is valid than Maradona's, all I can tell you is sorry.

The sorry should be for yourself my dear, for failing to look beyond your hatred on a gifted footballer and instead dwelling on pure denial.

timbros: @bolded:

One question. Just one question for you.

What did Maradona (a member of that exclusive group) say about Messi winning the golden ball?

If you can't answer that, go and hide your face in shame.

First tell me what Maradona has to say about Pele, or what Pele himself has said about Maradona. Nothing very complimentary. Truth is, members of that club don't love one another and would like no one else to join. It's human nature, and Maradona's comments on Messi simply reflect this. But the rest of world know the truth.

timbros: Why are you showing OP all those clips? I gave him a homework and here you are giving him all the expos.
Let him do the research and come back here and correct that rubbish he posted above.

thegoodjoehunt: It is not most goals Forlan and Rodriguez did. There was magic in their goals. Forlan's goals were jaw dropping. Watch this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuPb0Q-8cZc
James Rodriguez was the most amazing player at the World Cup. Watch his goals here and tell me Messi was better even after playing two extra games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLex5Xnr9ds
Note James Rodriguez was not only the highest goal scorer. He had two assists and Three man of the match performances.

thegoodjoehunt: Watch these and comment if Messi's World Cup performances in 2014 World Cup can be compared to Zidane in 2006.
Zidane vs Spain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvPCMgDPu70
Zidane vs Portugal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7BYZrIpFL0
Zidane vs Brazil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNxDze0Ggag

thegoodjoehunt: Are you minding this funny people. I guess he did not watch Zidane in 2006 World Cup, if not he would not post this nonsense. Zidane killed a Brazilian side that were the defending Champions and had Super talents that make you wonder how Brazil could have all those kind of players in one team.

Ronaldo Da Lima, Kaka, Robinho, Ronaldinho, Adriano, Gilberto Silva, Roberto Carlos, Ze Roberto, Cicinho, Juan etc

Zidane destroyed them. Zidane personally destroyed the young up and coming Tiki Taka side of Spain. His amazing display against Portugal with Figo and co. was classic. These were knock out games. Games Messi disappeared and flopped in.

I give up on all of you guys. You are now comparing Zidane to Messi?
When Messi is being compared to Pele and Maradona, you guys are dragging Zidane into it, with funny clips to back up things. Funny!
Has anyone ever heard of the same guys in the same sentence with Zidane? Zidane belongs to the rest of the "good footballers", but not to that exclusive group of Maradona, Pele, and maybe (WHEN he wins the world cup), MESSI.

For now, I give up on you guys. No need continuing this argument. Hate Messi all you can...He remains the best thing that happened to football in the past 25 years!

And yes, he still has his golden ball from a world cup...and a well deserved one at that!!! Haters can go and...

And hey, he is not done yet, Expect more laurels to come his way. Just watch and see.

I'm off this argument. Enjoy your hatred on the little genius guys...

acenazt: Stoooo Peeeeed OP. How on earth will you compare zidane and messi? SMH Zidane Single Handedly Destroyed one of The Best Brazilian side I have Known to Qualify his Nation for the World Cup Final. And even at the Final he was a thorn in Italy's flesh until Materazzi found a way to Mess things up for one of the Greatest Footballers in history. Messi Just don't deserve that golden ball Rodriguez did far more better.

Silly comment. Very! !
Pundits are only waiting for Mess to win the world cup before they elevate him to the elite level occupied by Pele and Maradona, and you are here talking about Zidane.
And Apart from those 6 goals, what else did Rodriguez do? Your hate won't let you acknowledge the obvious!

thegoodjoehunt: Which one is most accurate through balls? Is that not a joke?

Most completed dribbles, give Jay Jay all the Golden balls.

So in your mind, the only stats that count are goals scored and assists. Why then did Zidane and Forlan win the golden balls in those world cups, since they were not the best on those terms. The best in the tournament is judged by all those criteria you are trying to rubbish. Come off it bro. Allow the little genius space to rest. He did not create himself.

thegoodjoehunt: Funny people. You guys find an excuse to justify Messi.s award. Most interception as an attacker.

You guys did not watch 2006 World Cup to see what Zidane did. Every one knew Zidane was clearly the best player.

Forlan was amazing. Messi did not stand out at the World cup. Now you guys search for stats to claim for Messi injustice award. Try digging Mascherano or Robben stats, you will see they did more than Messi.

So even with glaring facts, your bias against Messi still can't let you face reality. Imagine it was Messi that got a red card in the final with the same stats as Zidane and still got the golden ball?

Please look at the picture below and tell me why Messi doesn't deserve the golden ball. Zidane and Forlan did much less. Yet no one complained.

The pic below shows that Messi is just being hated.

sexyexcalibur: chances created as wat... Messiah had just 1 assist dz tournament... Rodriguez had 5

Chances created is different from goal assists. Goal assists are only those created chances that were actually scored by other people. FIFA considers all of these, particularly on close-call situations like in this world cup.

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

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...

ayorins: no one is looking at anyone game..... we are talking of performance in the tornament..... so u mean dre was no oda player dat played more than him in d tornament?

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.

crixtex: By statistics top 10
pele
muller
eusebio
messi
cristiano
ronaldo 9
By gift
Maradona
ronaldinho
pele
ronaldo9
Messi
Zidane
Cristiano
cruyff

where did u get this from. baseless...

thegoodjoehunt: The question is what was the criteria for given Messi? If Romero was given, we would know because he conceded the least number of goals. If James Rodriguez, we would say his high goal tally and best goal of the World Cup. If Mueller, we would say his high goal tally and three assists. If Neuter, best keeper of the world cup.

Why Messi? What was the criteria?

And here is the criteria as to why Messi was picked:
He created 23 chances (the tournament-high), scored 4 goals, gave one assist and produced 3 back-to-back Man-of-the-Match performances. None of the other contenders matched this.
And all these with over 7 billion pairs of eyes (from friends and foes alike) trained on him. Yes, the entire world was watching. The pressure on that young man was enormous!!!

Yes, Messi deserves it, and here are the reasons why:

He created 23 chances (the tournament-high);
scored 4 goals;
gave one assist;
and produced 3 back-to-back Man-of-the-Match performances.

None of the other contenders matched this.

And all these with over 7 billion pairs of eyes (from friends and foes alike) trained on him. Yes, the entire world was watching. The pressure on that young man was enormous!!!

crixtex: Guy... sentimental ratings... pele is berra than maradona... he is d highest goal scorer ever... ronaldo9 is berra than messi...

Pele might be the highest goal scorer, but that does not make him the greatest. Maradona is much more gifted. Have you ever watched him...the ease and flair in Maradona's style is second to none. Please don't even try argue about this, its a no-contest!!!

Very informative facts on Nigeria, I dare say...