World Cup 2010 - Golden ball & Golden Boot

Uruguay striker Diego Forlan is the winner of the Golden Ball award as the Best Player of the World Cup 2010 after scoring five goals in seven matches during the tournament. Forlan was voted the most outstanding & excellent player of the World Cup by credited media after leading his team Uruguay to the semifinals.

Diego Forlan led Uruguay on a surprising run to the World Cup semifinals. Diego Martín Forlán Corazo (born 19 May 1979 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan footballer who currently plays for La Liga club Atlético Madrid and the Uruguayan national team, as a striker. He is the two-time winner of both the Pichichi Trophy and the European Golden Shoe.

Germany forward Thomas Mueller has been awarded the Golden Boot as the tournament's top scorer with five goals.Apart from Forlan, Spain's David Villa and Wesley Sneijder of the Netherlands also struck five times with only one assist, but Mueller received the award with three assists. Mueller helped Germany take third place with his five goals.

Thomas Müller (born 13 September 1989 in Weilheim) is a German international footballer who plays for Bayern Munich. Müller plays as a midfielder or forward, and has been deployed in a variety of attacking roles – as an attacking midfielder, second striker, or on either wing.

Uruguay placed the fourth position in World cup 2010 after losing 3-2 to Germany in the third-place playoff on Saturday. Spain Spain is now soccer's new world leader by defeating the Netherlands 1-0 to lift the title at Soccer City on Sunday night. Villa and Sneijder both failed to score in Sunday's final, won 1-0 by Spain.
Mueller, 20, was also named the Best Young Player of World Cup 2010. Iker Casillas of Spain received the Golden Glove award as the Top Goalkeeper of the Tournament. [thego,2010]

World Cup 2010 - Summary

Below is the article summary on a few remarkable points so far from the start up until the end of tournament.

Diego Forlan,the best uruguay player, has officially been named player of the tournament. He followed up a wonderful season with his club by helping his national team finish fourth in the World Cup. The striker was hands down the driving force behind the Uruguayan squad. Every time Uruguay needed some magic, it was Forlan who produced it. Even in the dying seconds of the third place playoff game when the rest of the team gave up, Forlan set up a beautiful strike which came off the post. Had that gone in, Forlan would have taken home the Golden boot along with the Golden ball.

Despite the fact that referees were highly criticized throughout the tournament, based on the few bad decisions that they made, they had generally been outstanding throughout. The games were made to flow, the referees didn’t get distracted by any simulation or dive and managed to get most of the big decisions right. While a number of big names failed to deliver at the tournament, the referees didn’t

The 2010 World Cup saw the rise of the youth from almost every country. Germany featured most of their under 21, and the World Cup winning squad Spain also had one of the youngest squads in the tournament. Thomas Muller who is only twenty one years old is taking home the golden boot award. This just proves that even with very little experience, the right mixture of talent and determination can take you far.

Ultimately the biggest winners of the tournament are none other than the Spanish squad. The Spanish lost their opening game against the Swiss which saw most people claim them to be over hyped. But Spain quickly recovered after that and started winning every game. Spain didn’t score the millions of goals that they were expected to score but in fact, did the exact opposite. Spain went on to win most of their matches by a score line of one goal to nil. This saw them set a new record of being the lowest scoring World Cup winners in the history of the tournament. It is impossible to say that Spain didn’t deserve to win, they always played positive football and didn’t fail to entertain at any moment. [bettor.com, 2010]