Wednesday, January 12, 2011

And in Soccer News

Lionel with his Trophy, the Ballon d’Or

FIFA Player of the Year award goes to: Lionel Messi

Argentina and Barcelona forward Lionel Messi won FIFA’s Ballon d’Or award on Monday as the world’s best player of 2010. Messi won the trophy for a second straight year, finishing ahead of Barcelona teammates Andres Iniesta and Xavi Hernandez.

“It’s a very special day for me,” Messi said

Also...

World rankings are out as of yesterday. Here they are according to FIFA:
The rankings are based on performances over the last four years (last month's positions in brackets):

1. (1) Spain
2. (2) Netherlands
3. (3) Germany
4. (4) Brazil
5. (5) Argentina
6. (6) England
7. (7) Uruguay
8. (8) Portugal
9. (10) Croatia
10. (9) Egypt
11. (11) Greece
12. (12) Norway
13. (13) Russia
14. (14) Italy
15. (15) Chile
16. (16) Ghana
17. (17) Slovenia
18. (18) United States
18. (18) France
20. (20) Slovakia

And in local news our own Philadelphia Union have a new sponsor and it's upsetting to say the least. Bimbo Bread (pronounced BEAM-BO) have labeled our players as well..Bimbo's. This sucks.



Just a reminder of cool our logo really is, you know..without that whole Bimbo thing...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bimbo Baggins Bread....LOL!! Only in their second year and they go and do this......Very Gay!! I thought the goalllllllll was to sell shirts? Who in their right mind would buy something so ugly?? Yes Omni you are correct the logo is awesome and genius but when you apply that it takes on a whole new look....UGHHHHHHHHH!!

Anonymous said...

Did he get his last name Messi because of his hair style?? LOL