World Cup Awards

Sorry all for not posting for a while, always been meaning to, never did, general story!!
As the title suggests this is where I will post my personal awards, including my top 10 goals from the FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa (you have to give it it's full title sometime!). I won't make it too long.


AWARDS:

Player of the Tournament: Diego FORLAN - Had an excellent World Cup, and was the rightful winner of the golden ball I think it is. I'd love some comments for Man Utd fans about this, he really moves into a different gear when he pulls on the Uruguay shirt, which in my view is refreshing to see as so many players seem to care more about their club these days. Was also the player to get the best of the Jabulani and equalled the golden boot winner for goals, and all were well worth the watch. For me he deserved the golden boot as well, for the quality of his goals. He effectively carried a rather unknown Uruguayan team with a rather small national population.

Bright Spark: Alexis SANCHEZ - Obviously the likes of Ozil would fit here, but he got too much airtime, so I was looking for someone a little less high profile! Provided Chile with a real spark and invention, was always available down the right and beat man after man. Not to mention that he (like all the Chileans it has to be said) was full of running.

Team of the Tournament: Here I've picked 1 player from each nation (only 11 nations obviously) so an exercise for you is to see how many you know!!

GK: Villar
RB: Maicon
CB: Puyol
CB: Mokoena
LB: Coentrao
DM: Toure Yaya
RM: Sanchez
CAM: Ozil
LM: Sneijder
ST: Forlan
ST: Honda

Now for the big one........

GOAL OF THE TOURNAMENT:

10) Keisuke Honda - Denmark v JAPAN    Thursday 24th June
9) Luis Fabiano (1) - BRAZIL v Ivory Coast   Sunday 20th June
8) Diego Forlan - URUGUAY v Netherlands   Tuesday 6th July
7) Siphiwe Tshabalala - SOUTH AFRICA v Mexico   Friday 11th June
6) Diego Forlan (1) - South Africa v URUGUAY   Wednesday 16th June
5) Luis Suarez - URUGUAY v South Korea   Saturday 26th June
4) Diego Forlan - URUGUAY v Ghana   Friday 2nd July
3) Carlos Tevez - ARGENTINA v Mexico   Sunday 27th June
2) Maicon - BRAZIL v North Korea   Tuesday 15th June
1) Giovanni Van Bronckhorst - Uruguay v NETHERLANDS   Tuesday 6th July

Some great strikes there, I'll (try to) get round to posting a World Cup review at some point!