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Outrage in Italy because Sneijder is alternated for Golden Ball
FIFA announced yesterday that the three chosen will compete for the Golden Ball 2010 is the Spanish Xavi and Iniesta and Lionel Messi, all players of FC Barcelona.

The nomination sparked outrage in Italy, which is understood as the Dutchman Wesley Sneijder short list, who plays for Inter Milan, which was great figure of his team last season and also had a big world with Holland.

“Obviously I’m very upset, but I can not do anything. All I ask you to say something, but the truth is that there is nothing I can say, “were the words of Sneijder, when asked by the Italian press after the news.

Another said that upset by this decision is captain of Inter, Javier Zanetti, who said as “absurd, that your partner has been left off the ballot.”

Inter President Massimo Moratti believes that it is “unfair that the award was granted to someone who has not had the same level of performance throughout the year. Sneijder had a phenomenal season and won everything he could to win at club level. ”

The truth is that it has been a year where there have been major players with the potential to take the trophy. Lionel Messi is considered by all the best in the world but not having a great world condemns him not to take the Golden Ball

Xavi and Iniesta are doing well to win the prize for some time, and I think they have had a turn, but we can not fail to recognize the great season of Sneijder and Milito at Inter, or the great world from Diego Forlan others
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Lionel Messi, the star of FC Barcelona and Argentina, making a short visit to Haiti, a country ravaged by a Jan. 12 earthquake that killed more than 250,000 dead and 1.5 million homeless including children, UNICEF said Thursday.

“Lionel Messi is goodwill ambassador of the United Nations Fund for Children, in which capacity he is in Haiti, told AFP Ms. Monier CIFOR’s communication department of the Haiti UNICEF.

During his brief stay in Haiti, the Argentinian international has visited the UNICEF office in Port-au-Prince where he met with Haitian children.

“This is strictly a visit as part of its mission with UNICEF, there is no formal meeting scheduled,” it was said that the department’s communications office of UNICEF.

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“He visited a camp that serves children moved near the airport in Port-au-Prince amid a tight security,” said a UN official contacted by telephone.

Many fans were trying to track the movement of the famous footballer.

Lionel Messi said that the current staffing of Barca do not have to prove “anything to anyone” in reference to the doubts created the environment for the elimination of copera Guardiola as the ‘Golden Ball’ claims that they want to “keep on winning things” . “We do not have to prove anything to anyone, not ourselves. We continue with the same mentality of last year, we continue to win things and I think we’ve shown,” said Messi told Barca TV.

On the five points that lead him to Madrid in the Primera Liga, Argentina believed to be a “significant advantage”. “It is an important advantage because they are already five points, but we also know that takes a lot of league, that this will be very long. It is all the second round and Real Madrid will still be there.” Moreover, Messi, who yesterday became the youngest player to reach 100 goals for Barcelona, stays with the “important goals.” “Beyond the great goals I stay with the major goals of the finals that I fill more beautiful,” he said.

“The truth is that, as in all the important things that have happened to me today I do not give too much weight or not I can tell. I live a quiet, normal and eager to do more things,” he said. One person that has helped him achieve this goal is Guardiola, for which the youth squad has only words of praise. “I always said that to me means a lot, every detail that has me and I am very grateful,” he said.

“He was obsessed with him Palop goal to”
“I have dreamed of Palop, but Cup soured me a bit. In Sevilla I won the game, because I got many side by side and yesterday I also had two or three. Make the goal was a liberation. I was not obsessed the goal itself but by the fact the goal to make Palop, since in the Cup did not succeed, “he said.

On the elimination copera, what most hurts the ’10 ‘is the “form” in which they fell. “In the second half we were totally superior and sometimes very clear we had to have been able to do one more goal,” he said. “It’s tough because we expected it. We were convinced that mount up and we would pass the qualifying round. It was a stick,” concluded the current top scorer in the league.