Ben Baggio Nyombi 3 hours ago · Edited I wonder why people get so much excited and forget to use their brains. What I am going to write here is not meant to demean the greatness of Christiano Ronaldo as a player but to put right what many people including football legends and analysts are getting wrong after his sumptuous performance in the World Cup playoff against Sweden. 1. Gary Linecker and Rio Ferdinand said the hat trick Ronaldo scored yesterday sealed it for the 2013 quest for the Ballon Dor. Some went to the extent of saying that if he doesnt win it this time then they will know that FIFA has a conspiracy against him. Even some Ugandan football analysts said the same. Where do you live not to know whats going on in the football world. Keep yourselves abreast please. Its the national team coaches, captains and one journalist from each FIFA member nation who cast votes for the award. And after the awards ceremony FIFA displays everything about who voted for who. You mean FIFA will tell Ugandas voting members Andy Mwesigwa, Micho and Frederick Musisi Kiyingi who to give their vote?!! Cheap talk. 2. Someone has written that because of yesterdays hattrick and the fact that Ronaldo equaled Pauletas goalscoring record, so he surpuses Figo and Eusebio as Portugals greatest players of all time. Some people should shut up if they dont know. Do you know the Eusebio you are talking about? We are talking about the player who catapulted Portugal to the third place at their first ever appearance at the ultimate soccer showpiece. Scored a hattrick at the World Cup finals. Not in a playoff against a lackluster Swedish team. 3. France came from a 2-0 first leg deficit to win 3-0 and qualify for the World Cup miraculously. Should we now say that Didier Deschampsside has a place in Frances greatest teams of alltime? So thats the same thing Ronaldo did. With him Portugal failed to make it out of the qualifying group that was topped by Russia and he found himself and his team knocking on the back door for an entry to Brazil 2014. I think that game helped him get another chance to prove his worth at the grand stage next year. I watched him with my naked eyes coil like a centipid at the last Word Cup against Spain where it mattered most and in many other acid tests. 4. This reminds me, after Zidanes fabulous performance against France at the 2006 World Cup, onr Ugandan writer, the most vocal one wrote that we should forget about Maradona and Pele. Zizou was the greatest of all-time.
Posted on: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:21:27 +0000
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