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Today is the last day for voting lets all give Stephanie our votes wouldn't it be great if she won
http://www.fifa.com/ballon-dor/puskas-award/
I don't do twitter and facebook so it would be great if someone could jump all over this link and get it to go Viral
Last day is the day of the awards itself, the twelfth
Ok sorry my mistake the site I was on said last chance up until 7pm today
I voted!! (for Cahill - not really) I voted for Stephanie but I doubt she will win but you never know.
Don't be overly pessimistic, Tricky - remember it was only a disqualification that prevented mischievous Irish football fans from turning Ronnie O'Brien into Time Magazine's Man of the Century. So there's every chance that Stephanie could win this award (which she actually deserves - van Persie and Rodriguez's goals are good, but conventional - they just happened at the World Cup). So remember lads, vote early and vote often - you can do multiple votes, but not in the same computer session or on the same day, I thinkQuote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
if you use privacy mode, or incognito mode as its known on some browsers, you can vote as many times as you want!Quote:
Originally Posted by samhaydenjr
I threw together this vine to show how to use it on Chrome on Android - I'm presuming it's the same on iPhone/iPad: https://twitter.com/irish_abroad/sta...99752522637312
Video quality isn't great, but you can follow it
last day of voting today, not sure what time the cut off is, but the awards are tonight
Keep voting here: http://www.fifa.com/puskas
Ivan Yates on Stephanie Roche: It's tokenism because she is a woman. No way she deserves award, it's sham amateurism.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-30900537.html
I thought it was a fantastic goal in fairness. An understatement but you know what I mean. Take away her gender and the opposition, and the goal still deserves to be lauded because of her technique, awareness and glorious finish.
For a man with no shame and sense of decency, he'd be better off talking about what he knows best - running businesses into the ground.
And the goal was well taken. For an amateur player she was composed, balanced and it was sweetly struck. FIFA is the governing body of a number of football types for both genders, so it is right she is nominated.
It is explicitly stated in FIFA's Rules of Allocation that the level of championship in which the goal was scored is not relevant to the allocation of the award: http://resources.fifa.com/mm/documen...en_neutral.pdf
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Originally Posted by FIFA
Van Persie's goal isn't conventional at all. I've never seen a goal like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by samhaydenjr
Rodriguez' goal is "conventional", albeit brilliant.
Three great goals. FIFA deserve huge credit for instigating the competition; it's brilliant.
And I think Roche's goal sums up everything that's great about it - anyone can win.
Surprised at a politician not taking the populist view. Idiotic comments.
Henrik Larsson scored almost the exact same goal vs Bulgaria in Euro 2004 (goal is on 0:05)Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Wrong sport, ********.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
Yates, not you :o
I wouldn't agree with that. Larsson's is a brilliant diving header but it is conventional in a sense, albeit better than most. It's different to Van Persie's in the sense that the cross is coming at him from a far more favourable angle and the power is already generated for him, such is the quality of the ball whipped in. He basically just needs to focus on meeting the ball cleanly. What makes Van Persie's so difficult was that the ball was played long, high and almost floated from behind his back. I think he has a much more difficult task of keeping his eye on it and generating the elevation to put it over Casillas.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
I listen to Newstalk fairly regularly in the mornings. I don't mind Yates at all but it's clear that he hasn't an iota about football. He likes to talk about it anyway though and claims to be big Manchester City fan, but it's pretty obvious that he doesn't really care. Roche's nomination was always going to be open to this kind of begrudgery, but I think anybody who knocks her nomination just show themselves up as being ignorant to how difficult a skill it was that actually performed. It blows me away every time I watch it and would be a very worthy winner from the goals I have seen. It's the best of the three for me. I could imagine myself attempting the other two (in an astro situation :)) but there's no way I'd even be capable of attempting Roche's goal, just too many places where it would fall down.
Dunno how I'd forgotten that one!Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Still, far from "conventional".
Roche's is kind of like Pele in the 1958 World Cup final, but better in each element - the take down, the flick past the defender and the finish.
I'd have more of a problem with the winner being determined by a public vote, and would much prefer a panel to decide such things.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
Didn't Ronnie O'Brien win Time Magazine's Person of the Year?Quote:
Originally Posted by The Fly
He was leading a public poll for a while before Time removed him as joke candidates aren't allowed.
Rodriguez got it.