Lionel Messi was named the 2009 FIFA World Player!!! Messi is the first Argentine player to win the award for the best player in the world.
After winning the Balon d'Or, it was expected that Messi would also win the world player award. Not only did Messi win the award, but he won by a landslide! After the vote from coaches and team captains from 147 national teams, Messi took the award with 1,073 points, followed by Cristiano Ronaldo with 352 points, Xavi (196), Kaka (190), and Iniesta (134).
I think this will be the first of many, and possibly consecutive, player of the year awards Messi will take home in the future. Cristiano Ronaldo is probably his main rival for the award in the years to come, but he's nowhere near the player Messi is. That's right, I said it!!!
And a bit of history was also made on Monday night. Marta was awarded the FIFA World Player trophy for the best female soccer player in the world, and this is the 4th consecutive time the 23 year-old Brazilian international has won the award! No other player in the history of soccer, male or female, has won this award 4 times, much less winning it for 4 straight years. She's so good and so much better than any other female player (and even some male players if you ask me), that you can bet she'll be the winner of this award for the next 5 years, at the very least!
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