World Player Of The Year Football Betting 2009
Placing an online wager on the outcome of the World Player of the Year football betting 2009 is becoming an annual pastime amongst internet football betting fans out there looking to add another market to their expanding virtual Sports Betting portfolio, make no mistake. Bursting onto the Football Betting scene as of 1991, World Player Of The Year Football Betting 2009 is set to be the biggest to date as awareness of the award grows within the online betting community, and its subsequent stature is acknowledged.
Historically, footballers bearing a Brazilian passport have perhaps unsurprisingly been the largest benefactors of the award that essentially recognises the planet's most precocious contemporary footballing talent; adjudged by football managers and international football team captains whose opinions count for a lot more than votes in the estimation of football's current crop of mercurially gifted players. Peering back into the vaults and the recipient of that first World Player of the Year Award was Germany midfield maestro, Lothar Matthaus who at the time was plying his club football trade for Inter Milan in Serie A. Setting a precedent that's still cast in stone today, and the two runners-up on that inaugural occasion were France and Marseille striker, Jean-Pierre Papin and England and Tottenham Hotspur goal-poacher extraordinaire, (and now BBC Match of the Day anchorman, gurning face of Walkers Crisps and Leicester's most famous son) Gary Lineker.
Torres, Rooney And Ronaldo In World Player Of The Year Football Betting 2009 Frame
Reigning FIFA World Player of the Year is Portugal's ex-Manchester United winger, Cristiano Ronaldo, whose now employed by Real Madrid as we all know, and other the past couple of seasons has duked it out with Argentina' and Barcelona's prodigiously gifted talent, Lionel Messi and Brazil and Real Madrid marksman, Kaka for the title. As you may have noted above, the World Player of the Year Award is the brainchild of world football's governing body, FIFA who orchestrate and administrate the main event's managing and stage the glittering finale that will sees the eventual crowning of the World Player of the Year.
The awards ceremony itself will be staged in Zurich, Switzerland on the 21st of December 2009, and will culminate with one of the following international footballer's being invited to the winners podium as initial nominees to receive the ultimate footballing accolade, whilst two more will be handed the runners-up prizes for being classed as nearly the World Player of the Year;
Germany and Chelsea midfielder, Michael Ballack
Italy and Juventus goalkeeper, Gianluigi Buffon
Spain and Real Madrid 'keeper, Iker Casillas
Portugal and Real Madrid winger, Cristiano Ronaldo
Brazil and Juventus attacking midfielder, Diego
Ivory Coast and Chelsea striker, Didier Drogba
Ghana and Chelsea midfielder, Michael Essien
Cameroon and Inter Milan forward, Samuel Eto'o
England and Liverpool midfielder, Steven Gerrard
France and Barcelona forward, Thierry Henry
Sweden and Barcelona marksman, Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Spain and Barcelona midfielder, Andres Iniesta
Brazil and Real Madrid forward, Kaka
England and Chelsea midfielder, Frank Lampard
Brazil and Sevilla hitman, Luis Fabiano
Argentina and Barcelona striker, Lionel Messi
Spain and Barcelona defender, Carles Puyol
France and Bayern Munich winger, Franck Ribery
England and Manchester United forward, Wayne Rooney
England and Chelsea defender, John Terry
Spain and Liverpool striker, Fernando Torres
Spain and Valencia striker, David Villa
Spain and Barcelona midfielder, Xavi
Online Betting Markets Point To Lionel Messi Bagging World Player Of The Year Football Title
The current World Player of the Year football betting 2009 markets make Lionel Messi the outright win favourite to lift the title, according to the revered likes of Stan James and fellow high profile internet bookies who have long opened virtual sports books on the subject. Andres Iniesta and Zlatan Ibrahimovic appear to be second favourites to land the coveted World Player of the Year award, although realistically miles behind the front runner whose effectively trading out on his own. Elsewhere Xavi and defending winner Cristiano Ronaldo are mentioned high up the betting order, whilst Fernando Torres and Wayne Rooney also figure in the shorter odds reckoning. Surprisingly Brazilian Kaka doesn't seem to get a look in at this juncture, yet as far as we're aware the nominations are still being made so the final trading prices could still alter dramatically between now and December; as ever, watch this World Player of the Year football betting 2009 space!
World Player Of The Year Award Recognises Current Best Footballers
Apart from the honour of turning out on a weekly basis in the colours of the football club you unswervingly supported since boyhood days (OK, it occasionally happens), lapping up the adulation of throngs of impressionable, muddy knee'd kids who don't know any better, having the freedom of movement (and bank balance) to pitch up at any of the following leisure-based institutions (delete as applicable) – casino, bookies, race course, lap-dancing, sorry, Gentleman's Club – whenever you see fit, laughing all the way to the Nat West (other high street banks are available in which to deposit vast swathes of your personal fortune with) as and when the mood suits you, swanning around in a different – yet equally ostentatious – sports car every day of the week and receiving more regular bonuses' than your average under-performing banker, the modern day football mega-star has another incentive to drag his otherwise miserable carcass from his lavish pit every day too. That's if he's got a modicum of ambition left after towing the party (Party! Party!) lifestyle. That's right, aiming for the top of his game.
He might have accumulated more winners medals than Michael Phelps does in an Olympic-size swimming pool, and represented his club and country at the highest level – bagging all the silverware there is to bag – in the process, yet there's one other motivator remaining for any professional footballer who stands head and shoulders above his contemporaries in just about every area of the field of play. Nominating and then winning the FIFA World Player of the Year Award must rank up there with sharing the Barclays Premier League, UEFA Champions League and quite possibly, FIFA World Cup Finals spoils with your esteemed team-mates when you sit rocking in your wooden chair next to the open fire with a tartan blanket protecting your legs, reflecting on your crammed mantle-piece.