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 Tuesday, July 11, 2006The 2006 World Cup Awards The awards for the 2006 World Cup have been announced and from the looks of the discussion taking place about Zidane's selection as Golden Ball, everyone agrees with the choices. I don’t either, so I have made my selections for the various awards. You’re welcome to do the same just as long as the players know that World Cup Blog will not be shipping them any trophies. Golden Ball Winner: Zinedine Zidane, France My Choice: Fabio Cannavaro, Italy. He was simply superb from start to finish this tournament. In a competition where no one player dominated, Cannavaro was in charge on a backline that propelled Italy to a championship. Forget Zidane’s meltdown in the final. He didn’t start the tournament strong and he really only had a couple of quality games. Most Entertaining Team Winner: Portugal My Choice: Portugal, watching Portugal play really entertained everyone with dives all around the ground, especially with Ronaldo around the corner they really deserved something from the prestigious World cup, if at all not the cup. Best Young Player Winner: Lukas Podolski, Germany My Choice: No one. None of the young guns particularly impressed me, including Podolski. I like the concept of this award, which was handed out for the first time this year, but the reality was that this was not a tournament where a whole lot of young players had a chance to shine. Best Keeper Winner: Gianluigi Buffon, Italy My Choice: Portugal’s Ricardo. While buffon had a good defense to support him, it was only Ricardo's save that took the Portugeese team to their second best ever performence in the finals. Golden Shoe Winner: Miroslav Klose, Germany My Choice: Klose did finish with the most goals so there is no disputing this one. I thought he had a wonderful tournament and will remember him just as much for his passing skills as I will for the five goals he scored. Team Fair Play Award Winner: Spain and Brazil My Choice: This award seems like more of a joke than anything else. Spain and Brazil might have been sporting teams, but this tournament will be remembered less for its fair play than for its unfair play and shoddy refereeing. FIFA can try to feel good about themselves by endlessly promoting fair play, but until they hold the teams and players to a higher level it will mean nothing. 
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