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Soccer Stars Pay a Price in March to Glory
New York Times LONDON — The World Cup ended a month ago, but Kaká and Arjen Robben still bear the pain. The Times's soccer blog has the world's game covered … Robben wins German best player award Robben voted Germany's top Footballer Bayern Munich star Robben voted Germany's top footballer |
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Soccer Stars Pay a Price in March to Glory – New York Times
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Bayern blast at Robben's World Cup injury
ESPN … to news that Arjen Robben will be sidelined for eight weeks as a result of rushing back from a hamstring injury to play for Holland at the World Cup. … Bayern Munich winger Arjen Robben set to miss first two months of the season … Robben blow angers Bayern More injury woe for hapless Robben |
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Bayern blast at Robben’s World Cup injury – ESPN
Heading into the final, when most votes were likely already tabulated, it was going to take a massive swing from either David Villa, Xavi, Wesley Sneijder or Arjen Robben – the nominated finalists – to steal the Golden Ball away from the tournament’s best player, Diego Forlan. Didn’t happen. Diego Forlan won the adidas Golden Ball from fourth place after almost carrying his team, like he’s done with Atletico Madrid, through on his back
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Diego Forlan Wins Adidas Golden Ball For Best Player
We posted the live stream of the Golden Ball nominees announcement earlier today, and you can go back to that post to see video of Jérôme Valcke list the 10 players in contention for the title of best player at World Cup 2010. Or… you can just read below where I’ve typed them into a good old fashioned list. The 10 nominees are: David Villa (Spain) Xavi (Spain) Andres Iniesta (Spain) Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands) Arjen Robben (Netherlands) Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany) Mesut Ozil (Germany) Diego Forlan (Uruguay) Asamoah Gyan (Ghana) Lionel Messi (Argentina) Is anyone else noticing a total absence of goalkeepers and defenders here
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World Cup Golden Ball Nominees
Simply put: players can’t get away with anything today.
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Oranje on World Cup target without neuroses of old
The Australian At this World Cup we have seen little of the infamous neuroses and not too much of the genius, either, but Arjen Robben, Wesley Sneijder and the rest of the … |
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Oranje on World Cup target without neuroses of old – The Australian