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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Summer Extravaganza - World Cup Mania

For the next 3 days, we will see facts on 3 of the prestigious awards presented by FIFA. We will today see some facts on the Golden Ball award, which is one of the prestigious awards presented at the FIFA World Cup.

This award was first given in 1982 as Golden, Silver and Bronze Ball. FIFA has also made a list of best players in the previous world cups. According to the list, Jose Nasazzi was the best player in the 1930 World Cup. The award is commercially termed "Adidas Golden Ball" and was presented to Zinedine Zidane of France in 2006. This was followed by Fabio Cannavaro and Andrea Pirlo. In 1982, Paolo Rossi of Spain was presented the first ever Golden Ball followed by Falcao of Brazil with the Silver Ball and Karl-Heinz of Germany with the Bronze Ball.

We will see interesting facts on the Golden Boot and All-star team in the remaining 2 days' time.

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