" Germany´s captain Oliver KAHN became the first goalkeeper to win the adidas Golden Ball Award for a FIFA World Cup final competition. The 33-year old, whose heroic saves saw Germany through to the Final, obtained 25% of the votes cast by the media present at the third-place match in Daegu and the Final in Yokohama. "
votes in %
Oliver KAHN GER 147 25%
RONALDO BRA 126 21%
HONG Myung BO KOR 108 18%
RIVALDO BRA 93 16%
RONALDINHO BRA 54 9%
HASAN SAS TUR 26 4%
El Hadji DIOUF SEN 15 3%
ROBERTO CARLOS BRA 12 2%
Michael BALLACK GER 6 1%
Fernando HIERRO ESP 5 1%
592 100%
It surprised me, i was expecting to see Ronaldo or any striker..
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Jul-02-2002 09:54
PatMcGroin
lost
Registered: Sep 2001
Location: here? there?
how could he NOT win it???
his only 3 goals allowed in the tournament ties a record low set by the german goalie from 74 (i believe thats correct, not 100%)
no need to give kahn the thumbs down (the topic img) just cuz your brazilian team didn't win everything
Jul-02-2002 11:53
cyberia
born trancEaddict
Registered: Jan 2001
Location: floatin' across the universe
It's true that Khan played a hell of a tournament,but I donno it's stupid to give the golden ball to a keeper where there were sooo nice actions made by other players(not only brazil)
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Jul-02-2002 20:29
Dj_Zen
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Ibiza
Kahn derservs it!
seriously... The golden ball should go to players that had an awesome performance during the cup... Ronaldo should not win it... he scored goals.. but hes performance sure wasnt the best... and Kahn made the diference in the world cup.. amazing... very good goalie!!!!!!! and brazil scored 2 goals on germany cause he made a mistake...And im sure that if we didn't score that first goal.. things could have been alot diferent...
oh well...
just a though!!
Congrats to Kahn, and all the germans
Jul-03-2002 00:04
Lytchix
Retired TranceAddict
Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Paris, France
quote:
Originally posted by Xavier
Oliver Kahn deserves it.
I totally agree with that!
Jul-03-2002 06:22
Nadi
Not quite an addict
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Los Angeles, Californa,
quote:
Originally posted by Xavier
Oliver Kahn deserves it.
he sure as hell did, Germany would not have gotten nearly as far if they removed kahn and replaced him with a more "average" world cup calibur keeper.
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and brazil scored 2 goals on germany cause he made a mistake...And im sure that if we didn't score that first goal.. things could have been alot diferent...
