Monday 5 March 2012
Not so long ago there was an event held in Zurich where all European football awards for 2011 were given away. A lot of players and managers from the best clubs in Europe showed up at this excellent event. Before the awards, among internet fans free sports bet was distributed who will win and what prize. Some of them were also paid tips which could have been seen that so many sport fans put their interest in the awards.
Returning to the event, the Ballon d'Or for the 3rd time in a row was won by the phenomenon of today's football - Lionel Mesii. Cristiano Ronaldo took the second place (he was a winner of the prize in 2008 when he was still at Manchester United) and third place was given to the Messi’s club teammate Xavi (about best footballist read here). The award was presented by Brazilian striker Ronaldo.
Among other categories there were also honored for best coach category in 2011. There was no surprise and the prize was won by Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola leaving behind José Mourinho (Real Madrid) at the second and Sir Alex Ferguson (Manchester United) on the third place.
Players from the Spain were also crowned as the best starting XI in 2011 years where there were 5 players from Barcelona and 4 players from Real Madrid. The other two were the players from Manchester United: Vidic and Rooney.


The best starting XI in 2011 looked like this:
Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Vidic, Daniel Alves, Pique, Xabi Alonso, Cristiano Ronaldo, Xavi, Iniesta, Messi, Rooney.
As we can see no underdogs allowed.

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