Thursday, December 20, 2012

FIFA Pukas Award finalist revealed, here's one award that neither Messi nor Ronaldo can claim

Posted by wasaafrica at 4:25 AM

The top three nominees for the 2012 FIFA Puskás Award was recently revealed on the FIFA.com, and you get the chance to vote for your favorite from these three until 7 January 2013 - the day of the FIFA Ballon d'Or Gala. While Lionel Messi made the initial shortlist for the award, he however did not make the top 3 list, meet the top 3 nominees:

*Radamel FALCAO, 26, is a Colombian football striker, who currently plays for Atlético Madrid in La Liga and represents the Colombia national football team- Falco delivered an overhead kick in a friendly against America de Cali on 19 May 2012

*20-year-old NEYMAR whose full names are Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior is a Brazilian footballer who plays in the Brasileirão Série A for Santos and the Brazilian national team, mainly as a forward- On 7 March 2012 during the Copa Libertadores in the game between Santos and Internacional, last year’s Puskás winner Neymar, showed all of his pace, power and skill in this fine one-man goal.

*. Miroslav STOCH is a 23-year-old Slovak international who currently plays for Turkish side Fenerbahce- on March 3rd 2012, in a Turkish Super Lig against Genclerbirligi, Miroslav Stoch stood in space at the edge of the box and excellently hooked a shot into the top corner of the net.


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