Sentences with phrase «golden ball»

And because decorating can be quite addictive, a few days later, I found myself carrying home small golden ball ornaments to decorate our little tree some more.

I bought the pine cones and golden ball mixes in the earlier picture, but I liked them just like this, so I left those off.

He's also been named on the shortlist for the World Football Golden Ball for the 2014 World Cup, where he starred for Brazil on home soil.

We didn't see much of Forlan this summer, but four years ago, the forward won the World Cup Golden Ball awarded for its best player.

BattleBlock Theater is a wacky puzzle platformer that'll have you smiling as you traverse through multiple levels, collecting gems, golden balls of yarn, all in an effort to save your fellow shipwrecked survivors and appease the audience.

Ever since former Manchester United striker Diego Forlan was voted Golden Ball winner for best player at the 2010 World Cup there have been calls from many quarters for Sir Alex Ferguson to bring the Uruguay hit man back to Old Trafford.

Arsenal made contact to sign the player after he won the Adidas golden ball at the FIFA U-17 World Cup last year.

FIFA have announced the ten man shortlist for the 2014 World Cup Golden Ball award, with Argentina superstar Lionel Messi and Brazil's stricken forward Neymar heading the list of potential winners.

But Messi ended up with Golden Ball (the best player in the tournament).

He had to fight off several challenges for the goalkeeper spot during his international career, including SV Hamburg's Uli Stein, who was eventually sent home from the 1986 World Cup Finals in frustration having been unable to dislodge Schumacher, who went on to finish second behind Diego Maradona in FIFA's Golden Ball vote to find the Player of the Tournament.

The Arsenal striker does fit into that category, having helped the Gunners to a second FA cup in a row and inspiring Chile to a first ever Copa America triumph, but I suspect that Alexis will not be picking up the giant golden ball this time.

Former Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas, Real Madrid's Toni Kroos and Man City's impressive youngster Kelechi Iheanacho are all former Golden Ball winners also, and Nwakali could prove to be the next big star to come out of the tournament.

And when the time comes to look back at his career, when a 45 - year - old Ronaldo signs off with a 50 - goal season and his 17th Golden Ball, this may go down as the second-most remarkable thing about his career.

Before leaving Minnesota, Ibarra was named in the NASL Best XI in both 2013 and 2014 and won the NASL Golden Ball and MVP awards in 2014.

««A great honour to receive my fourth golden ball,» said Ronaldo.

«It's an honour to receive compliments like this from such a big manager [Wenger] in world football,» Mahrez told reporters after winning the Algerian Golden Ball.

Imagine reclining by the pool or on the beach sipping a tropical cocktail concocted specially for you while watching that great golden ball slip languidly into the horizon.

My favourite involved rolling a large golden ball around a large circle which actually controlled the worlds day and night cycle, sheer brilliance.

Later levels require frequent retries, and often even the slightest misplay — such as wrongfully launching a blue orb into a mass of golden balls on the precipice of the hole — can spell certain doom.

With five players from champions Germany unsurprisingly making up half of this list, see below for more deserving winners of the 2014 Golden Ball award.

The midfielder recently captained Nigeria at the U-17 World Cup as the Super Eaglets won the competition, and also cemented his place as one of the outstanding individuals of his age group by winning the competition's Golden Ball for the best player of the tournament.

, and golden balls of yarn.

Angel di Maria recently mentioned that he doesn't think the World Cup Golden Ball winner wanted to leave the Catalan club in the Daily Mail.

He is old yes... But you do nt go from joint top scorer and and Golden Ball winner (voted best player) at a WC to being passed it in less than 12 months without a serious injury.

Yet the criterion by which he found earthly authorities almost always ludicrous, fraudulent, or corrupt was the criterion by which he found «the string from the golden ball, which led to Jerusalem's wall.»

messi should have won the golden ball even if he lost la copa america

Alexis Sanchez won the Golden Ball for being the player of the tournament and put in an impressive final performance against Argentina to win the cup, but it came with a cost, as Alexis posted a picture to the world showing off a nasty looking ankle.

He also won the Golden Ball in the CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship.

Nwakali earned the Golden Ball in the same tournament.

Messi won the World Cup's Golden Ball, awarded to its best player, and attempted more dribblers per match than any other player.

England forward Dominic Solanke, who will join Liverpool from Chelsea on July 1, was awarded the Golden Ball as player of the tournament, while Woodman secured the Golden Glove, the best goalkeeper of the tournament.

Ozil at the 2010 World Cup at 22 years old was nominated for the Golden Ball Award.

Draxler, who has 40 appearances for his country, is prone to injury at times, but was made captain of the young German side that won the Confederations Cup and was even given the Golden Ball for the Best Player of the Tournament as well.

We all know Alexis has aspirations of been a Golden Ball winner or even the Football Best Award so such games are a good opportunity for him to get more goals and improve his stats.

No wonder Arsene Wenger is known as the man with the golden balls.

He made several appearances and was even nominated for the Golden Ball award to show how impressive he had been for the Gunners.

Neuer is in competing with Oliver kahn, the only goalie to win the golden ball

Argentina's Lionel Messi was awarded the Golden Ball for being the Tournament's best player after losing in the World Cup Final to Germany.

Argentina's Lionel Messi was awarded the Golden Ball for being the Tournament's best player after losing in the World Cup Final...

Personally, James Rodriguez should have won the Golden Ball and Manuel Neuer winning the Golden Glove over Tim Howard is a joke.

He also won the Golden Ball at the World Cup.

This 22 - year - old AS Monaco forward is an early contender for the Golden Ball award for his performances and this chip against the Japanese was sublime.

The Arsenal star was given the Golden Ball for being the best player at the tournament, while his striker partner Eduardo Vargas earned the Golden Boot with six goals, and the Chile keeper Claudio Bravo deserved the Golden Glove after keeping three clean sheets.

CaughtOffside considers Thomas Muller's chance of picking up the coveted World Cup «Golden Ball» award.

Barcelona's Argentina forward Lionel Messiand Brazil right - back Daniel Alves, Atletico Madrid forward Diego Forlan — who scored five goals at the World Cup and received the Golden Ball award — and Real Madrid pair Cristiano Ronaldo and Mesut Ozil made up 11 players nominated from La Liga.