Goals wins you matches and accolades!

Last night world witnessed Lionel Messi lift his fifth Fifa ballon d'or trophy beating CR7 by a  huge margin (41% to 28%). We all clapped sang his praises on our whats app groups and twitter handles and its done and dusted for another 8-9 months at least. But do only goals win you awards on these glittery night? What about the defenders,holding midfielders and the valiant goalkeepers? Are their contributions inferior?

Ok lemme tell you an interesting fact. Last defender to lift Ballon d'or trophy was Fabio Cannavaro in 2006 which was 10 years back. No this was not what i was talking about, the astounding fact - he is the only defender to ever win this award in the entire it's existence. Boom! Besides him only 1 goal keeper had won it that too in 1964. Are we going too single minded while praising the good work? Why is that everyone thinks about goals and not clean sheets while determining the greatness of a player? I prefer playing as an all out attacker when i play on field but i have massive respect for the players who play at the back or you can say i am fond of what defenders do. I can make a mistake and get away with it easily but when they make a mistake its game over. Lets take a simple example we all remember the Gerrard slip which took title away from them but do we ever talk about the clear cut chances that suarez missed in that match?

Following is the list of the final 23 who were in race for the award

Keepers- Thibaut Courtois, Manuel Neuer

Defenders- Philipp Lahm, Javier Mascherano, Sergio Ramos

Midfielders- Gareth Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo, Mario Gotze, Angel di Maria, Toni Kroos, Eden Hazard, Lionel Messi, Arjen Robben, James Rodriguez, Paul Pogba, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Yaya Toure, Neymar, Andres Iniesta

Strikers- Karim Benzema, Diego Costa, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Thomas Muller

Lemme classify it furthur and make my point clearer-

Goal getters- 16

Goal restrictors- 7

and final three all goal getters.

The mismatch doesn't end here lets come to the transfer market. Highest fee ever paid for a defender £50 million for David Luis by PSG (and Suarez nut megged him there (; ) , highest fee paid £86 million for Gareth Bale by Real Madrid. Wages might revel another heart breaking story. I don't know since when this distinction is going but I do know when can we end this. Today! So lets keep our game Beautiful not only goalful.

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