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ESL / EFL Lesson Activity on Lionel Messi

Lionel Messi is the world’s best football player for the second year in a . He won the FIFA Ballon d'Or ahead of his Barcelona team- Xavi and Andres Iniesta. Messi, 23, 60 goals for his club and country in 2010, although he didn’t very well at the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. He told reporters: "To be , I didn't to win today, but it was already to be here next to my two mates. To win it makes it even more . I want to with all of my friends, my family, all the [Barcelona ] and the Argentinians."

The for the women’s player of the year went to Brazilian forward Marta. It is the straight time she has picked up the . She won with 38.2 per cent of the votes, Germany's Birgit Prinz and Kosovo’s Lira Bajramaj. Coach of the year went to Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho after Inter Milan to the Champions League, Serie A and Italian Cup . He became famous when he was Chelsea’s coach for calling the “Special One”. He said: "The most important for me are the collective titles, not the ones."