Marta: World Player of the Year, But Not Perfect
So Messi won the FIFA Men's Player of the Year Award, and Marta won the FIFA Women's Player of the Year Award, and no-one was surprised. But should we have been? There's enough out there about Messi, so let's look at Marta and the women's award for a moment.
Shek Borkowski, former Indiana FC head coach and current head coach of WFC Zvezda-2005 in Russia, criticised FIFA's shortlist a couple of weeks ago, writing:
The list includes Cristiane (Brazil), Inka Grings (Germany), Marta (Brazil), Birgit Prinz (Germany), and Kelly Smith (England).
Pitch Invasion @ Dec 21, 2009 7:47 PM EDT | Blog Profile
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