UAE-based Indian businessman built the house for Zubair Vazhakkad, a farmer in Vazhakkad village in Kerala’s Malappuram district. Photo: Twitter
An ‘Argentina Football House’ is making rounds on social media platforms as it was gifted by an United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based Indian businessman to a farmer from Kerala whose unique commentary went viral during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
Afi Ahmed, managing director of UAE-based Smart Travels, built the house for Zubair Vazhakkad, a farmer in Vazhakkad village in Kerala’s Malappuram district.
During the FIFA World Cup matches, Zubair’s commentary in a regional Malay accent became viral on social media. Despite not having professional qualifications, the farmer was familiar with all the teams and players.
When Afi learned of Zubair’s passion for soccer and his love for Messi and Argentina, the business tycoon offered to fly with Zubair to Qatar to watch his favorite games live.
However, Zubair had to decline the offer as he had to take care of his ailing family members. After this, Afi offered to restore Zubair’s dilapidated house and gifted him a house with an Argentinian theme.
“It is my dream home. I don’t have words to thank him,” Zubair was quoted as saying by Gulf News.
This Monday the prizes that highlight the best coach and the most outstanding players were delivered. Messi, Scaloni, Martínez and the Argentine fans took the most anticipated prizes. For her part, Alexia Putellas repeated as the most outstanding footballer.
After the World Cup in Qatar, the International Federation of Associated Football (FIFA) gala did not have many surprises: Argentina, the world champion team, swept the most important awards: best player, best goalkeeper and best coach.
“The World Cup kills any competition,” said a journalist from the ‘ESPN’ channel in Spanish. And it is not out of reason. The World Cup, in addition to paralyzing the planet, is the final aspiration of a footballer. Played for the first time in the Middle East, Qatar 2022 had the advantage of bringing together the best football players from 32 national teams. All with the thirst to return to the World Cup grass after a year of delay due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
With that drag Lionel Messi was crowned the most valuable player of 2022. He broke the string of Robert Lewandowski, who won the award in 2020 and 2021. The competition was not easy, the French Kylian Mbappé and Karim Benzema were the other nominees for the award at the ceremony on Monday.
“Is incredible. It was a tremendous year and it is an honor for me to be here tonight and win this award”, said the only player who has all the important football trophies. “I achieved a dream that I had been waiting for so long and I finally did it. It is a dream for any player, very few people can achieve it and I was lucky to do it ”, he concluded.
Lionel Scaloni experienced a similar situation, who had to dispute the recognition of best coach against ‘Carletto’ Ancelotti, the Real Madrid coach and Pep Guardiola, coach of the powerful Manchester City.
For his part, the best goalkeeper was Emiliano ‘Dibu’ Martínez, who dedicated the award to his parents and brother. “They worked 12, 13 hours a day to provide food for my house” while he was in the sport, said ‘Dibu’ to the cameras of the reporters present. His mother cleaned floors while his father worked at the port, in a truck “that was leaking water,” the athlete said.
The Argentine fans were not left out of the party. He won the prize for the best fans.
The albiceleste only sought one goal: the world cup. An objective that everyone was clear about, the common factor of the statements of the three prominent ones. While Scaloni stressed that the key to victory was teamwork, Messi highlighted the work of his teammates.
The glasses also witnessed Messi’s claims. “For me it was my last World Cup and I wanted to enjoy it to the fullest”, a sentence that opens the door to future debates about the end of the 35-year-old’s career.
Putellas, the most outstanding soccer player
Everywhere you turned in the theater there was a star, either retired or active.
In the women’s field, several awards were also given: Alexia Putellas won the trophy for the second year in a row. Putellas took it in the middle of a race with the English Beth Mead, from Arsenal and the American Alex Morgan, from the San Diego Wave club.
Mary Earps was chosen as the best goalkeeper, as well as Sarina Wiegman, the best coach.
The other FIFA awards
The Puskas award for the best goal of the year went to the Polish player Marcin Oleksy. This athlete lost his lower left leg in a work accident, which is why he plays in the amputee category. A half-volley goal supported on one of his crutches was enough to win the award.
At the gala, tribute was also paid to Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as ‘Pelé’, who died last December.
‘The Best’ has been awarded since 2017 after the breakup of the old ‘FIFA World Player’ award with the ‘Ballon d’Or’, awarded by the French publication ‘France Football’. A merger that tried to unify the criteria for who was the best player of the year.
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PARIS (Reuters) – Lionel Messi, who led Argentina’s men’s soccer team to its 2022 world cup campaign, won FIFA’s “The Best” award for the world’s best player on Monday at a gala ceremony where his compatriots Lionel Scaloni and Emiliano Martínez were also awarded.
Messi, 35, defeated France’s Karim Benzema and Kylian Mbappé to win the player of the year trophy.
“This year was crazy for me, I managed to fulfill my dream after so much fighting, so much searching, so much insisting”, said Messi, with the prize in hand.
“It’s a dream for any player and few can achieve it. And I did. I want to thank my family and the people of Argentina for having lived this very special month the way we did, which will remain in our memories for a lifetime,” he added.
Coach Lionel Scaloni, in turn, surpassed Pep Guardiola, from Manchester City, and Carlo Ancelotti, from Real Madrid.
“I’m especially proud because it’s an award that players vote for, and for me it has enormous value. I want to thank the players, the 26 who led us to glory. Without them we would not have achieved anything. I will be eternally grateful to them”, said the coach of the Argentine national team.
Meanwhile, Emiliano “Dibu” Martínez took the award for best goalkeeper.
“It is very good for my career. It is a source of pride for my country. Winning a World Cup after 36 years is something beautiful”, said Martínez, who beat Moroccan Yassine Bounou, from Sevilla, and Belgian Thibaut Courtois, from Real Madrid.
In the women’s category, Spain’s Alexia Putellas won the player of the year award for the second consecutive season.
The ceremony in which the best of 2022 are awarded is held in Paris.
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Proclaimed world champion with Argentina, Lionel Messi He is the great favorite to win the best player award at the awards ceremony The Best of Fifa, which is held in Paris.
The PSG superstar (35 years old) finally conquered with his country the supreme title that was missing from his illustrious record and is the best placed to obtain the favor of the jury, made up of coaches, national team captains and journalists, as well as by the public vote online.
In the event of winning the award, Messi would achieve that distinction for the third time in his career, after 2009 and 2019, and would succeed Polish striker Robert Lewandowski, the current double winner in 2020 and 2021.
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Scaloni, very excited
“Thank everyone for the award. It’s an award that footballers vote for and for me it has enormous value. Thank the 26 players who led us to glory, without them we wouldn’t have achieved anything,” said Scaloni. He also thanked the directors and his coaching staff. “There is nothing more beautiful than seeing your people and your country happy,” he added.
No surprises: another award for Argentina
Lionel Scaloni is the best coach of 2022 at The Best awards gala. Just this Monday he renewed his relationship with the Argentine National Team.
Next Announcement: Best Men’s Coach
Lionel Scaloni, Carlo Ancelotti and Josep Guardiola are the finalists.
Sarina Wiegman, the best coach of the year
He won the Euro with England. “The architect of the Netherlands’ Euro 2017 triumph, she implemented a dynamic style of play that allowed England’s wealth of talent to flourish. The Lionesses scored 22 goals in their six tournament games and conceded just two. When they didn’t sweep their rivals with their vibrant attacking game, England did their best to pick up extra-time victories against Spain in the quarter-finals and against Germany in the final,” Fifa said.
The best coach of 2022 will be announced. The nominees, Sonia Bompastor, Sarina Wiegman and Pia Sundhage.
Olesky, the winner of the Puskas
Marcin Olesky scored the best goal of the year, as voted by Fifa. “Oleksy, a Polish amputee player, combined his exceptional athleticism, imagination and scissor-scoring ability that left everyone in awe. His goal sparked celebrations from his Warta Poznan teammates, and images of the astonishing goal soon went viral.” Fifa said in his nomination.
The best goal of the year
The Puskas award is coming.
draw, very excited
“Being able to lift the World Cup was exciting and even more so in the economic moment we are going through in my country. My family is a big part of this, the people from Aston Villa, from the National Team; Lionel Scaloni, who gave me the opportunity to fulfill my I dream. Seeing my mother clean the floor for 8 or 9 hours, seeing my father work: they are my idols,” said ‘Dibu’.
Will there be an Argentine sweep?
Dibu Martínez wins the award for the best goalkeeper of 2022.
The award for the best goalkeeper of the year is coming
Thibaut Courtois, Dibu Martínez and Yassine Bounou, the finalists.
The words of Mary Earps
“I don’t know what to say. Holding this trophy is very heavy. Thanks to my teammates, the Manchester United staff,” she said. “Sarina, thank you for giving me the chance to pursue my dreams,” she added, referring to her country’s coach, Sarina Wiegman.
The best archer of 2022
Mary Earps, Manchester United and England goalkeeper, wins Goalkeeper of the Year.
The first prize of the night is coming
The first winner will be announced: the best archer of 2022. Ann-Katrin Berger, MAry Earps and Christiane Endler, the finalists.
3:17 p.m.
According to information from the newspaper Marca, these would be the winners of The Best awards gala:
Best player: Lionel Messi. 🇦🇷 Best DT: Lionel Scaloni. 🇦🇷 Best goalkeeper: Dibu Martínez. 🇦🇷
“God created Edson and Edson created Pelé,” said Marcia Aoki, the star’s wife, upon receiving an honorary trophy from Fifa.
Ronaldo Nazario talks about Pelé
“Pelé will always be eternal. He made an impact on us on and off the field,” said the Brazilian striker, world champion in 1994 and 2002.
More tributes to Pelé
Fifa showed an emotional video at the gala in which Pelé himself, who died in December, tells what football meant to his life.
This is how Lionel Messi arrived at the gala.
“Pelé is football, Pelé is eternal”, says Gianni Infantino. The wife of the Brazilian star was invited to the gala.
Infantino talks about the 2022 World Cup
The president of Fifa says that they come from experiencing the best World Cup in history at the end of last year. He thanked Qatar for the organization.
Gianni Infantino, President of Fifa, welcomes.
Lionel Messi arrives at the gala
Argentine Lionel Messi, favorite to win the best player award, arrived at the gala with his wife, Antonella. He is dressed in a discreet black tuxedo.
The opinion of Ronaldo Nazario
Ronaldo Nazario assures that Lionel Scaloni is the favorite to win the award for the best coach. Scaloni won the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and has just renewed his contract with Argentina. And he believes that Lionel Messi will be the winner for best player.
Expectation for the gala
The official Fifa act will begin at 3 in the afternoon.
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