Okay so they fixed it since 2002 when Oliver Kahn was given the golden ball before the last match, to now when they will decide then announce after the match on Monday. But how about the young player of the tournament?

Podolskli is great, top notch, but did he really win it, or did Cristiano Ronaldo lose it.

Please, please can everyone out there take their heads out of their behinds and listen to me for a sec. Was it the Rooney incident or was it all the diving? If it was for the England match , you all should be ashamed. He was calling for the foul! or even calling for the red card. It shouldn't be named illegal. Everyone has done it, Gerrard, Rooney, Becks etc.. I've seen them do it in the EPL. They were not teamates, it was not a Man. United game, It's the frickin' World Cup. He deserves a slap for the wink to the Portugal bench after the send off but again, that's not illegal, it was just him being a smuk. Also by the mock head butt at the begining of the match, I really don't think they were friends before the incident, even though the Portuguese player who was watching thought it was funny, Rooney did not.

All that aside, the boy has skillz. He has flare and ran at every defender he faced. Okay, so he had no goals or assists and his finishing needs work. I'm thinking he's at 90%, he just needs a little more knowledge dropped on him (like a good kick in the a**) to be a complete player.

Um, okay I'll relent. Podolski is light years more mature a player than my boy.

Maybe Cristiano Ronaldo is the world next Beckham, hot as hell, the sexiest man of the world, but hey, Becks has made a career of it, right?

BTW, I swear I'm not a 16 year old teenybopper that listens to 'NSYNC.

I'm 23. :)

Also if FIFA or Gillette raised they age to 23. Lahm or Ribery would have won it for sure! Also what was Messi doing in the running, he played like 10 minutes all tournament.