CAF and FIFA Awards: My Humble Opinion

By Jimmy Carto

CAF and FIFA awards in my own humble opinion have almost always been shams, as long as the voting procedure are either rescinded, restructured or re-packaged we will continue to have these end results. Whilst the whole of the Nigerian nation would have loved to see Mikel become crowned African best player, they conveniently seemed to have forgotten that
it was about the 'ELECTION' and therefore sentiments, socio-political and club-inclined sentiments was always going to bring its weight to bear on the final outcome, one which now has Yaya DULY crowned the best player in Africa. Now my grouse is not Mikel losing this time around, neither do I feel that Yaya doesnt deserve it, but I find it harrowing and nauseating that CAF cant go one better than just garnering the votes of 41 coaches who obviously will have their own prejudices play out . . .

its almost inexplicable in my own opinion that we all talk about coaches of African national teams vote for outstanding performers NOT IN THEIR AFIRCAN-BASED CLUBS, NOT WITHIN WHAT THEY ACHIEVE ON THE CONTINENT BUT RATHER BASED ON THEIR ASSESSMENT OF THESE PLAYERS WHEN THEY ARE ON CLUB ASSIGNMENT . . . .HMMNN!!!

That brings me to FIFA too, how can we not equate this with the fact that we all choose to ignore the fact that the voting procedure here too has been faulted here and there, or what explains the top votes gotten by Balotelli and Rooney last season by a couple of 'well-informed' coaches? or waht explains what Goran Pandev said about his 'misplaced' vote that was supposed to go for Mourinho and was awarded another?

2010 is still fresh in the minds of many, we all know how Sneijder, Forlan, Iniesta all performed that season but who won it? a Messi that was so piss-poor at the Mundial and couldnt even score to save his life all tourney-long.....IN A WORLD CUP YEAR! The arguments on these awards being individual awards to reward accomplishments and not necessarily being about the contributions to team success beats me hollow still . . .is Football a team game or it has turned a one-man show just because a couple of individuals seem to have consistently defied chart-topping limits then we will disregard the essence of team bond especially when we reward success?

One wonders why FIFA is able to statistically evaluate the rankings of national teams without acrimony but cant in the same vein simply create a technical study group that will work with their video analysts and in-house media crew to evaluate players according to how how well they fare in competitions, calculated considering various indices, type of competitions and grade of same, goals, assists and saves according to level of opposition, level of consistency, percentage of contribution to team play by percentage, etc

Stephen Keshi during the last FIFA voting window voted Drogba and Yaya I believe as 2nd and 3rd best in the world in 2012, so what gives?

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