Sabella: Messi deserves Golden Ball

Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella said Lionel Messi's adidas Golden Ball award as the player of the 2014 World Cup™ was 2014 brazil World Cup richly deserved despite the South Americans' defeat by Germany in the Final. Messi missed a glorious chance for Argentina in the showpiece at the Maracana but Sabella said the Barcelona forward is already among the true greats of the game. "He deserves it because he played an extraordinary World Cup," said Sabella. "He was a fundamental factor in the team making it to the final, along with everything done by his other team-mates. "The World Cup is a highly demanding Wholesale cheap jersyes tournament and as for his reputation, he is in that pantheon among the greats. But he was there before - he has been there for quite some time."