Mon 12 July 2010
Uruguayan striker Diego Forlan has been awarded with the world cup golden ball in South Africa
Diego Martín Forlán Corazo scored five goals in the World Cup in South Africa and was tied with Thomas Müller (Germany), Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands) and David Villa (Spain), who also scored the same amount of goals.
The 31-year-old Atlético Madrid player scored his first world cup goal against host South Africa in the 24th minute and doubled his tally in the 80th minuet via a penalty. Uruguay comfortably beat South Africa 3-0, with Porto’s Álvaro Pereira scoring in 95th minute of the match.
Uruguay Quarter Finals Vs Ghana:
In the quarter finals, Uruguay needed a miracle to get passed through the stubborn Ghanaian defense after Sulley Muntari gave the Africans the lead just before half time. In the 55th minute Forlán equalized to make the scores 1-1.
In the dying second of extra time, Luis Suárez, intentionally handed the ball in the penalty area and seen himself being sent off. But there was a twist to the tail, as Asamoah Gyan missed the all important penalty and the match had to be decided by a dreaded penalty shootout.
Forlán lead by example by taking the first kick of dreaded penalty shootout and when John Mensah and Dominic Adiyiah missed for Ghana, Uruguay went on to meet the Netherlands in the semi-finals.
Uruguay Semi-Finals Vs Netherlands:
Uruguay faced the defensive Netherlands in the semi-finals and when Van Bronckhorst scored in the 18th minute, the dream Uruguay to be in a world cup final faded away.
But Diego Forlan proved yet again scoring the all important equalizer just before half time but the Netherlands won this encounter 3-2, with Uruguay crashing out of the world cup.
Uruguay 3rd place playoff Vs Germany:
Germany had lost to eventual World Cup winners Spain and had to face Uruguay for the 3rd and 4th World Cup spot. Golden boot winner Thomas Müller opened the scoring for Germany in the 19th minute but nine minutes later Edinson Cavani equalized.
Hamburg's left back Marcell Jansen scored his third goal for Germany to make it 2-1 but the golden ball winner Diego Forlan equalized in the 51st minute.
In the 82nd minute Sami Khedira made it 3-2 to the Germans and with eight minutes to go, it looked like the Germans secured the 3rd play in South Africa.
In the last kick of the match, Uruguay were awarded a freekick just outside the penalty area and golden ball winner Diego Forlan stepped up only to hit the cross bar.
There was no doubt in the world that Diego Forlan deserved to win the FIFA World Cup 2010 Golden Ball in South Africa.
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