If you’d put money on Lionel Messi winning this years FIFA World Player Of The Year award for 2010 you wouldn’t have got great odds, so straight forward was this years competition, in fact, your mother could probably have told you who was going to win before yesterday’s verdict was actually announced!

Messi becomes the first ever Argentinian to win the award in a year that has also seen him help his club team Barcelona win an unprecedented six trophies, including the Champions League and the domestic league title.

The XI, voted for by members of the international professional footballers’ union FIFPro, were: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), John Terry (Chelsea), Nemanja Vidic (Man Utd), Patrice Evra (Man Utd), Daniel Alves (Barcelona), Xavi (Barcelona), Andres Iniesta (Barcelona), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid), Fernando Torres (Liverpool).

So would you disagree with FIFAPro members?  Who do you think should have been crowned world player of the year?  We’d love to know!