Profile David Villa

Personal information

Full name : David Villa Sánchez
Date of birth : 3 December 1981
Place of birth : Langreo, Spain
Height : 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position : Striker
Current club : Barcelona
Number : 7
Youth career :
1991–1999 Langreo
Senior career :
1999–2001 Sporting Gijón B
2001–2003 Sporting Gijón
2003–2005 Zaragoza
2005–2010 Valencia
2010– Barcelona


National team :
2000–2003 Spain U21
2005– Spain


Club career

Sporting de Gijón and Real Zaragoza

Villa dated spare-time activity from many Asturian teams, but one of the province's greater teams, Real Oviedo, documented that he was too short and that they did not consider he had adequate potential. He subsequently received his representative innovation at his provincial club Sporting de Gijón, pursuing in the footsteps of his childhood idol Quini. Starting out at the team's youth ranks, he organised his first-team début in the 2000–01 season. After scoring 25 objectives in couple seasons, he became a first team regular. Pepe Acebal, the Sporting Gijon overseer at the time, said that Villa earlier lacked the stamina to have a real impact and had to be given his chance bit by bit and that Villa's size for task was "unrivalled".

"He had great systematic qualities. His first touch was lovely and, even so you can never be sure someone will generate it, you could tell he was talented. He creates very proficient diagonal runs, contravening away from defenders, and he invariably organised the right decisions. He is very intuitive."

–Pepe Acebal, earlier Sporting Gijón manager

With his objective count virtually coming 40 objectives later using couple full seasons in Gijón's main team, Villa ultimately received his chance in Spain's top-flight after Sporting were in economic problem and newly promoted Real Zaragoza signalled him for about €3 million in the summer of 2003. The striker had no trouble adapting to playing at the higher crosswise, netting 17 times in his first season at Zaragoza. His league début came during Zaragoza's first La Liga game since his arrival where the team were defeated 1–0 away from home at the hands of Galician side Deportivo de La Coruña where his first objective came couple sporting activities resultant, an eighth very small objective against Real Murcia which left Zaragoza 2–0 higher in a fit which ended 3–0. 4 December 2003 saw him net his first brace (2 goals) in a 2–2 draw against Athletic Bilbao and on 25 April 2004, David Villa scored his first hat-trick in a tight 4–4 draw against Sevilla which saw Villa score all four of Zaragoza's objectives, positioning his team frontwards on couple occasions.

Zaragoza came the 2004 Copa del Rey final where he played a high component in the team's victory, scoring a essential objective to left the Aragonese outfit 2–1 higher against Real Madrid in a fit which lastly ended 3–2. Soon later he earned his first worldwide call-up and cap which resulted in Zaragoza fans becoming so proud of his triumphs, they unreal the football chant "illa illa illa, Villa maravilla" which is a play on the words "Villa" and "maravilla" which is as "marvel" but can also midpoint "wonderful" or "great" in that context. After Zaragoza's win in the Copa del Rey, they were bestowed a location in the 2004–05 UEFA Cup; this was Villa's first time playing in a European competition.

In the team's possibility assembly game against Utrecht, Villa netted a brace in the dying minutes of the game which subsequently ended 2–0 in Zaragoza's favour. In the throughout of 16, Zaragoza faced Austria Wien. The first leg ended 1–1, Villa scored in the second leg, however, the fit ended 2–2 which saw the team from Vienna go through to the subsequent point on the away objectives rule. Meanwhile, in La Liga, Villa excited Zaragoza fans on 23 September 2004 by positioning the team 1–0 higher against Barcelona at the Camp Nou, however, it was not to be as Barcelona came behind to win the game 4–1. On 17 April 2005, Villa scored a brace which alleviated suppose off Sevilla in a 3–0 victory.

Valencia

2005–06 season
After his success at Zaragoza, the team was in deficiency of money, as a issue, Villa organised his high transfer to one of Spanish football's heavyweights, as a novel facade Valencia below Quique Sánchez Flores parted with €12 million to shut higher his services in the summer of 2005. During his first game in a Valencia shirt, an Intertoto Cup fit against Belgian outfit K.A.A. Gent, Villa scored the first objective in a game which Valencia won 2–0. He organised his league début for Valencia originating on as a substitute against Real Betis in a 1–0 win on 27 August 2005. The subsequent fit would suppose his beforehand team, Real Zaragoza, directing 2–1 for the majority of the fit, however, on the 81st very small, Villa came on as a late substitute for Rubén Baraja and scored the equalizer within the space of a very small, earning Valencia a point as the game ended 2–2.

On 21 September, Villa would once again save Valencia a very noteworthy point by netting a brace against Barcelona at Camp Nou, presently compensating his team the lead at one point later Víctor Valdés' clearance rebounded off Villa's behind and into the net. On 23 October, Villa scored the winning objective against another Spanish giant, this time Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium and would once again score against Barcelona, on 12 February 2006, his one objective proving enough to shut higher all three points in a 1–0 victory. Villa scored a objective against Deportivo de La Coruña (at the Riazor on 4 February 2006), stated as "superb" by ESPN and "his best" by Sid Lowe any person who went on to credit it even more pointing out he achieved it "on the turn". Hitting the ball from the half way row (50 yards out) it sailed through the keepers head and into the net.

He scored his first hat-trick for Valencia against Athletic Bilbao at San Mamés in La Liga on the 23 April 2006. Villa treated the hat-trick in just through five minutes (80th to the 85th minute) taking in it one of the quickest hat-tricks ever recorded. Valencia won that game 3–0. That season saw him score 25 objectives in 35 league fits for Valencia, completing one objective behind the league's seal scorer Samuel Eto'o of Barcelona. Villa's objective count that year was the best that any Valencia performer had ever achieved since Edmundo Suárez through 60 years beforehand.

2006–07 season

Villa's type persisted into the 2006–07 season, with the striker profiling a partnership higher front with earlier Real Madrid star Fernando Morientes. Between them, Villa and Morientes netted 43 objectives in all competitions. That year also saw Villa début in the UEFA Champions League; his first fit was a qualifying fit, originating on as a late substitute in a 1–0 first leg loss against Red Bull Salzburg. He went on to commence the second leg and scored in a 3–0 win which saw Valencia qualify for the Champions League assembly stages. Crucial objectives against Roma and Shakhtar Donetsk alleviated Valencia qualify for the knock out points in time where they faced Inter Milan. Villa scored a loose kick objective in the first leg away from home, where one of Inter's defenders complained that Villa had "made us facade like idiots, all on his own". Valencia went through to the quarter finals where they faced Chelsea. Villa featured in both sporting activities but went incorrect to generate the score sheet. Valencia subsequently received knocked out by the London team 3–2 on aggregate. In October 2006 he was included among the 50 nominees for the Ballon d'Or (often referred to as the European Footballer of the Year Award).

A essential objective against Espanyol and a brace against Sevilla alleviated him come 16 objectives that season and would suppose him come 6th in La Liga's seal scorer items that season (scoring the same measure of objectives as fellow worldwide Raúl Tamudo) where he written more augments than anyone.

2007–08 season

David Villa later scoring a chastisement against Sevilla.
The 2007–08 season was not easy for Villa nor for his teammates. Early in the season, their overseer, Quique Sánchez Flores, was burnt and deposed by Ronald Koeman, any person who ended higher being burnt on the 22 April, later a run of broke results, even though he treated to win a trophy with Valencia, as the team overcome Getafe CF in the Copa del Rey-final. Koeman received deposed by the privileged UD Almería omnibus, Unai Emery, at the end of the season. Under Koeman, Villa treated to suppose the behind of the net 18 times in his 26 appearances. He also won the first representative trophy of his Valencia spell, winning the Copa del Rey for the second time in his career, overcoming Barcelona 3–2 in the semi-finals and afterward Getafe CF 3–1 in the final. compensating the team a location in the UEFA Cup. By the end of the season he signalled a novel six-year contract with Valencia, committing his future to the club until 2014.

That season, Villa once again saw himself playing Champions League football. He scored the simply objective in a 1–0 win against Schalke 04 and went on to left Valencia 1–0 higher against Chelsea, however, objectives from Joe Cole and Didier Drogba saw Valencia lose 2–1. Valencia wrapped higher bottom of the assembly and were knocked out. On his 100th league attainment for Valencia, Villa scored a hat-trick against Levante; his 54th, 55th and 56th league objectives for the club. Another couple objectives on the final day of the season against Atletico Madrid finished his count of 18 objectives that season.

2008–09 season

After completing as the seal scorer at Euro 2008, Villa persisted his type into the 2008–09 season where he scored the first objective in a 3–0 win against Mallorca in what was the possibility game of the season. After failing to pointer the performer, Real Madrid overseer at the time, Bernd Schuster, found fault Villa of having "no ambition", Villa replied by expression "Footballing ambition Is not come seal your mouth, It is come seal your feet. You can find fault me of lots of item - of having a evil-minded day, of nonexistent chances, of many things- but I have regularly had ambition and regularly will have. I think I have proved that on the sound with Zaragoza, Sporting, UD Langreo, and the national team." In October 2008, Kaká praised Villa, talking to Canal+, he contended that Villa is "the best Spanish footballer" adding that "The performer with whom I would bulk like to play is David Villa of Valencia." On 2 December 2008, Villa came 7th in the Ballon d'Or 2008 rankings and on 12 January 2009, Villa was transmitted as the joint 9th best performer of 2008 alongside worldwide team mate and Barcelona performer Andrés Iniesta, according to the 2008 FIFA World Player of the Year awards.

Valencia wrapped higher second in their UEFA Cup assembly, however, Villa was not featured strongly and was regularly an unused sub or a late sub. He scored a late winner against Maritimo and was adapted in the Round of 32 against Dynamo Kyiv, however, he did not generate the score sheet. The couple legs resulted in a 3–3 join combined score, Dynamo Kyiv went through as the away objective administer went in their favour.
Hitting a unvarying objective scoring type during mid season, he scored against Deportivo de la Coruña; however, he was sent off during the fit later his second yellow card, received due to a foul on Daniel Aranzubia and as a issue missed Valencia's subsequent fit against Real Valladolid, a game which Valencia hidden 2–1 at home. Ready to return from suspension, Villa suffered from an inflammation in the joint in his withdrew knee due to a partial dislocation and would be out for the subsequent 15 days, nonexistent sporting activities against Numancia, Recreativo de Huelva and Racing de Santander. When he ultimately returned from injury on 5 April 2009, he had no trouble recovering type, netting a brace in a fit against Getafe, which Valencia won 4–1.[On 12 April, Villa was set to return to El Molinón, the home ground of Sporting de Gijón where he commenced his career. He admitted that the encounter would be very emotional for him but went on to score the second Valencia objective in a 3–2 win and saved a pre-match guarantee by not celebrating the goal. His objective against Villarreal brought his count to 26, he afterward scored another couple against Athletic Bilbao completing with 28 objectives later the terminal game of the season, consequently equalling itemising set by the Argentinian Mario Kempes and the Montenegrin Predrag Mijatović, any person who also scored 28 objectives in a Valencia shirt in 1978 and 1996, respectively. Kempes came his count of 28 objectives in 34 sporting activities where Mijatović achieved it in 40, ultimately supposing Villa overcome their fractions, as he achieved the 28 objectives in 33 sporting activities, recording a objective ratio of 0.84 objectives per game. That season saw Villa's best season at Valencia as far as objective scoring is concerned.

With the season through Villa had tagged his fourth year at Valencia, with simply Eto'o scoring more objectives than him in that time span (six more).British columnist Sid Lowe points out that Eto'o achieved this "in a team that racked higher 129 [goals] more than Villa's side" and kept particulars that "most of that time he [Villa] has extracted Valencia's corners and free-kicks – and however good a performer is he can't head in his have crosses." Villa also ended the season as the third seal scorer in La Liga with a total of 28 objectives, just behind Samuel Eto'o (30) and Diego Forlán (32). After recording the best objective count for a Valencia performer in 60 years behind in the 2005–06 season, he went three advanced in the 2008–09 season. The 28 league objectives plus 3 more in other skirmishes that season, acumulated a total of 101 objectives in 180 official sporting activities with the Valencian outfit

2009–10 season

"David Villa is a phenomenon – the best in Europe"
–Quini, five-time Pichichi winner
After the dismay exit from the Confederations Cup with the Spain team, Villa returned from his getaways on 27 July, amid much media speculation linking him with seal clubs such as Real Madrid, Barcelona, Liverpool, Chelsea, and Manchester United. Villa left to bed such rumours reporting his longing to remain at the Mestalla to fulfil his contract underlining that he "could not use all summer negating item, so I trusted to be quiet... I was conveyed I ought withdraw Valencia for the good of the club, before long later that everything modified and from that moment on I never saw myself out of here - in the past the Euros, the club conveyed me what my asking price was, and I thought they were overseen to sell me, but after I returned from my getaways, Vicente Soriano said that he did not want me to withdraw Valencia. That extracted all distrust for me. There is no train missed because all that I have achieved is because of Valencia and the Spanish national team." When suspected on whether or not he ought pardon to Valencia fans, he basically replied, "I did not kill anyone, I do not think I have to request forgiveness."
On 20 August 2009, Villa scored in his first official fit of the season, a 3–0 UEFA Europa League qualifer against Stabæk. He pursued this higher with couple objectives against Real Valladolid on 13 September, these were Villa's first league objectives of the 2009–10 season. He scored two times more a week resultant against earlier club Sporting Gijón in a 2–2 draw at the Mestalla where he implemented duties as the team's captain. After the fit, Villa hinted towards being unhappy with Unai Emery's managerial decisions, stating "The approach for the second half was not right. We taking it easy and ended higher with the same issue as terminal year. What has occurred, has occurred, but their goalkeeper was good, unlike our approach, which was not good", however, a day resultant he turned down being serious of Emery pointing out that "When I discussed come seal the approach, I was referring to the every component of team, I articulated in the heat of the moment, I was bothered at the way we hidden couple points and I said what I thought, but I have described everything that was deficient to be removed up."
In 2009 he scored more objectives than any other footballer, 43 objectives in 54 sporting activities across all skirmishes for Spain and Valencia.The IFFHS recorded him 4th in the "World's Top Goal Scorer 2009" rankings.

On 18 October, Villa was selected for the Ballon D'Or, where virtually couple weeks resultant, on 30 October, he was selected for the FIFA World Player Of The Year. After overseen three league sporting activities without scoring, Villa contributed couple objectives towards Valencia's 4–1 victory against Villarreal on 17 January 2010, the first of his couple objectives became his 100th league objective with Valencia. Another brace came against Getafe on 22 February 2010, the second objective being "a lovely chip" (as stated by ESPN) through Jordi Codina. On 18 March, Valencia went to the Weserstadion to play Werder Bremen in the Europa League. Villa scored a hat-trick, his third objective being of message, which was burnt in from eight yards out. The fit ended 4–4 where Valencia carried on to the subsequent throughout on away goals. On May 4, 2010, Valencia played Xerez, Villa did not commence but came on as a substitute 62 minutes into the fit, which ended 3-1. Valencia immobile had couple more sporting activities to play in the league, however, Villa did not attribute, taking in the game against Xerez the terminal time he played for Valencia.

Barcelona

2010–11 season
David Villa during his recital as a Barcelona player.
On 19 May 2010, Barcelona came an harmony with Valencia, for the acquisition of Villa for the compensation of €40 million.
Villa signalled on a four year contract with Barcelona, with the option for a fifth, worth a reported €7 million per season and consequently, treated to pursue in the footsteps of his heroes, Luis Enrique and Quini, both of whom, like Villa, commenced out at Sporting Gijón and ended higher at Barcelona. On 21 May 2010, through 35,000 Barcelona devotees crowded into Camp Nou to suppose Villa's recital, where he divulged the kit Barcelona would exercise during the 2010-11 season. He was given his darling diagram 7, a diagram which had been loose at the club since Eiður Guðjohnsen withdrew in 2009.

He organised his first attainment for the club in the 2nd leg of the Supercopa de España, during the second half as a substitute for fellow Spain worldwide, Pedro. His début attainment would also suppose him win his first detail of silver-ware with the Catalonian side, as Barcelona won 5-3 on join combined due to a hat-trick by teammate Lionel Messi. His first objective came during the Joan Gamper Trophy (an every year friendly competition) against AC Milan. Barcelona won 3-1 on extra distributes (after the fit had ended 1-1 during standard time).

On 29 August 2010, Villa organised his La Liga début with Barcelona against Racing de Santander, where he scored the third objective of the fit to assist seal a 3-0 victory.[88] On 14 September 2010, Villa scored on his Champions League début with Barcelona in a 5-1 victory through Panathinaikos F.C.

Against Sevilla, on 31 October 2010, Barcelona won 5-0 against the Andalusian side, where Villa netted a brace. His first objective that fit was voted "The Best Goal Of The Week (October 25–31)" by the readers of Goal.com.[90] Villa's first "El Clásico" came on 29 November 2010, he scored couple objectives as Barcelona won 5-0 at the Camp Nou. Talking come seal the fit, he said that, "It's been a very noteworthy win. We stared for the victory and we received it. And the issue and the manner in which we achieved it, you cannot request more."

International career

World Cup 2006

An occasional member of the Under 21 team, Villa tagged his worldwide début below Luis Aragonés on 9 February 2005 in a 2006 World Cup Qualifier where Spain overcome San Marino 5–0 at the Estadio del Mediterráneo where his first worldwide objective came in the type of a late equaliser during a World Cup qualifier against Slovakia.
A successful season with Valencia saw him receive summoned higher as component of the 23-man squad to create Spain at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Spain's first fit at the tournament and Villa's World Cup début resulted in a 4–0 win against Ukraine where Villa netted a brace, and also left his nation 1–0 higher against France in the Round of 16, even so Spain went on to lose the fit 3–1. He and Fernando Torres wrapped higher as Spain's seal scorers with three objectives each.

Euro 2008

"We complement each other very well. We receive on well on the sound and adequately off it too. We're a good partnership. We both follow down defenders, left pressure on and scuffle to write chances for each other. We task well together."
–David Villa on Fernando Torres.

By the end of 2006, Villa had become an integral component of Luis Aragonés' prepares and ousted Raúl from the team. Proving very noteworthy in Spain's qualification for Euro 2008, he scored six goals, surrounding a bicycle kick against Liechtenstein. He was subsequently summoned higher for the tournament where he profiled a assaulting relationship with Torres, with whom he would regularly celebrate his goals. He scored a hat-trick in Spain's 4–1 win through Russia, taking in him the first performer to do so at a UEFA European Championship since Patrick Kluivert in 2000, and simply the seventh overall. After the third objective, he receded of his way to find Torres, any person who was on the bench at the time, to celebrate with him, "I had just scored a hat-trick and I knew population would be discussing come seal me, but I trusted them to suppose that I had benefited from Torres's task, just as he sometimes superiority from mine." In the subsequent fit, he attached a 2–1 win against Sweden with a objective in the 92nd minute. Rested for the subsequent fit against Greece, he commenced once again in the quarter finals where Spain overcome Italy 4–2 on extra distributes, Villa took the first chastisement and scored.

Reaching their first semi-final in 24 years, Spain went on to face Russia for the second time during the tournament, however, during the early points in time of the fit, Villa upheld a thigh injury later taking a loose kick and was deposed by Cesc Fàbregas. The injury meant that he could not participate in the final where Spain overcome Germany 1–0 to contend their second win at the European Football Championships. Despite nonexistent the final and the majority of the semi-final, Villa's 4 objectives in the 4 sporting activities he played were enough for him to be seal scorer of the tournament and was awarded the Golden Boot. He also organised the UEFA Euro 2008 Team of the Tournament alongside assaulting friend Torres.

Spain's first fit during qualification for the 2010 World Cup was against Bosnia and Herzegovina where Villa scored the simply objective of the game. He would go on to score four objectives in Spain's subsequent three sporting activities, surrounding a terminal very small winner against Belgium. Another objective during a friendly fit against Chile saw him end the year with 12 objectives, contravening Raúl's record of 10 objectives held since 1999. Villa started 2009 with a objective against England in a 2–0 friendly, with this objective, he cracked another record and became the first Spanish worldwide to have scored in 6 consecutive sporting activities, supposing off itemising set by Telmo Zarra and Ladislao Kubala. Speaking of the objective he said, "I am very delighted with the goal. Truth is, I truly want to suppose it on TV. The record is very nice. I would never have envisioned in years that I would be able to accept it. I am very proud and I hope I can reach contravening records".


David Villa (number 7) with the Spain team in the past a fit against Austria.
On 1 June 2009, Vicente del Bosque called Villa in his 23 man squad for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup. In a friendly fit in the past the tournament, Villa scored his second worldwide hat-trick against Azerbaijan, virtually right away a year later his hat-trick against Russia at Euro 2008.[108] He débuted at the Confederations Cup with a objective, the terminal of the five objectives in Spain's 5–0 victory through New Zealand, where in the subsequent game he scored the settled objective against a defensive Iraqi team. Against South Africa, he missed a chastisement, but within a very small organised higher for the miss by positioning Spain frontwards, alleviating them similar the itemising of bulk consecutive wins and bulk consecutive fits undefeated in the past taking in way for Pablo Hernández. The objective was his terminal of the tournament but was enough to suppose him win the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup Bronze Shoe, he would also go on to generate the team of the tournament.

Villa earned his 50th cap during a friendly against the Republic of Macedonia in a fit where Spain won 3–2. On 5 September 2009, Villa supplemental couple more objectives to his objective count for Spain, where joining two times during the World Cup Qualifier against Belgium, in A Coruña. The fit ended 5–0 to Spain where Villa also had a first-half chastisement saved by the 30 year old A.S. Bari goalkeeper Jean-Francois Gillet. He wrapped higher the year with his sixth worldwide brace against Austria in the Ernst-Happel-Stadion, the setting where Spain were crowned European Champions the beforehand year. With these couple objectives, Villa equalled the record he set terminal year of bulk objectives scored in one calendar year by a Spanish international. Spain's first fit in 2010 came on March 3, against France at the Stade de France. Villa scored the possibility objective in a game which Spain went on to win 2–0.
World Cup 2010


David Villa celebrating his objective against Portugal along with team-mates Fernando Llorente and Andrés Iniesta.
In 2010, he came 1st in the IFFHS "2010's World Top Goalscorer at International Level" rankings, he was subsequently picked as a component of Vicente del Bosque's 23 man squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. In a friendly against Saudi Arabia on May 29, 2010, Villa scored the first of Spain's objectives as they won 3-2 at the Tivoli Neu - the stadium where he scored his hat-trick against Russia during Euro 2008. Failing to score in Spain's subsequent fit against Korea Republic, he opened the score piece of paper in Spain's subsequent fit against Poland, a fit where Poland hidden 6-0, recording their most severe defeat in 50 years.

In Spain's first 2010 FIFA World Cup fit, Villa was picked as a solitary striker, however, he could do none to prevent the country's dismay defeat at the hands of the Swiss. Five days resultant, Spain defeated Honduras 2-0, where Villa scored both objectives, but wasted his chance to achieve a hat-trick after he was awarded a chastisement kick - side-footing the ball just wide of the post. It was the first time in fourteen tackles Spain ever missed a chastisement in a World Cup during the run of play. In the same game, Villa was shown to slap Emilio Izaguirre in the face later the Honduran performer trod on him. Villa said he was "not proud" of the heat of the moment happening, but he left a ban. Villa alleviated shut higher Spain's location in the throughout of 16 later scoring the first objective in a 2-1 win through Chile, with a long-range shot into an empty net later Chilean goalkeeper Claudio Bravo outpoured out of his paddock to prevent Torres from scoring. The objective would become his 6th objective in FIFA World Cup fits, becoming Spain's all time seal scorer at the World Cup finals, frontwards of Emilio Butragueño, Fernando Hierro, Fernando Morientes and Raúl González, all of whom have five. Spain were higher against Portugal in the throughout of 16, Villa would prove to be very noteworthy once again, as Xavi backheeled an Andrés Iniesta surpass to the on-rushing Villa any person who beat the behind of the net on the recoil later having his first shot saved by Eduardo, proving enough to give Spain a location in the quarter-finals against Paraguay, where Villa scored a objective from a recoil later Pedro beat the post. Once again, Villa's objective proved to be the difference as the fit wrapped higher 1-0, where Spain retained a game with Germany in the semi-finals, where Spain registered yet another 1-0 victory with the simply objective originating from Carles Puyol.

Villa commenced in the final against the Netherlands, where he had an area to score from seal range, but was obstructed by John Heitinga any person who treated to prevent his shot. Villa would lastly generate way for Torres later 106 minutes on the pitch. Spain became world heroic separate population as they went on to win the fit 1-0, where Villa was awarded the Silver Shoe, with the Gold Shoe overseen to Thomas Müller, both players had five objectives, however, Müller had more assists. He was subsequently called in the FIFA World Cup All-Star Team.