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Now that the dust has settled and everyone has had the chance to cheer or cry into the night, let's take a peek at the awards. Firstly, Kolkata weren't the only winners, oh no, remember the Muthoot Fair Play Table?  Delhi Dynamos were the fairest of them all in the group stage and win a gigantic whistle trophy for their (lack of) trouble:  Note that it says 2014-15 when it's already over, excellent planning. ----------------------- Next up, the Um Jammer Lammy Exciting Player, as voted for by you, the fan, was Luis Garcia!   Five Lakhs. He certainly didn't "Lakh" excitement! ----------------------- The Amul Fittest Player Award was given at the end of every match to the fittest player, as chosen by Amul. The Fittest Player of the League was given to Jan Stohanzl of Mumbai City, who wasn't there to collect his oversized novelty cheque.  This fella was though, and he looks rather happy about it. Well done wherever you are, Jan! ----------------------- Now, remember that Katsouranis goal vid with the cool graphics? Here it is again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzdaUuOQBEY It happened to win the Goal of the League.  Nise Gel: Tough on pain, kind on deciding the best goal. ----------------------- Who won the Golden Glove? David James? Nah.  In fact, James was so bad that not one, but TWO Kolkata keepers got in ahead of him. Well done to Jan Seda. There's no picture of him with a trophy or cheque, maybe he dropped them :iamafag: ----------------------- The Golden Boot, as we already know, went to the legendary Elano.  That MINP, ooh. He was actually there to collect the award too:  Apparently he's donated his prize money to helping grassroots football in India, which is nice. ----------------------- Finally, the Hero ISL needs a hero. Rafique may have been the hero of the final, but the overall hero?  Who else but Iain Hume. Captain, Leader, Hero. ----------------------- Here's my own personal award for Most Appropriate Comparison:  ----------------------- There we have it. I'll give everyone a chance to post their thoughts and reactions before I give the thread a proper Christmas sendoff.
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the prizes are all under Ł5000 so i think a bunch of kids are getting some bibs and a few balls and thats it whilst Elano rides off in his solid gold rocket car laughing
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i forgot all about um jammer lammy
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I can't remember what I was going to do so for now here's the Indivision Song Contest winner once more.
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The ISL is OFFICIALLY bigger than Serie A. http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/dec/23/india-super-league-fourth-biggest-league
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Ever since the great Ganguly urged fans to support Atletico Kolkata, I knew I made the right choice
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Eau de MacGowan posted:The ISL is OFFICIALLY bigger than Serie A. Tidy little post-mortem and an encouraging one too. It feels good to have been part of something special from the very beginning, doesn't it? Imagine how big it'll be next year, look out Europe, here comes the ISL!
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Naturally we can't end without a credits sequence, so chuck this on repeat and let the credits roll. Atlético de Kolkata Chennaiyin FC Delhi Dynamos FC FC Goa FC Pune City Kerala Blasters FC Mumbai City FC Northeast United FC Luis García Elano Alessandro Del Piero Robert Pirčs David James Fredrik Ljungberg Joan Capdevila David Trezeguet Diego Nadaya Apoula Edel Bruno Pelissari Erwin Guilherme Batata Gustavo Marmentini Pedro Gusmao Saďdou Panandétiguiri Iain Hume Andrés González Jairo Suárez Luis Yanes Omar Andrés Rodríguez Jakub Podaný Jan eda Jan tohanzl Marek Čech Miroslav Slepička Pavel Eliá Tomá Josl Michael Chopra Iván Bolado Bernard Mendy Cédric Hengbart Gennaro Bracigliano Raphaël Romey Sylvain Monsoreau Youness Bengelloun Illias Polalis André Preto Edgar Marcelino Henrique Dinis Miguel Herlein Grégory Arnolin Massamba Sambou Arnal Bruno Herrero Arias Cristian Hidalgo Eduardo Silva Jofre Mateu Javier Fernández Victor Herrero Forcada Do Dong-hyun Park Kwang-il Bojan Djordjic A Bunch Of Indians Antonio López Habas Marco Materazzi Harm van Veldhoven Zico Peter Reid Ricki Herbert Franco Colomba  Fikru Teferra Lemessa - for scoring the first ever ISL goal, and for generally being one cool dude David James - for playing while bankrupt and truly encapsulating the spirit of the whole thing Peter Reid -  Elano - for showing why Manchester City were foolish to get rid of him, and for being a credit to The Big Yin Mohammed Rafique - for scoring the winning goal in the final, and emulating the great Mario Götze. Rafique shall be forever remembered as the Indian Götze Iain Hume - for being a Hero, nay THE Hero, and bringing pride to all Canadian people, and possibly one or two from Tranmere And finally... YOU, the Something Awful forums user, for being a part of this magnificent adventure  India told us to Let's Football, and football was most definitely let'sed. I look forward to discussing the benefits for India that are clearly going to come of this in 2015, but for now, I bid you all farewell.
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you are all very welcome, you racist pricks
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Eau de MacGowan posted:The ISL is OFFICIALLY bigger than Serie A. Good. I hope it continues to gain popularity because cricket bores me to tears.
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The ISL bug has already spread... to Bangladesh. http://zeenews.india.com/sports/football/kolkata-sports-firm-plans-isl-style-league-in-bangladesh_1521737.html quote:A city-based sports event management company has put forth a proposal to the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) for organising a football league emulating the highly successful Indian Super League (ISL).
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Hamas Rodriguez posted:you are all very welcome, you racist pricks If pointing out that Indians poo poo in the streets is racist, well then I'm ISL superstar striker Nicolas Anelka.
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No idea, but here's an article about Nesta that mentions him. http://www.sportskeeda.com/football/isl-what-alessandro-nesta-brings-to-chennaiyin-fc Oh what could have been... There's always next year Yinnites, never forget that.
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