Agyemang Badu nominated for FIFA Best Goal Award, 2012

Sports News of Wednesday, 14 November 2012 Source: Joy Online Ghana International Emmanuel Agyemang Badu has been nominated for the 2012 Puskas Award.The award, instituted by world football governing body FIFA is to award the player, male and female, judged to have scored the most aesthetically significant and "most beautiful" goal of the year.Emmanuel Agyemang Badu’s goal scored in Ghana’s final group D match against Guinea at the Stade de Franceville in Guinea at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations will compete with nine others for the FIFA Puskas Award 2012 and the player with the highest number of votes wins the award.The midfielder who turns 22 on December 2 will have to beat competition from Brazil’s Neymar, Argentina’s Lionel Messi, Radamel Falcao, Moussa Sow and five others.He believes his good work is yielding fruits. “First of all I thank the almighty Father for this wonderful nomination