I see this brought up a lot and it’s so annoying. I’m from Spain but Messi rightfully won the trophy that year, he was unplayable and was the best player by a MILE in that Barca side. The issue is that Xavi and iniesta are two players so their votes got split, if it was just one of them then you can argue for them winning it. Imo neither of them were even the best performer for Spain in that WC, it was either David Villa or Casillas.