Wes with the ball

'Look at me,' Wesley Sneijder gestures, drumming his forehead with his flat right hand. In Port Elizabeth's Nelson Mandelabaai Stadium, the gutsy Utrecht native sprints toward a television camera along the field and shouts: "Look at me! He is just about the smallest man on the field, but kills Brazil with a header goal.

Arjen Robben kicks a corner, Dirk Kuijt heads through and in the middle of the packed penalty area Wesley springs up: the ball on his ball, boom and hit, 2-1 for the Netherlands in the quarterfinals of the World Cup. 2010 is the year of Wes. With his club Inter Milan, he wins everything there is to win: the national title, the Copa Italia, the Champions League and the World Cup for clubs. With five goals, standout Sneijder also becomes one of the World Cup top scorers in South Africa. And his most beautiful goal is the one with the bullet.