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Ronaldo deserved it more than Zidane in 1998
I blame FIFA for 2010 and 2014, they owned the Ballon d’Or during this era before it came back to French Football and clearly their voting system had issues
No, they did not “own” it. It was a collaborative between two. Tho I agree. In 2010 Iniesta had the most journalist vote, in 2013 ribery, and I think in 2014 it was neuer.
NT should mean nothing in this kind of contests, if Ronaldo or Messi played for Poland or Norway they’d never win it
The Frenchman Luka Modric
En German CR7, the Spanish Messi
I still don’t know how Modric won the 2018 Ballon D’or. He was not the best player in the world that year lol.
Ronaldo 100% wins it if he doesn’t ask to leave madrid. He was insane that year.
Except he was awful in the first half of the season. Paulinho outscored him up until Christmas lol.
that just puts that absurd comeback in the second half he had in perspective.
It wasnt based on season, but on calendae year.
Well it’s a good thing the first half doesn’t count towards the 2018 B’Dor lol.
Clearest example of the strength of Madrid PR we have. That was 100% Cristiano’s Balon to win, yet the moment he left Madrid suddenly next best got propped up and ended up getting it against all odds.
against all odds
He won the CL and carried Croatia to a world cup final
Modric won it by a big margin. He would’ve won it regardless.
753 points for Modric
478 points for Ronaldo
Lifetime Achievement Award
Ronaldo would’ve won it if he didn’t ask to leave Madrid lol
Perez too strong
It was the greatest media campaign. People were so pissed xavi and iniesta never got one and there was this campaign for anyone not Messi or Ronaldo, it was like a gift to prove it wasn’t only for attackers
Bullshit lmao 🤣.
At worst Modric was top 5 in World Cup.
Same with CL. Best midfielder in CL.
He wasn’t even best player in his team.
That’s bullshit now.
Modric deserved it for his career and for carrying Croatia to a world cup final. Only Cristiano getting a Balon d’Or in that STACKED Real Madrid squad that won five UCLs would have been a travesty. I sincerely don’t get why Reddit is so annoyed by Modric getting a Balon d’Or, seems to be a “stats” thing.
As many have joked before, “the Ballon D’or is won by Florentino, not by the players”.
French vote was split between Mbappé, Griezmann and someone else. On top of that, voter fatigue and World Cup
He was one of the best though. People underestimate his performance in the WC imo, especially in these comments
Neither was Messi this year and he’ll probably win it as well
Was indisputably the best player in world Cup and he did actually won the world Cup not the runner up medal
And Messi in 2010. Iniesta Xavi or Sneijder deserved that
But but messi is going to win it this year
W Modrić
Ronaldo played just 7 games in 2002 and won Ballon D’or. He injured his knee in the first week of December 2001, didn’t play in any warmup games for Brazil, and did not debut until January 2003 for Madrid. 7 games, won the world cup and best player with the worst haircut in the history of humanity. That is how good he was.
People in the comment section acting like CR not winning in 2018 is the craziest thing and not Messi winning it ahead of Sneijder or Iniesta in 2010 lmao Homie did shit in the WC, and got knocked out by Sneijder’s Inter in the CL semis.
There’s too much weight in Sneijder’s treble when it was Milito who scored in the ucl final, coppa italia final and the final game of the season. He wasn’t even in the 30 man nomination.
Homie haha
Sneijder robbed in 2010. No player deserved it more than him
He wasn’t the best Inter or Netherlands player
Iniesta was robbed
The 2006 for Cannavaro is just laughable; the fact he has a Ballon D’or is ridiculous
As it always should be
WC over everything
This doesn’t show additional context. Like in 2002, Oliver Khan finished 3rd, only behind R9 and Roberto Carlos. Bayern didn’t win a thing in 01/02, that was absolutely because of how well Khan did at the World Cup. Same with Messi winning over Lewa in 2021, he’d finally won an international trophy, so got rewarded for it
Neuer not winning in 2014 was crazy
Neuer eserved the World Cup Golden Ball but not the Ballon D’Or