Lionel Messi has become the first player to win 5th Ballon d’Or awards. This superstar from Barcelona enjoyed an implausible year as well as now enjoyed the esteemed award for a fifth time. Cristiano Ronaldo has beaten Messi from last 2 years but Messi has edged out the team-mate and actual Madrid superstar Neymar this point around.
His earlier wins arrived among 2009 as well as 2012 with the newest victory signifying his arrival to the apex of the renowned game. Messi got top rank by having 41.33% votes, prior to Rnaoldo who have got 27.76%. Neymar got third position with only 7.86%.
Messi said, “It’s unbelievable this is my fifth.” Luis Enrique from Barcelona was nominated for ‘coach of the year’ while Carli Lloyd who is World Cup winner of United States, achieved a hat-trick in the finals alongside Japan, was declared ‘women’s player of the year’.
Primarily, in 1991 Messi won the “FIFA World Player of the Year” prize. Afterwards, it became notorious as the Ballon d’Or once inclusion with ‘European footballer of the year’ prize of France Football in 2010.
The award, divided completely between Real Madrid’s Ronaldo and Messi since Brazilian Kaka succeeded in 2007, has been greatly sponsored by FIFA and was put on air to 190 nations with 1,100 guests including coaches and players attending the ceremonial. Although it is not everybody’s cup of coffee and some columnists, like Arsene Wenger, Arsenal coach, declare it is not apt in a team sport. “I’m a huge rival of the Ballon d’Or. Award who will triumph it? You know and I do that it’s surely Messi who will get it.
I believe so. On the whole I’m not a huge fan of that award,” the Frenchman stated former on Monday. The collapse offered by FIFA also exposed strategic voting between171 media representatives, 162 nationwide team captains, and 165 nationwide team coaches who cast votes.
Messi, entitled to choose as Argentina captain, took the name of Barcelona team mates Andres Iniesta, Neymar, and Luis Suarez as his top three. Ronaldo, a Portugal captain voted three Real Madrid team members – Gareth Bale, James Rodriguez, and Karim Benzema. Vincent Kompany, a Belgium captain chosen his fellows Kevin de Bruyne and Eden Hazard as his top two.
More amazingly, Iker Casillas who is the captain of Spain as well as the earlier Real Madrid goalkeeper who currently plays for Portuguese club Porto did not vote like many others.
In spite of a red carpet plus ample glitz, the ceremony had a modest air of inevitability regarding it as well as was held next to the background of FIFA enduring the nastiest fraud disaster since it was initiated in 1904.
