Ballon d’Or Nominations: Organizers Give Vague Explanation on Messi missing Nomination – The footballing world was taken by surprise yesterday when Ballon d’Or announced it’s 30-man shortlist for the award. Much to the dismay of everyone, Lionel Messi was not nominated while his long-term rival Cristiano Ronaldo was present on the list. After controversy rose about the exclusion of Messi, the French organizers and L’Equipe went on to give a vague explanation for the nomination. Follow Football LIVE updates on IasideSport.IN
Ballon d’Or Nominations: Organizers give vague explaination on why Cristiano Ronaldo was nominated and Lionel Messi wasn’t: Check OUT
Lionel Messi is the reigning winner of the Ballon d’Or award and has won it a record 7 times. This has been the first time since he has not been nominated since 2005. On the flip side, Cristiano Ronaldo has been nominated for 18 years straight since 2004. The French organizers went on to explain that Lionel Messi has not been nominated based on the criteria that are required in a football season.
Justifying their nomination process, the French organizers explained that Messi missed out on the 30-man nomination due to his subpar performance in the recent football season and not overall in the calendar year.
Lionel Messi fails to make the Ballon d’Or shortlist for the first time since 2005 😳 pic.twitter.com/7c4g5NoWGX
— GOAL (@goal) August 12, 2022
The French publication’s initial justification is the modification of the Ballon d’Or criteria, pointing out that it is now based on the football season and not the calendar year and that Messi’s performances were below par. After making a sensational transfer to PSG from Barcelona last summer, Messi had a disaster of a first season.
Ballon d’Or Nominations: Organizers give vague explaination on why Cristiano Ronaldo was nominated and Lionel Messi wasn’t: Check OUT
The Argentine superstar could only manage 6 goals in his debut season in Ligue 1. Though PSG managed to win their league, they failed poorly in the Champions League.
After justifying Messi’s exclusion, L’Equipe then went on to explain how Cristiano Ronaldo was nominated in the list of the 30 players. They explained that the Portuguese superstar was the star performer for his side last season. Ronaldo scored 6 important goals for Manchester United which helped the Red Devils reach the round of 16 of UCL. Ronaldo ended his season with 32 goals from 49 games across all competitions last season.
Ballon d’Or Nominations: Organizers give vague explaination on why Cristiano Ronaldo was nominated and Lionel Messi wasn’t: Check OUT
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