The past gala of the Balloon of Gold had to Alexia Putellas like one of the main winning of the night when doing with the distinction to the best player of the world in the season, adding like this his second award in this category that evidence the good level that lives the feminine football in the FC Barcelona. However, the numbers have not been of the all clear.
After knowing that the Barcelona had done with the prize, some means from England indicated that Alexia imposed by hardly a vote of difference, above Beth Piss. In total, the midfield player would have added a total of 164 ballots by 163 of the British forward, but these figures do not correspond with which has made public the magazine that awards the prize.
In accordance with 'France Football', the real quantity of votes that really has obtained Alexia has been of 178, whereas the attacker of the Arsenal reached 152, for a margin of 26. Far of both, the third place was for the Australian Sam Kerr, of Chelsea, the one who added 74 votes, completing like this the triple of the best footballers of the past season.
The formula of the Balloon of Gold
The vote is made with base in a system of points, in which the best, according to the criterion of each journalist with right to vote, receives a total of six units. The votes for the second place have a value of four points, quantity that goes descending progressively until the fifth selected that receives only a point to close the election.
The Balloon of Gold comes to change some of his criteria to take in account to award the award, in which now it has a greater value the individual performance of each footballer. Besides, the gala suffered a change in the dates, since it does not make at the beginning of the following year evaluating the performance in the natural year but during the season, that usually finish in summer.