This week have published the 30 candidates to carry the Balloon of Gold in this year 2019 and the staff of the Real Madrid has suffered the consequences of a disastrous campaign to collective level. The whites remained very far to be able to win one of the three big titles -Champions League, League or Glass of Rey- and this has seen also reflected to individual level.
The past season, the Real Madrid beat the record of his history regarding candidates to win the Balloon of Gold, since had eight nominated, and finally carried the prize Luka Modric, that in addition to his temporadón with the white team finish being runner-up of the world with the selection of Croatia. This campaign, the leadership merengue has dissipated totally in the prize of France Football.
Karim Benzema is the only footballer of the staff of the Real Madrid that has been selected like candidate by his merits like player madridista. The another, Eden Hazard, is nominated to the Balloon of Gold by his big season in Chelsea, changing of airs the past summer but, for the moment, without a big influence in the team.
This 2019, the white shines by his absence in the list of 30. Especially striking is the case of Modric that, does a year, as we have commented, carried the Balloon of Gold and that now does not appear not even between the 30 candidates. Neither usual players in this candidature like Sergio Bouquets, Toni Kroos or Gareth Bleat appear.
The true is that this list for the Balloon of Gold is the raw reflection of the season that did the Real Madrid. It is true that Benzema seems to be in his best months since it landed in Santiago Bernabéu, but andl French is of the few that throws of the car in the team of Zinedine Zidane, that has not begun the better season of what finish it.
Delicate situation in Madrid
The Real Madrid is in a worrisome sportive crisis marked by the bad results so much in LaLiga as in the Champions League. In the national championship, the whites lost against the Mallorca and yielded the leadership to the Barça, whereas in Europe need to add his first victory to scare the ghosts of a hypothetical elimination.