Leo Messi, raising his fifth Balloon of Gold in the Camp Nou

It CAN WIN MESSI THE PRIZE?

Already there is date for the list of 30 applicants to the Balloon of Gold

Published:9/10/2016 - 21:44h

Updated:9/10/2016 - 21:44h

Already it knows the date in which they will go out to the light the 30 players selected to aspire to the Balloon of Gold 2016. As it comes being usual from does years, Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will go back to be the big favourites

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The next 25 October will know the definite list of 30 applicants to the Balloon of Gold 2016, the individual prize more prestigious of the world of the football, and is foreseen that in this list go back to be present Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, those who a year more will be the big candidates to conquer the award in his sixtieth first edition.

Of the 30 applicants revealed by "France Football" will go out the winner in the new stage of the prize, after the FIFA have decided to break the links with the magazine to the hour to deliver the prize, that kept from the year 2010, when the trophy began to call FIFA Ballon D'Or.

This new Balloon of Gold will give to final of year and no in January, as it was used to to do from six years ago, and also will be an only sworn the one who vote to the winner, composed by the journalists of the magazine and no by seleccionadores neither captains of the distinct selections of the world.

Finally, another of the big novelties is that there will be previous podium of the Balloon of Gold, but the jury will vote on the definite list of 30 players, and from here will go out directly the winner to final of year, being this a gala of celebration much more austere that the one of the last years.

It does some weeks made public the "divorce" between the FIFA and "France Football" by what does to the delivery of the prize FIFA Balloon of Gold. It can that it no longer have so much "bass drum" mediático, but what is clear is that it will follow awarding prestige to the final winner. It will be Messi?

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