Messi, Xavi and Andrés Iniesta, posing with the Balloon of Gold 2010

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France Football Asks "pardon" to Andrés Iniesta by not to give him a Balloon of Gold

Published:24/04/2018 - 11:05h

Updated:24/04/2018 - 15:12h

The director of the magazine commissioned to deliver annually the Balloon of Gold, Pascal Ferré, has recognised that the absence of Andrés Iniesta in the list of winners of the prestigious prize is "painful", and has asked him "pardon" by not to have him given never the award

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The director of the magazine 'France Football', Pascal Ferré, has written in the last hours an editorial, titled "Pardon Andrés", in which it has put of self-evident how much regrets the fact that the midfield player manchego of the FC Barcelona go to withdraw in the next years without a Balloon of Gold, when it could have it conquered in multiple occasions.

Had his big opportunity in 2010, after the World-wide of South Africa, when Spain heaved with the title and, previously, the FC Barcelona went back to sign a big season to level of titles and game, with Leo Messi stellar that was the one who finish carrying the prestigious prize.

Now, Pascal Ferré defines to Iniesta like the "best " facilitador of game of all time". "The majority of his contemporary complicate the life and the sight but he has amused during some fifteen years to simplify it everything. Without any bad thought vanidoso (…), but the one to do live the game", writes the director Frenchman of the magazine 'France Football', attendant to deliver annually the Balloon of Gold.

Andrés Iniesta deserved to win the Balloon of Gold

Ferré, besides, remarks the indisputable contribution of Andrés Iniesta to the hour to allow the prizes of other players, as Leo Messi: "Without him, Messi had tired much faster in the Barcelona (…). His talent is to invent it for the other". In this sense, Ferré ensures that this "absolute altruism has deprived him surely of a still greater recognition".

Because, in the delivery of the Balloon of Gold 2010, Andrés Iniesta remained classified in second position by behind Leo Messi. The French journalist, Pascal Ferré, has one of the 180 votes that attribute nowadays the famous trophy, and sees like a "anomaly" the fact that that Iniesta have not won the distinction. "Between the big absences in the list of winners of the Balloon of Gold, his is painful", concludes.

Thank you By all what have given, Andrés

And it does not be missing him reason. It will be a pity see how a myth and legend of the FC Barcelona like Andrés Iniesta abandons the club, to the term of the present season 2017-18, and leaves to China to contest there the last years of his professional career without a Balloon of Gold in his vitrinas, that would have served for homenajear a career plagada of successes, with which has turned into one of the best players of the history of the Barça and, of course, of the Spanish football together with Xavi Hernández. Thank you By everything, Andrés.

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