The 3 finalists to the Balloon of Gold 2014 will know this Monday (17:00 hours)

This Monday 1 December to the 17.00 hours will give to know the names of the three aspiring players to achieve the Balloon of Gold 2014, for which Cristiano Ronaldo, Manuel Neuer and Leo Messi split with clear advantage. In theory the period that judges goes of the past 30 November 2013 until 21 November 2014, a fact that without place to doubts does not favour in at all to the candidature of Leo Messi, due to the fact that his two records goleadores harvested recently in League and Champions arrived exceeded the limit of vote. On the contrary of what sucedió the past year, when the FIFA decided to expand the terms of the votes, this time there is not more time to vote. Definitely, a very controversial measure that puts directly under suspicion the results of the previous edition and puts in entredicho the Balloon of Gold won by Cristiano.

In addition to knowing to the three applicants to the prize, will know also to the three candidates to the Prize Puskas (Better goal of the Year) and to the three feminine candidates to the Balloon of Gold, in addition to the finalists in the section of trainers. Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neuer are the favourites to the most prestigious award, but in the list of 23 finalists appear also other names of weight like the champions of the world Kroos, Thomas Müller, Lahm, Götze and Schweinsteiger or the winners of the Champions with the Real Madrid Sergio Bouquets, Benzema, Bleat and Gave María.

The two historical records beaten by Leo Messi in so only four days have reopened the debate on who deserves the Balloon of Gold of 2014. The bad luck for the Argentinian star of the FC Barcelona is that the term to vote finish the past 21 November, just a day before it surpassed the record of Telmo Zarra at most goleador of the League, and four before it left backwards to Raúl González in the list of scorers of the Champions.

The term of vote of the FIFA already is immovable although it was expanded the past season. Then, Cristiano Ronaldo was the big benefited, since a "hat-trick" in the repechage of the World-wide between Portugal and Sweden allowed him possibly win some votes more in an end in which it finish awarding his second Balloon of Gold to the detriment of Ribéry and Messi.

It is necessary to remember, however, that in that occasion the decision took after the president of the FIFA, Joseph Blatter, parodiara to Cristiano Ronaldo in a scene grotesca that gave the turn to the world and generated reactions airadas by part of the Real Madrid.