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The FIFA Balloon of gold, ready to disappear

Published:16/09/2016 - 00:44h

Updated:16/09/2016 - 00:45h

The new president of the FIFA, Gianni Infantino, would be the main culprit that the trophy to better player of the world, as we know it from 2010, leave to exist. The conversations in this regard they are quite pessimistic

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Capital surprise the one who arrives from Swiss after revealing that the FIFA could put an end, six years afterwards to the hybrid of prize that formed the past 2010 to choose to the best player of the world, and that at present designates FIFA Balloon of Gold. A fusion of the previous FIFA World Player that awarded the FIFA and the Balloon of Gold, prize given from 1956 by the prestigious French magazine "France Football". 

The problem roots in that for now, and as they have informed the Catalan sportive press, there is not agreement to day of today to prolong the agreement between the FIFA and the Group Amaury, owner of "L'Instrument" and "France Football", so that it follow from the next year. An information that aims directly to the president of the FIFA, Gianni Infantino, that would want to go back to a prize that the maximum organism of the football.

Since it joined and only it existed a prize to choose to the best player of the world, varied have been the things that have gone modifying in this regard, by what does to his original meaning and to the method of election. Happening of the best player of Europe by part of a group of journalists, originally of "France Football", to the apparition of a jury with the important participation inthe s votes of the captains and seleccionadores of the countries of all the world.

It fits to stand out that since both prizes joined in one only, only two footballers have been awarded with this. The goleada here is capital as Lionel Messi has raised in four occasions the prize by the two of Cristiano Ronaldo. Thus, and although the luso can win the one of this edition, never will be able to already reach to the rosarino.

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