BASED ON THE NEW CRITERIA
The reason why Messi was not nominated for the Ballon d'Or and Cristiano was
Published:13/08/2022 - 17:26h
Updated:13/08/2022 - 17:26h
The list of nominees for the Ballon d'Or has sparked controversy in the absence of Lionel Messi. From France they have explained why the Argentine has not been taken into account for the award
Recently, the magazine 'France Football' has desvelado the list of 30 applicants to the Balloon of Gold, that has called the attention by the absence of Lionel Messi, the winner of the past edition and a very recurrent name in the lists to choose to the best player of the world at the end of the year. However, these reasons have been exposed by part of the press gala.
The newspaper 'L'Équipe' has indicated that, in accordance with the new rule for the award, the performance showed by the ex captain of the FC Barcelona has not cost him appear in the list of 30 players. The Argentinian lived a difficult first season with Paris Saint-Germain, marking only six so many and suffering a hard elimination in the Champions to hands of the Real Madrid after splitting like one of the big favourites to the title.
Likewise, they have described like disappointing his first course in the French football. In accordance with the half, this bajón in the performance would be product of his surprising exit of the Barcelona team at the beginning of August of 2021: "An unpleasant impression that part of Leo had remained in Barcelona, his frequency of stride, his determination".
The reasons to nominate to Cristiano
Regarding the Portuguese, the merits reached during the previous season himself have cost him the nomination. Cristiano Ronaldo jumped to the field in 38 opportunities. In them it marked 24 goals and gave three assistances, although such registers were insufficient to obtain some title in the first season of his second cycle in the United, in addition to not to classify for the Champions.
In specific, 'L'Équipe' has stood out the goals of 'CR7' in the Champions that carried to the mancunianos until the eighth of final of the past edition of the continental tournament and the two 'hat-tricks' that signed in the Premier League. Of this way, 'France Football' would be acting in fulfillment of his three criteria: "The exert individual and the character resolutivo and impactante of the contendientes, the collective performance and the record accumulated during the season, and the class of the player and his sense of the clean game".
