Messi and Ronaldo they kept all the Ballon d’Or from 2008 to 2019, except for 2018 which went to Luka Modric. However… Without these aliens, who would have won them?
Cristiano Ronaldo won his first Ballon d’Or in 2008 with 446 points and Lionel Messi was 2nd with 281. Without them, Fernando Torres, who never stopped scoring goals in Liverpoolwould have won the award: it reached 179 points in the vote.
That of 2009 was the first prize for Lionel Messi (473 points), which left CR7 in 2nd place (233). Behind them was Xavi Hernández, the Barca midfielder with 170 points. Didn’t he deserve to have one in his showcase?
In this year Messi returned to become the best player in the world with 22.65% of the votes, Cristiano barely reached 6th place. Therefore, without the Argentine, the winner would have been the Brainwho ranked 2nd with 17.36%.
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Messi and Cristiano were again 1 and 2 (47.88% and 21.60% of the votes respectively). Without them Xavi would have lifted the Ballon d’Or again (9.23%).
While Messi won his fourth Ballon d’Or with 41.60% of the votes and CR7 followed him with 23.68%, Andrés Iniesta sneaked onto the podium with 10.91%.
Ronaldo won the Ballon d’Or again in 2013 (27.99% of the votes) beating Lio Messi (24.72%). Franck Ribery of Bayern Munich would have won its first prize – it was third with 23.36% of the votes – if it did not compete with aliens.
The Portuguese was elected Golden Ball in the year of the World Cup in Brazil with 37.66% of the votes. In 2nd place appeared Messi with 15.76% and very close the German world champion goalkeeper in the Maracana with 15.72%. Neuer was the closest to repeating what Lev Yashin did, the only goalkeeper ever awarded the Ballon d’Or.
2015 was the year that saw Neymar stand on the podium for the first time in the fight for the Ballon d’Or with 7.86% of the votes. Messi was first (41.33%) and Cristiano, second (27.76%)
In 2016 the winner was once again Ronaldo, who won his 4th Ballon d’Or with 47.85% of the votes. Behind was Messi with 20.30% and if the two of them had not been there, the Frenchman would have won, who was third with 12.72%.
Neymar would have won his second Ballon d’Or in 2017 had the two world football stars of the last decade not been there. Ronaldo won his 5th Ballon d’Or (33.83%), Messi was second (23.96%) and the Brazilian, third with 12.91%.
In 2018, Luka Modric broke with the Messi-Ronaldo hegemony and won the first Ballon d’Or for a player other than the two of them since Kaká in 2007. In 2019, the award would have gone to the Dutch defender Liverpool who was behind Messi by only 0.25% of the votes (24.23% against 24.11%).
After an unceremonious 2020 due to COVID-19, the Ballon d’Or was celebrated again with the custom of Lionel Messi raising it and this time the Pole Lewandowski behind him. The goals in Bayern were not enough to dethrone The flea.
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