This is a list of the teams that have the most players nominated for the Ballon d’Or. This ranking includes the teams that have more than one player nominated:
The bad year of the Italian team is not enough to remove them from this ranking. Actually the two players that are included in the list is thanks to their great Euro Cup. It’s about the usual: Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini. The two Italian center-backs are the only two players from the Bianconeri team to be nominated for the prestigious trophy.
In the case of Real Madrid there are also only two players: Karim Benzema and Luka Modric. The French, except for surprise, will finish in the highest positions of the classification, while the Croatian will be in the middle of the table. Players like Toni Kroos or Thibaut Courtois are missing.
Two other players are nominated by the champion team of the Italian league, Inter Milan. Lautaro Martínez is the first of them who was one of the key players last season to win him scudetto. The other is Nicolò Barella, who adds to that title with his club the achievement of the European Championship with the Italian team.
The last team with only two nominated players is Manchester United. In this case, the nominations have a Portuguese aroma, since the two chosen are Cristiano Ronaldo and Bruno Fernandes. Their huge 20-21 season shouldn’t be affected much by the bad start to this season.
In third place we find PSG with four players. In goal Gianluigi Donnarumma, who is the favorite to win the trophy for best goalkeeper of the year. The other three are, obviously, Leo Messi, Kylian Mbappé and Neymar. The Argentine is the favorite to win his seventh Ballon d’Or tonight.
The two remaining teams have five nominated players respectively. It happens, or causality, that they are the teams that reached the final of the Champions League. We start with Chelsea that has: Azpilicueta, Jorginho, N’Golo Kantè, Lukaku and Mason Mount.
Kanté, Mount and Azpilicueta for their incredible season in the Champions League, Lukaku is nominated for his great year in Italy and the achievement of the league in that country, while Jorginho accumulates both the Champions League trophy and the European Championship.
The other team with five nominees is Guardiola’s Manchester City: Sterling, Riyad Mahrez, Phil Foden, Rúben Dias and Kevin De Bruyne They are the lucky ones who will fight tonight to win the prestigious award. Of these five, it will surely be between Kevin De Bruyne and Rúben Dias the fight to see who is in a higher position.
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