Most of us have waited for this night to be able to watch Karim Benzema win his first Ballon D’or. I am sure I am part of the people who are happy Messi and Ronaldo are finally not in contention to win it. With the way the 2 of them have been performing this season too I don't think they can win it next year.
Before the top 10 finalists were revealed, the top 30 were revealed. Ronaldo was the only player between Messi and Ronaldo to make it into the final 30 after Messi didn't make it. Ronaldo was placed 20th.
In the 25th place was Cancelo of Manchester City, Kimmich of Bayern Munich, Maignan of Ac Milan, Rudiger of Real Madrid, Nunez of Liverpool, and Nkunku of Leipzig. In 22nd place was Trent of Liverpool, Foden of City, Silva of City, and Kane of Spurs. In 20th was Ronaldo. In the 17th was Diaz of Liverpool, Vlahovic of Juventus and Casemiro of Man United. In 16th was Van Dijk of Liverpool.
In the 14th spot was Leao of Ac Milan and Fabinho of AC Milan. In the 13th was Haller of Dortmund. 12th was Mahrez of City. 11th was Son of Spurs. I have a lot of questions about the top 20 rankings. I've never really rated the Ballan D’or awards ceremony but when they bring out the rankings, we have to talk about it.
Imagine Casemiro being 17th and Fabinho in the 14th spot. After Casemiro won 4 trophies before making his move to United. I will never understand how Casemiro has been ranked 17th instead of giving him a better ranking. This ranking doesn’t annoy me as much as the top 10. Let’s look at the top 10 ranking.
Haaland of city was ranked 10th. Modric of Real Madrid was ranked 9th. With his team mate Vini Jnr ranked 8th. Courtois of Real Madrid was ranked 7th. Mbappe of PSG was ranked 6th. With Sallah ranking 5th. Lewandowski of Barcelona was ranked 4th
With Kevin De Bruyne raking third. The 2nd was Mane and then the winner was Benzema.
To be sincere I was expecting Madrid players to be in the top 5 spot. If we can all remember clearly it was Courtois, Vini and Benzema who carried the whole Madrid team till they won what ever they won last season. I don’t argue with Mane being the second cause he did well for his club and country. Kevin De Bruyne in the third position surprised me cause he missed almost half of the season last season. He was in and out of the squad mostly and was fully fit in the second round of matches in their league. If not for anything I expected Courtois to be in the top 5 at least.
Vini is still young but that doesn’t mean he didn’t deserve a better position. Sallah did great but in the second round of fixtures he started to slow down. The only joy I had for the night was Courtois winning the best keeper award and Benzema winning the Ballan D’or. The club of the year award sure surprised a lot of people too to see Manchester City as the winner. Manchester City is a great club but there is no way in this world that they are better than Madrid hence I don't think they deserved that trophy.
Anyways it's too late to be complaining about the ceremony cause it's gone. I sew a tweet where someone said Benzema is lucky to have been so ahead of the pack, if not he would have been the favorite and still not win it.
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