Ballon d'Or 2023 | Haaland finishes 2nd

[City & Blue Brazil]

Full Ballon d'Or votes from every country revealed as SIX countries didn't vote for Lionel Messi

Lionel Messi beat Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappe to win the 2023 Ballon d'Or award.

www.sportbible.com

Now it's clear, England and Germany both voted for Messi to win it.
Also Argentina voted for Messi as number one, while not voting Haaland even in the top 5.

Just rediculus

Scotland Wales Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland also all voted for Messi. Who makes the decision in England to vote for Messi, anyone know?

 

[Chi-town blues]

Scotland Wales Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland also all voted for Messi. Who makes the decision in England to vote for Messi, anyone know?

ex rags and ex dippers .

 

[Phil1]

U.K. media being fawning cunts. Who knew…

 

[Coatigan]

Scotland Wales Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland also all voted for Messi. Who makes the decision in England to vote for Messi, anyone know?

One prominent joutnalist from each countey. Henry Winter from England. He wrote a whole article on why he coted messi. Pretty much last hurrah and world cup romance.

 

[TueartsCossackSpray]

Scotland Wales Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland also all voted for Messi. Who makes the decision in England to vote for Messi, anyone know?

Yes, Henry Winter! Amazing that he voted for Owen though in 2001 giving the reason he won League cup, fa cup, super cup and the Community shied.
Yes what an absolute bitter wakner that disingenuous unsavoury weasel is.

 

[don84]

Scotland Wales Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland also all voted for Messi. Who makes the decision in England to vote for Messi, anyone know?

It was life-long Liverpool supporter Henry Winter voting on behalf for England..

Graphic shows how every journalist voted in the 2023 Ballon d’Or - some of them are so bizarre

Cameroon - Didn't include Messi or Haaland in his top five Ivory Coast - Gave second place to Osimhen

www.givemesport.com

 

[River Plate]

You are the only one on this thread being emotionally dishonest.
Argentina lost a match and then won the final on penalties.
No one is disagreeing that Messi is a great player, maybe the best of all time, but not this season.
He didn't win that World Cup on his own.

Nobody wins anything on their own. Messi was, by far, Argentina's best player though, and there's no chance they would have won it all without him.

 

[River Plate]

Messi in 2022 was worse than DAM in 1994.

It was called the European player of the year back in DAM's main era, and he wouldn't have pissed on it.

Hahaha what? Maradona was kicked away in '94 for being a cheating junkie.

 

[River Plate]

what about zidane in 98? Pele in 1958? Mbappe in 2018?

Zidane and Mbappe didn't even win the Golden Ball of those WC's (Brazilian Ronaldo in 98 and Modric in 18). I didn't see Pele in 58.

 

[River Plate]

And for that, he was given the appropriate award, the World Cup Player of the Tournament. Doesn't mean he should get the Ballon D'or too, and be rewared twice for one good tournament.

Anyway, it was always inevitable, and I said it as far back as this thread goes. It is not right, but it is what it is, a goodbye award to a player that has retired from football with the one trophy he was missing.

Here are Messi's and Haaland's numbers for the 22/23 season:

Messi has literally better numbers while winning the same but with the bigger trophy. It would have been fair for either guy to win. I can't understand why would anyone scream "robbery" on this scenario.