because it’s the Oscars of footballmaybe they should add a Best Supporting Player award
>>140383122Seems unfair because the Balon D'or is supposed to go to the best player in the world. Not the best attacking player.
>>140383034Because they want to make celebrities.
why do people care about some french media award?
Don't they?
>>140383137>>140383139Would that imply that players are chosen based on favouritism instead of merit?
>>140383181'fraid so
>>140383034ahem
>>140383154What year and what's his position?
>>140383034Not flashy enough. A defender can win 99 duels with a striker, the striker has to win one and everyone will say the defender didn't have him under control. The best sliding tackle ever will only get 1/1000 of the clicks of a random goal or a dribbling. The Ballon D'Or is a popularity contest, nothing more. How can you compare players of certain roles in different teams, let alone different positions, and leagues? Also keep in mind who votes on this shit. This award cannot be taken seriously, especially now that is independent from FIFA again. It's an award handed out by a French newspaper. All it does say is that the winner is one of the best players in the world with a lot of fame, it's not capable of determining the best player of that year - let alone the best player ever by the grace of having more Ballon D'Or's than others. That also adds the most retarded axis of comparison possible: different eras.
>>140383228Lol what is this
>>140383230do zoomers really not know who the fuck Cannavaro is?
>tf>tp
>>140383230Fabio Cannavaro, 2006, defender, centreback. Now get that: he won because he was the captain of Italy's World Cup winning team. The 2006 World Cup final was decided on penalties. Let's say Italy would have lost the penalty shootout without him doing anything wrong - would he have won the Ballon D'Or? His performance would have been 100% identical. We'll never find out whether he would have won, but let's just say there is reason to doubt it. How can you separate team performance (and especially team "glory") from individual performance? Football is a team sport and everyone has their role to fill
>>140383181yes
>>140383375The Ronaldo/Messi era stopped the WC success = Baloon door era, then it went and came back right as the two were declining and Messi got another
>>140383034Because the best players are strikers or midfielders in some cases. They have more pressure to perform than defenders and goalkeepers.
>>140383614I'd argue its harder to be a goalkeeper
>>140383553>2010Messi in GOAT mode and Xavi and Iniesta split their votes>2014The only star player for Germany was Neuer and the last time they gave a GK the ballon d'Or was like 60 years ago>2018Modric won based on his WC performance, so you're wrong about it being Messi who changed it back to WC form
>>140383711>modric wins in the year that Ronaldo deserved it Hmmm
>>140383836>Ronaldo deserved it for disappearing in the CL final and ghosting in the WC while Portugal get eliminatedOk m8
>>140383711>Messi in GOAT modeno major trophies won, disastrous world cupbayern/neuer got trashed in the CLModric won only because of the rape thing about ronaldo
>>140384959The truth is journalists were shitscared of risking ronaldo ending up with more ballon d'ors than messi.
>>140383836Of all the penaldog dillusions I find this to be the strangest one. There is nothing that pendu achieved that year that Modrić didn't, while Modrić led a country with a population smaller than Portugal to their first WC final.
>>140385071Statpadding against farmer teams in La Liga and winning no major trophies.
>>140385071this is the dumbest pic I have ever seen, eibarman did jackshit of not in the cl and the wc that year.
>>140385336The league is a major trophy
>>140383181Yes, Modric won only because he led his team to WC finals when either Ronaldo or Grease-man should have won that year.
>>140383034talented players rarely become defenders or goalkeepers
