So the results of the Ballon d'Or have been published, and no surprise to anyone Cristiano Ronaldo won it, and by quite a margin too. For anyone unaware of what the Ballon d'Or, it is a French Magazine's award for the (supposed) best player in the world, with a panel of 96 journalists voting on who they want to win. The results of this years came back as such:
I know I'm going to piss some of you United/Premiership fans off here, but I don't believe the right man won the award. True, Ronaldo had a great season last year, well except for going missing at the Euro Championship, but 42 goals speaks for itself. However, having watched probably more La Liga football than Premiership games, having Messi in second and giving him half the points of Ronaldo is scandalous. In my opinion Messi is the best player in the world, and by quite a bit from Ronaldo. Seriously, on his day I would class Kaka as being better than Ronaldo. For one thing, Ronaldo doesn't turn up for the big games a la Barca in the semi's last season, games in the Euro's, games against Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool. True he may have scored in some of these games, but scoring goals alone doesn't make you great.
So I await the abuse for that part and hope maybe a few of you agree that Messi is a better player.
Secondly, where on the list is Andreas Iniesta, cracking player who is the driving force of Barca, and makes Xavi twice the player he is.