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Lionel Messi Won Ballon d’Or

December 2nd, 2009 | Author: RQ
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Ballon d’Or awards which also known as The Golden Ball is referred to the European Footballer of the Year award. 96 journalists from all around the world will pick their top 5 players from a shortlist of 30 players which performed brilliantly over the last 12 months, which 5 points will be awarded to their first choice, 4 points to their second choice and so on.

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Lionel Messi break the highest score since the inception of the award by scoring 473 points from a possible of 480 points. It meant that at least 89 of the journalists picked Lionel Messi as their first choice to win the award. The winning margin between winner L.Messi and runner-up C.Ronaldo is 240, the highest points gap aparts the top 2 place in history too. 2nd runner-up Xabi scored 170, 63 points behind C.Ronaldo.

On a years without World Cup and European Championships, the players from European Champion League winning club will have slight advantage ahead the rest. Just like the previous 2 years where the Ballon d’Or goes to the player from Champion League winning club, C.Ronaldo from Manchester United in 08/09 and Kaka from AC Milan in 07/08.

Other than winning European Champion League, Barcelona also completed a treble, by winning both Spanish La Liga and Copa del Rey. Barcelona became the first team in Spanish history to win three competitions in the same season. This see why3 players out of the top 4 came from Barcelona, with 4th place go to Andre Iniesta(149) and 5th place go to former Barcelona Striker Samuel Eto’o(75) who also part of the Champion League winning team, bagged 30 goals in Spanish La Liga for Barcelona last season before moving to Inter Milan as part of a trade of Ibrahimovic deal.

Lionel Messi is the first Argentinam to win the prestigious Ballon d’Or award. Messi, 22, is the sixth Barcelona player to take the award following Luis Suárez(1960), Johan Cruyff(1973, 1974), Hristo Stoichkov(1994), Rivaldo(1999) and Ronaldinho(2005) picked up the awards. Previously, Lionel Messi received second runner-up in 2007, then runner-up in 2008, and goes 1 better again this year to win the award.

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Lionel Messi has improved tremendously after manager Josep Guardiola take charged in Nou Camp in the beginning of 08/09 season. A clear example will be Barcelona vs Man Utd in the Champion League semi-final in 07/08 season where Messi was completely being shut down and eventually Barcelona lost 1-0 to Man Utd. Last season, we saw a repeat of Barcelona vs Man Utd again, but its was the Champion League final this time round, and Messi went on to score the 2nd goal for Barcelona to win 2-0 against Man Utd.

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