Lionel Messi isn’t on the Ballon d’Or shortlist for the primary time since 2005 – as that 12 months’s listing of contenders exhibits, soccer has modified immeasurably over the course of the 17 years that the ahead has dominated the world of soccer.
It was Messi’s Barcelona team-mate Ronaldinho that received France Soccer’s prestigious golden ball that 12 months, having been at his highest in the course of the 2004-05 La Liga marketing campaign.
The Argentinian made his debut aged 17 in October 2004 and would swiftly catch the attention as one of the vital promising kids in world soccer. He obtained his first Ballon d’Or nomination in 2006, the place he completed twentieth after receiving one vote. World Cup winner Fabio Cannavaro received it that 12 months.
In 2007, Messi completed on the rostrum for the primary time, behind the winner Kaka and runner-up Cristiano Ronaldo. Messi went on to complete second, behind Ronaldo, in 2008, earlier than lifting the primary of a document seven Ballon d’Or in 2009 due to his starring function in Barcelona’s historic treble-winning 2008-09 marketing campaign.
He received it 4 years in a row, earlier than happening to elevate it once more in 2015, 2019 and 2021. He additionally completed within the prime two yearly between 2008 and 2021, aside from 2018, when Luka Modric, Ronaldo, Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappe comprised the highest 4.
Messi is the holder of the newest award, largely due to captaining Argentina to a Copa America final summer season, however he received’t be retaining the person accolade – he’s not even made the 30-man shortlist, having had a relatively underwhelming debut season at PSG. Karim Benzema is the excellent favorite to win in 2022.
“Inevitably, Lionel Messi, together with his 15 appearances in a row since 2006, his seven Ballon d’Or victories, his title holder standing, weighs very closely relating to the ultimate selection,” France Soccer’s deputy editor-in-chief Emmanuel Bojan defined.
“The Argentinian was a part of the discussions to combine the 30, however the brand new standards for the Ballon d’Or have been unfavourable to him: disappearance of the criterion of a participant’s whole profession, and new periodicity, modelled on a season of soccer and not over a calendar 12 months, which doesn’t make it attainable to combine the Copa America of July 11, 2021.
“After which, it have to be admitted that his first season in Paris was very disappointing each by way of the visible impression and the statistics.”
An entire period has come and gone since Messi final didn’t be nominated – because the listing of that 12 months’s contenders attests.
The very best participant on the planet again then, Ronaldinho, retired again in 2015.
Second-place Frank Lampard and third-place Steven Gerrard are actually managing Premier League golf equipment. Thierry Henry, Andriy Shevchenko, Andrea Pirlo, Zinedine Zidane, Wayne Rooney, Xavi Hernandez, Ruud Van Nistelrooy and Patrick Vieira are among the many different star names which have since held high-profile jobs as managers.
In the meantime, David Beckham is the president of Inter Miami, Ronaldo Nazario is now the bulk shareholder of La Liga membership Actual Valladolid, Samuel Eto’o is the president of Cameroonian FA, Juninho Pernambucano is the sporting director of Lyon, Deco is the agent of Barcelona star Raphinha and Paolo Maldini is the technical director of Serie A champions AC Milan.
Simply three gamers from that 2005 Ballon d’Or rating are nonetheless enjoying immediately – 37-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo at Manchester United, 41-year-old Zlatan Ibrahimovic at AC Milan and 44-year-old Gianluigi Buffon at Serie B membership Parma.
Right here’s the 2005 Ballon d’Or rating in full:
1. Ronaldinho
2. Frank Lampard
3. Steven Gerrard
4. Thierry Henry
5. Andriy Shevchenko
6. Paolo Maldini
7. Adriano
8. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
9. Kaka
=10. Samuel Eto
=10. John Terry
12. Juninho
13. Claude Makelele
=14. Juan Roman Riquelme
=14.Petr Cech
=14. Didier Drogba
=14. Michael Ballack
18. Zinedine Zidane
19. Gianluigi Buffon
=20. Jamie Carragher
=20. Cristiano Ronaldo
22. Michael Essien
=23. Luis Garcia
=23. Pavel Nedved
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Acquired no votes however shortlisted:
– David Beckham
– Mauro Camoranesi
– Fabio Cannavaro
– Gregory Coupet
– Cris
– Deco
– Dida
– Emerson
– Luis Figo
– Diego Forlan
– Roy Makaay
– Michael Owen
– Park Ji-sung
– Raul
– Arjen Robbem
– Roberto Carlos
– Robinho
– Ronaldo
– Wayne Rooney
– Lilian Thuram
– David Trezeguet
– Mark van Bommel
– Ruud van Nistelrooy
– Patrick Vieira
– Xavi
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