French magazine France Football announced today, Monday, that it will block the golden ball of the best soccer player in the world for this year.
The magazine said it would withhold the award for the first time in its history since it began in 1956 due to the exceptional circumstances and the lack of sufficient justice to choose the winner this year due to the interruption of football activity for a long period of the year for fear of an outbreak of the Coruna epidemic.
The French magazine added that the period of only two months at the beginning of the year after which the contests were suspended for several months around the world will not form a fair opinion of the best in the world, and the voters will be distracted from the award around the world, who number 220 voters.
It is noteworthy that the Argentine star Lionel Messi was the last to win the Golden Ball last year, for the sixth time in his history to set a record and break the partnership with Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo, who won it five times.