Paris - The 64th edition of the Golden Ball prize will be held in Paris on Monday evening.
Aside from the war of leaks that settled the award for Argentine star Lionel Messi, we look at the next paragraphs on the system and how to choose the winner of the award awarded by France Football magazine since 1956.
The award went through a number of stages throughout its history, and was initially awarded only to European players, and then became a progress for players who are active in Europe before opening it to compete against all players from different regions of the world.
There have also been changes in the way the winner was selected, especially during the period when the prize was awarded in partnership between FIFA and the French magazine between 2010 and 2016, where national team coaches, leaders and journalists were involved in determining the winner.
After the return of the prize to France Football and the separation of FIFA with its own prize, it became confined to journalists in choosing the winner of the Golden Ball.
A journalist from each country is selected to arrange a list of five players from a list of 30 candidates identified by the magazine.
Players receive points according to their rankings, with the player at the top of the list receiving six points and his runner-up four, then three points for the third, two points for the fourth and one point for the fifth.
In case of a tie in points between more than one player is used to refer to the number of times the name of the player in the first place, and if the tie continues to count the presence times in the second place, and then calculate the presence times in the third place if the tie continues, to organize a special referendum between the draws to choose The winner is one of them, if not decided through the previous steps.