Many were the players who deserved to be crowned the Ballon d'Or and named the "Best Player in the World" on them, but it became known that the world of the Golden Ball was "unjust and unfair", and that many considerations overlapped to crown the player with the prestigious award.
And at least there are six golden balls distributed in the last twenty years that the winner did not deserve, and the injustice of the players who presented everything in the round witch, but their names were not written in the "honor" list.
- Lionel Messi in 2010: Many of the fans of the first popular game did not know the young Argentine talent of Barcelona who scored 60 goals in the season at the time, but his team came out of the Champions League semi-final at the hands of Inter Milan, and the "Tango" team is far from Germany In the 2010 World Cup quarter-finals, however, the "Bulgas" beat the Dutchman Wesley Sneijder, who contributed to Inter Milan's triumph in the League, Cup and Champions League, and led his country to the 2010 World Cup final, before the "Windmills" team narrowly lost against Spain with a clean goal.
Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo 2013: Bayern Munich won this year four titles, including the Champions League, and was the hero of winning these French titles Franck Ribery, but the latter did not win the prize that went to the former Real Madrid star who scored 66 goals in 56 games but did not win With his team even the title of the League in time.
Czech Pavel Nedved 2003: From the most controversial and strange years, Ronaldo and Messi when they won the prize they had a huge record of goals, and if we adopt the same rule, it is assumed that the French Terry Henry will win the award because he scored 46 goals and made 26 others, but Nedved did not score At that time, he scored 20 goals, but he was awarded the prize because his team reached the Champions League final and won the Italian League title.
Portuguese Luis Figo 2000: This award Vigo apologized for obtaining it, because he did not think it was the best option to win it in the presence of stars at the time, such as the French Zinedine Zidane and the Italian Francesco Totti. The golden ball from you, you deserved it. "
Englishman Michael Owen 2001: In this year, the Spanish star Raul was in football, and he led Real Madrid to win the Champions League and won the tournament's top scorer award, but all this did not help him and win the golden ball, and the award went to Michael Owen, the Liverpool player who won local titles except the Premier League .
Italian Fabio Cannavaro 2006: Cannavaro’s victory was described by the international press as a “scandal.” No two disagree that the former captain of Italy was one of the best defenders in the 2006 World Cup crowned by “Al-Azzurri,” but also goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon and Andrea Pirlo were better than him. They contributed more to the victory of their national team in the world title, and even when Cannavaro joined Real Madrid after the World Cup he did not provide the addition, and it was a "catastrophic" contract for the Royal fans.
There are also two golden balls distributed in 2018 by Croatian Luka Modric and Messi 2019, and he asked a lot of ink about them, the first was said that Ronaldo was worth more, and the second was supposed to go to one of the Dutch Virgil Van Dyck or the Senegalese Sadio Mane du Liverpool.