Lewandowski is luckier than Messi, Ronaldo and Salah.. Find out when the best player in the world will be announced

Polish striker Robert Lewandowski may be the favorite to win the Ballon d'Or for the best player in 2021, given the numbers he achieved with his team Bayern Munich, but the presence of Argentine Lionel Messi and Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo in the list of thirty makes them "eternal" candidates to win this title, whose identity is announced. Tomorrow, Monday.

The French magazine "France Football" included the name of the Italian and Chelsea midfielder Jorginho among the list of 30 candidates after he helped lead his London team to the European Champions League title and his country to the European Cup last summer, but his lack of the aura enjoyed by scorers such as Lewandowski, Messi and Ronaldo Or even the other "big" Egyptian candidate, Mohamed Salah, weakens his chances, except in the event of a surprise.

In the absence of Messi, who moved to Paris Saint-Germain, and Ronaldo, who returned to his former team, Manchester United, from the podium last year with their former teams Barcelona, ​​Spain and Juventus, Italy, respectively, except for winning the local cup competition, it seems the door to compete for the prestigious award is more open than Ever.

The list of thirty included Jorginho's teammate in Chelsea, French international midfielder N'Golo Kante, in addition to the Norwegian top scorer for Borussia Dortmund, Erling Haaland, Paris Saint-Germain star Kylian Mbappe and his compatriot in Real Madrid, Karim Benzema, and Belgium's Romelu Lukaku, who helped lead Inter to the Italian League title for the time. The first since 2010 before he left this summer to return to Chelsea.

The list of 30 candidates also included the two Arab stars, Salah and Algerian Riyadi Mahrez, who starred with their English teams Liverpool and Manchester City, especially the second who helped lead his team to the Premier League title and the Champions League final.

After the announcement on the eighth of October of the list of the 30 candidates, the voting phase began, in which journalists, coaches and captains of the national teams participated.

The award was canceled last year due to the repercussions of the Corona virus, so that the title remains in the possession of Messi, the record holder with six titles, who decided to embark on a new adventure this season by leaving Barcelona to defend the colors of Saint Germain, similar to his rival Ronaldo, the five-time winner who decided to leave Juventus to return to Manchester United.

The cancellation of the award last year deprived Lewandowski of this honor after his wonderful season with Bayern Munich, to be satisfied with winning the title of the International Federation "FIFA" for the best player.

But he will have a good chance again, especially after he became the first player in the history of the German League to score 41 goals during the season, breaking the record set by the late "gunner" Gerd Muller (40 goals in the 1971-1972 season).

Lewandowski's teammate at Bayern Thomas Muller said that the title "should go to Levi, especially when you see the way he plays at the moment," referring to the 33-year-old's brilliance this season also by scoring 25 goals in 20 games he played. With the Bavarian club in all competitions.

It is true that Messi and Ronaldo won 11 of the last 12 titles, only the 2018 title that went to the benefit of Real Madrid star and Croatian national team Luka Modric after leading his team to the Champions League title and his country to the World Cup final, but "Robert deserves to win it because he was, In my opinion, he is more stable, and incredibly, than any other player,” his coach at Bayern, Julian Nagelsmann, told the Bavarian newspaper “Abendzeitung”.

Messi the permanent candidate

But Messi's presence as a competitor is always a threat to any player, especially after he bid farewell to Barcelona last season by scoring 30 goals in the league and after breaking the jinx that afflicted him with the Argentine national team, led by the latter to the Copa America title at the expense of the Brazilian rival.

For Messi, "the biggest prize for me is what I was able to achieve with the national team," according to what the Catalan sports newspaper "Sport" recently reported, adding, "After I fought and fought for a long time to achieve something (with the national team), (the Copa America title) was the best. me because of the price (the effort) for which it was paid.”

"If I win the Ballon d'Or, it will be amazing what it means to win it again. Winning it for the seventh time would be crazy."

Lewandowski and Messi face competition from Ronaldo, who aspires to regain the award he won for the fifth and final time in 2017, but the failure he achieved with his former team Juventus last season, whether at the continental or local level, weakens his chances of catching up with rival Messi.

After a wonderful season with Real Madrid, Ronaldo's former colleague Benzema imposed himself as a candidate for the award, at least for his former coach Zinedine Zidane, his compatriot, former top scorer Thierry Henry, or even the Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal.

But the French star was sentenced this week to a one-year suspended prison sentence in connection with the case of his former teammate Matteo Valbuena's sex tape, and he was also fined 75,000 euros, which morally weakens his chances of winning the award.

Among the women, Barcelona captain Alexia Botías, winner of the UEFA Women's Player of the Year award, is a candidate to succeed the American Megan Rapinoe, who was crowned in 2019, but she is not present this year even among the 20 candidates.

Botías competes with her colleagues in the Catalan club, Jennifer Hermoso and the Dutchwoman, Leakey Martens, after their contribution to leading Barcelona to the Champions League title, while Australian Sam Kerr leads five candidates from Chelsea to succeed Rapinoe in a competition with Canadian Christine Sinclair (Portland Thorns, USA), who led her country to gold. Tokyo Olympics last summer.

Ten players are competing for the Cuban Award for Best Young Player, including the Englishmen Jude Bellingham, Mason Greenwood, Bacayo Saka and Spaniard Badri, and 10 guards for the Yashin Prize, including Italian Gianluigi Donnarumma, German Manuel Neuer and Belgian Thibaut Courtois.

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