Questioning the results and an attack on the criteria on which the Golden Ball is awarded, to the extent that football fans described the award presented this year as favoring the Argentine star Lionel Messi.
However, the French magazine "France Football", which presents the prestigious award, published detailed results for the points obtained by the top ten candidates, and the fierce competition was clear between the winning Messi and the Polish Robert Lewandowski, the second-placed Bayern Munich striker, who was nominated by most experts, analysts and even The fans to win the award due to the numbers achieved by “Liva” in 2021.
The remarkable thing in the ranking is that the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and the Egyptian Mohamed Salah scored a very small number of points compared to the first three places.
10- Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Donna Roma (Paris Saint-Germain): 37 points
9- Frenchman Kylian Mbappe (Saint-Germain): 58 points
8- Belgian Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City): 73 points
7- Egyptian Mohamed Salah (Liverpool): 121 points
6- Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester City): 178 points
5- Frenchman N'Golo Kante (Chelsea): 186 points
4- French Karim Benzema (Real Madrid): 239 points
3- Italian Jorginho (Chelsea): 460 points
2 - Poland's Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich): 580 points
1- Argentine Lionel Messi (PSG): 613 points