Ballon d’Or 2019 Voting breakdown? Who voted for whom? Have you ever wanted to find more about the voting process of the FIFA Ballon d’Or award before? Well, if you have then worry not because we have prepared a list of Ballon d’Or 2019 Voting breakdown.
The Ballon d’Or is an individual award organised by France Football to recognize the best talent of the year. The Ballon d’Or award is by far the biggest individual award a footballer should ever hope for during his career as a professional footballer.
During the first days the only players who were eligible to be part of the Ballon d’Or were only European players, it would then be called the best player from Europe now these days it doesn’t matter from which league or country you are playing from.
Even though it includes even countries outside Europe most players who have gone on to win the award play from European countries. Spain, Germany, England, Italy and Portugal are the countries that has produced most winners. So you could say its still a European award.
The “diverse international jury” of voters is made up of national team coaches and captains from a selection of FIFA‘s 209 national associations, in addition to “specialist journalists.” There are some surprisingly lax stipulations laid out for the voters:
Only one journalist per country may vote. They are allowed to select players who play in or are affiliated with their own country.
National team captains cannot vote for themselves, but can vote for national or club colleagues. (Bleacher report)
According to its Rules of Allocation, FIFA bestows the award “according to on-field performance and overall behavior on and off the pitch.”
The behavioral aspect is an important one, as the chosen player must have role model qualities—on and off the field. It is for this reason that we see players like Luis Suarez not winning the award despite being on top of his and everyone’s game.
Nominations are submitted by 184 coaches, 184 national captains and 173 members of the global media.
Full details of which country picked whom in the Ballon d’Or 2019 voting are out and here’s the full list:
Who won 2019 Ballon d’Or? Lionel Messi won 2019 Ballon d’Or award. He won his record sixth men’s Ballon d’Or award, beating Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk to take the honours. Third was Cristiano Ronaldo.
The list of 30 Ballon d’Or 2019 candidates has been revealed. Here is the released 30 man shortlist for the Ballon d’Or and how they finished:
Rank | Player | Club(s) | Points |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 686 | ||
2 | 679 | ||
3 | 476 | ||
4 | 347 | ||
5 | 178 | ||
6 | 89 | ||
7 | 67 | ||
8 | 44 | ||
9 | 41 | ||
10 | 33 | ||
11 | 31 | ||
12 | 30 | ||
13 | 25 | ||
14 | 14 | ||
15 | 13 | ||
16 | 12 | ||
17 | 11 | ||
18 | 9 | ||
19 | 8 | ||
20 | 5 | ||
5 | |||
22 | 4 | ||
23 | 3 | ||
24 | 2 | ||
25 | 2 | ||
26 | 1 | ||
27 | 1 | ||
28 | 0 | ||
29 | 0 | ||
30 | 0 |
For more information on the Ballon d’Or, have a look at:
Here is more about the Ballon d’Or award
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