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Lionel Messi deserves to win Ballon d’Or, admits Cristiano Ronaldo

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Cristiano Ronaldo says that Lionel Messi is the favourite to win this year’s Ballon d’Or, also known as the European Footballer of the Year award. (The winner will be announced on December 1; Ronaldo is the current holder of the title)

In an interview with France Football magazine, C-Ron said: “Messi is the favourite. Why not him? If he wins it, it will be well deserved.”

“The favorite is a player from Barcelona,” he added. “To win a trophy like this, you need to have won collective trophies, a league title, the Champions League. That’s why many players from Barcelona could win it.”

Why, that’s mighty big of Ron. Perhaps moving to Madrid has taken an edge off his arrogance?

After the jaw-dropping season Barcelona had in 2008/09, it would appear that Messi is a shoo-in for the award, and deservedly so – though he’s in competition against five Barca team-mates in the voting: Xavi Hernandez, Thierry Henry, Andres Iniesta, Yaya Toure and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

My top three (all Barcelona):

1. Lionel Messi

2. Andres Iniesta

3. Xavi Hernandez

What is your top three folks?

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Posted in Featured, Opinion, Real Madrid | 9 Comments »

By Ollie Irish on October 20th, 2009 in Featured, Opinion, Real Madrid. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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9 Responses to “Lionel Messi deserves to win Ballon d’Or, admits Cristiano Ronaldo”

  1. alex d says:
    October 20, 2009 at 2:27 pm

    although not proven yet, id look to see rooney show up to play coming off his injury

  2. roy kean says:
    October 20, 2009 at 2:59 pm

    1. Didier Drogba/Frank Lampard
    2. Xavi Hernandez
    3. Andrey Arshavin/Cesc Fabregas

  3. eamongomez says:
    October 20, 2009 at 6:51 pm

    1st iniesta, 2nd messi, 3rd torres…. sayn dat as a utd fan

  4. Leo says:
    October 20, 2009 at 8:52 pm

    1. Arshavin
    2. Drogba
    3. Messi

  5. Michael says:
    October 21, 2009 at 1:09 am

    Likely outcome:

    1. Messi
    2. Ronaldo
    3. Xavi

    The best three players right now:

    1. Fabregas
    2. Ronaldo
    3. Drogba

  6. Sven says:
    October 21, 2009 at 10:15 am

    Ronaldo
    Ibrahimovic
    Arshavin

  7. Imran says:
    October 21, 2009 at 1:00 pm

    I reckon it may be
    1.Messi
    2.Ronaldo/Iniesta
    3.Xavi

    I think Xabi Alonso & Fabregas will be serious contendors for next ballondor
    (Man utd Fan)

  8. Shit Lookalikes: Lionel Messi and Doug Fieger » Who Ate all the Pies says:
    November 9, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    [...] Lionel Messi plays for Barcelona. He’s quite good. [...]

  9. Anonymous says:
    November 12, 2009 at 6:09 am

    1 Ronaldo
    2 Kaka
    3 Casillas
    4 Sergio Ramos
    5 Raul
    6 Higuain
    7 Rooney
    8 Pepe
    9 arbeloa
    10 raul albiol
    11 xabi alonso
    12 guti
    13 Messi

    haha messi is 13th

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