Because Messi won and not Lewandowski?

The Golden Ball announced changes

The prestigious magazine announced that from now on the selection will not be based on a calendar year, but according to the player's achievements in each season (August to July) and the number of voters has been significantly reduced

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11/03/2022

Friday, March 11, 2022, 5:48 p.m.

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Sports Weekly Summary 1, 10.3 (Sports1)

Lionel Messi won his seventh Golden Ball at the end of 2021, a choice that has been remembered around the world.

There is no doubt that Flea is one of the best players in the world (if not the best of them all), but the prevailing opinion was that Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski deserved more than anyone else to win an award for his numbers and achievements in 2021.

Today (Friday) the prestigious French magazine "France Football" announced changes in the method and selection of the winner, changes that will take effect this year and of course will affect future winners, but now the European media wonder if the changes were not made solely in light of the "wrong" choice of Messi, as That many have argued and still claim today.

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If the change had been made earlier, he would not have won the seventh ball.

Messi (Photo: Reuters)

The Golden Ball is the most prestigious football award founded in 1956 and to this day the selection of the player of the year was based on a calendar year, from January to December, when voters were journalists from all over the world, from all FIFA member countries. The gold that only the representatives of the countries in the 1st to 100th places in the FIFA rankings will be allowed to vote, with the change stemming from a desire to restrict the votes of the "small" countries, which sometimes do not really take into account sporting achievements.

Apparently, if the change had been made a year earlier, Robert Lewandowski would have been ahead of Lionel Messi and won his first golden ball - Lewandowski got 30 points more than Messi if you do not count the votes of the representatives of the countries outside the first hundred places.

Who will win the Golden Ball in 2022? (Photo: GettyImages, FRANCK FIFE)

The organizers of the competition also announced that the player's past achievements and career will no longer be considered only in that specific season, another change that may sharpen dissatisfaction with the fact that Messi won this year even though he was far from his peak compared to previous seasons. Muhammad Salah from Liverpool.

Since from now on the selection will not be according to a calendar year, the votes will be based solely on the sporting achievements of the players from August to July.

Part of the significance of the change is that the 2022 World Cup next winter in Qatar will also not be considered in the votes for the 2022 Golden Ball Award, but only in the award to be awarded in 2023.

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