How did you question Leo Messi's golden ball? 2021 Ballon d'Or

Juventus Italian coach Max Allegri considers Lionel Messi worthy of receiving the 2021 Golden Ball.

The 2021 Ballon d’Or ceremony took place two nights ago and Lionel Messi won the award for the seventh time in his career.

Many believe that this year the title should have belonged to Robert Lewandowski, but Max Allegri opposed this theory and described Lionel Messi as the best player in the world.

“Voters voted for Messi and he should be considered the most technically strong player in the world, but I do not know how some people judge and question that,” said Max Allegri.

The current situation of Juventus?

Naturally, we will have ups and downs. I still know the players and they get to know my thoughts and we play once every three days. We reached the first goal by advancing to the Champions League and now we will have a little more time in training. Being at Juventus has been very rewarding for us, so now is the time to feel responsible and respond to the club. We need to focus more, because we have lost many times against small clubs this season.

Everything changes, people come and go, but Juventus stays and always will. I accepted the challenge because I knew I had a difficult task ahead of me. “Now we have to accept the responsibility of being at Juventus and the ambition to reach the highest possible goal.”

What is FIFA Ballon d’Or ?

The FIFA Ballon d’Or (“Golden Ball”) was an annual association football award presented to the world’s best men’s player from 2010 to 2015.

Awarded jointly by FIFA and France Football, the prize was a merger of the FIFA World Player of the Year award and the Ballon d’Or, the two most prestigious individual honours in world football.

Unlike the Ballon d’Or awarded by France Football, the FIFA Ballon d’Or, was not awarded based on votes from international journalists, but votes from national team coaches and captains, who selected the players they deemed to have performed the best in the previous calendar year.

The six editions of the FIFA Ballon d’Or were dominated by Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, as part of their ongoing rivalry.

Messi, who played for Barcelona, won the inaugural Ballon d’Or in 2010 and went on to win three in a row, after his wins in 2011 and 2012. Ronaldo, who played for Real Madrid, won successive awards in the next two years. The final FIFA Ballon d’Or was presented to Messi in 2015. Its awarding bodies subsequently ended their partnership; for 2016, France Football reintroduced the previous format of the Ballon d’Or, while FIFA created The Best FIFA Men’s Player award.

The last golden ball of Messi and Ronaldo

As the final years of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo football approach, it looks like the end of a glorious era is near.

If we want to judge the situation with the wave of media disbelief, rumors and anger that was formed after the announcement of Lionel Messi from Barça, we must say that the era of this player and his value on the field is not over.

Perhaps the motto of one of the sponsors of football: “Precious” can be used to assess his true value. Last year, there was talk of a € 700 million release clause that no club could afford, and many talked about the value and credibility of the player, claiming that the player’s value in sports might have dropped significantly.

It may be a cliché to say that these incredible players can win a competition on their own, but we will not only look at their brilliance on the pitch, but also at their value off the pitch: media coverage, prestige, relationships. , Selling club products and the like.

However, the question must be asked, “Can they win a competition alone? This idea is in line with the significant personalization of performance and stardom that football has taken on today. This claim is also very much in line with the era of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi dominating football, which is inevitably coming to an end.

Admittedly, age restrictions and some other natural laws have not affected them much. However, Juventus were able to defend their “brand strategy” for three years using Cristiano Ronaldo, but were eventually eliminated from the Champions League by Ajax Amsterdam, Olympique Lyonnais and Porto.

Barça, along with Messi, have been eliminated in the worst possible way in the last three Champions League seasons by Roma, Liverpool and Bayern Munich.

We blame the managers and the coaches, but has not the whole system that Messi serves as the core of the impasse come to a standstill?

Bayern, Liverpool and Chelsea, the last champions of the Champions League, have adopted a new style that seems to last a long time in both teams: using brilliant players at the highest level but in a team style in which every player can succeed. Achieve remarkable.

The absence of any player does not cause a strange drop in the team thanks to the efforts of other players.

Paris Saint-Germain also paid a heavy price for their player recruitment policy due to Neymar’s injury during the first two seasons.

The Brazilian was a star in all stages of the Champions League, before falling in the final like Killian Mbabane, while they were expected to play a decisive role in this match. So the Parisian team once again seemed unbalanced and incomplete.
It is possible that PSG made the first contacts with Messi’s representatives last year.

This could be completely irrational, and this irrationality is not purely economic, unless you believe that putting a lot of stars on the offensive line is still a good way to win the Champions League.

The current priority is to put the stars back on the team, even if it means sacrificing some of them in the game – unlike Messi, who is known these days as the walking prince on the field. Then the example of the French national team in the 2018 World Cup comes to mind, or Antoine Griezmann, a player who makes others play – but in the last two seasons he could not find his place in Barcelona.

Maybe the era of Neo Maradona and the fantastic players to whom we handed the keys and the balls and waited to see their genius on the field is over with the end of Messi and Cristiano football.

There may be such a feeling towards Mbabane, but they should work harder or even seek less personal satisfaction.

We sometimes shy away from what these superstars are allowed to say: players who grew up in big teams after the Bosman era received a lot of service and took advantage of what made them shine.

But was it too much to empower them and give them so many benefits at the cost of independence?

Unlike Pele, Maradona or Platini, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, despite having twelve golden balls and a fantastic record, could not bring their national teams to very high levels: for example, winning the Olympics.

Although Portugal won the miraculous Euro title without Ronaldo in the final, this statistic shows that they are either very lonely or very monotonous in their national teams.

Maybe big teams with increasing tactical complexities and coaches that have more and more influence on them will be able to regain the excess power they gave to the individuals without giving up on stopping the best of them.

Lionel Messi Wins Record Seventh Ballon d’Or

The Paris St.-Germain star capped a year in which he led Argentina to the Copa América title by edging Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski.

Some of the most illustrious names in soccer’s long history only managed to win the Ballon d’Or, the sport’s most prestigious individual prize, once. George Best, Zinedine Zidane and Eúsebio all have just a single award to their names. Ronaldo, the great Brazilian striker, won two. Johan Cruyff, arguably the finest European player in history, has three.

After Monday night, Lionel Messi has seven.

Messi, 34, effectively retained the trophy he last won in 2019 — controversially, the award was not handed out by France Football last year because of the coronavirus pandemic — after a year in which he ended his long wait for an international honor, winning the Copa América with Argentina, and left Barcelona, the club where he had spent all of his career, for Paris St.-Germain.

“It’s incredible to be here again,” Messi said. “Two years ago I thought it was the last time. Winning the Copa América was the key.”

“I don’t know how many years I have left,” he added, “but I hope many more.”

Messi finished with 613 points in the voting, only 33 more than the runner-up, Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski. In 2019, the last time the trophy was awarded, Messi beat Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk by only seven points.