The Official Balon d'Or 2015 Thread

[free_cat]

This is the final 23 footballers list for the male Golden Ball:

Alemania: Toni Kroos (Real Madrid), Thomas Müller (Bayern) y Manuel Neuer (Bayern).
Argentina: Kun Agüero (Manchester City), Javier Mascherano (Barça) Lionel Messi (Barça).
Bélgica: Kevin de Bruyne (Wolfsburg-Man City) y Eden Hazard (Chelsea).
Brasil: Neymar (Barça)
Chile: Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) y Arturo Vidal (Juventus-Bayern).
Colombia: James Rodríguez (Real Madrid).
Costa de Marfil: Touré Yaya (Man City).
Croacia: Iván Rakitic (Barça).
España: Andrés Iniesta (Barça).
Francia: Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) y Paul Pogba (Juventus).
Gales: Gareth Bale (Real Madrid).
Holanda: Arjen Robben (Bayern).
Polonia: Robert Lewandowski (Bayern).
Portugal: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid).
Suecia: Zlatan Ibrahimovic (PSG).
Uruguay: Luis Suárez (Barça).

Toni Kroos and Mascherano being there is utter rubish. How on earth Piqué and Busquets are not better than them?

Toure's year has been also quite modest, while Robben has been permainjured as always.

[Lucifer]

Mascherano

[BarrileteCosmico]

Masche must be there because of his NT performances.

Also Vidal is Brazilian according to that list

Not a single Italian or English man

[Myesyats]

Also Vidal is Brazilian according to that list

wat?

[farfan]

No Tevez ? no Buffon ? ok...

[Hapless_Hans]

Masche must be there because of his NT performances.

Also Vidal is Brazilian according to that list

Not a single Italian or English man

It says 'Chile:' after Neymar, freak_cat forgot to make a new line

[Mr Nick09]

Not s single spanish soul

[BarrileteCosmico]

Iniesta is there

Also you guys are right, it does say Chile

[farfan]

Not s single spanish soul

Iniesta ?

[Hapless_Hans]

As always, a joke.

Only 'defender' is Mascherano

[free_cat]

Masche must be there because of his NT performances.

Also Vidal is Brazilian according to that list

Not a single Italian or English man

Which performances with the national team? The run to the lost final in Copa America??

[Hapless_Hans]

btw, could we stick to Ballon D'or at least?

Else it sounds far too much like Austin Powers IMO.

[sportsczy]

Masche must be there because of his NT performances.

Also Vidal is Brazilian according to that list

Not a single Italian or English man

Which performances with the national team? The run to the lost final in Copa America??

He carried Argentina's midfield single handedly to the WC final... i personally thought Masch was Argentina's best player in the WC. Was an incredible DM.

[Hapless_Hans]

WC was 2014 though last I checked.

[Myesyats]

WC was 2014 though last I checked.

True lol

Time flies

[Mr Nick09]

Ah i missed that. thanks to one game in CL lmao.

[futbol]

Bale.

[free_cat]

Bale.

True dat. He was slaughtered by Madrid fans last season, yet he is there.

[Mr Nick09]

he qualified his NT for the euros. he has better NT perf than messi and ronaldo together

#BaleRising

[Harmonica]

This is the final 23 footballers list for the male Golden Ball:

Alemania: Toni Kroos (Real Madrid), Thomas Müller (Bayern) y Manuel Neuer (Bayern).
Argentina: Kun Agüero (Manchester City), Javier Mascherano (Barça) Lionel Messi (Barça).
Bélgica: Kevin de Bruyne (Wolfsburg-Man City) y Eden Hazard (Chelsea).
Brasil: Neymar (Barça)
Chile: Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) y Arturo Vidal (Juventus-Bayern).
Colombia: James Rodríguez (Real Madrid).
Costa de Marfil: Touré Yaya (Man City).
Croacia: Iván Rakitic (Barça).
España: Andrés Iniesta (Barça).
Francia: Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) y Paul Pogba (Juventus).
Gales: Gareth Bale (Real Madrid).
Holanda: Arjen Robben (Bayern).
Polonia: Robert Lewandowski (Bayern).
Portugal: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid).
Suecia: Zlatan Ibrahimovic (PSG).
Uruguay: Luis Suárez (Barça).

Toni Kroos and Mascherano being there is utter rubish. How on earth Piqué and Busquets are not better than them?

Toure's year has been also quite modest, while Robben has been permainjured as always.

I see Iniesta again had his resident spot in the shortlist, nevermind how he performed.

Also Poachtapenaldo is there.

[Myesyats]

Wasn't Robben injured for majority of the year btw?

[Dnmac4]

Let's see the breakdown by leagues.

Spain-11 players nominated
Germany-5 players nominated
England-4 players nominated
Italy-2 players nominated
France-1 player nominated

BTW for KDB and Vidal both would be nominated for there German and Italian club's as they have only spent a small amount of time with there new teams.

It's crazy that out of the 23 players listed i think like 3 play in the country of there origin. I don't know if that means anything or not but looking at Spain with 11 players nominated you would think they would have more than 1 player who is actually Spanish.

[Hapless_Hans]

Wasn't Robben injured for majority of the year btw?

yeah, Robben didn't play much 2015 so far

[Myesyats]

Yeah, so he seems to be in that list by default... Looking further than top 3 is not advised

[Doc]

Defenders really have to be shite since not a single one has been nominated and no, I do not consider Mascherano a defender. His bumbling ass is a midfielder.

Other than that, standard FIFA Balon D'or list which I fully expect the top 3 to be Messi, Ronaldo and someone else. Maybe Neuer, apparently the only goal keeper that is good enough to be nominated in the world.

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