Ballon d'Or 2022

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Ballon d'Or 2022 nominees: Lionel Messi, Neymar not on 30-man ... (Eurosport.com)

Lionel Messi and Neymar have not been included on the 30-man shortlist for the 2022 Ballon d'Or.

Borussia Dortmund striker Sebastien Haller is on the list after a productive season at Ajax in 2021-22. He is joined by team-mates Virgil van Dijk, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Luis Diaz, Fabinho and Darwin Nunez. Harry Kane and Heung-Min Son are Tottenham's representatives. Kylian Mbappe does make the list.

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Ballon d'Or Award 2022 - 30 Nominees Revealed - Salah, Benzema ... (Sports Illustrated)

The 30-player shortlist for the Ballon d'Or 2022 has been revealed and last year's winner, Lionel Messi, has sensationally missed out.

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Ballon d'Or 2022 finalists: No Lionel Messi as nominees list for ... (Sporting News)

This list of finalists for the 2022 Ballon d'Or are out and Lionel Messi will not be in the mix for the first time since 2005. There are four main awards ...

Her missing out on the 2022 Euros due to a knee injury could hurt her chances. She joins three Americans, including Champions League winner Catarina Macario and rising star Trinity Rodman, who was a key figure in the Washington Spirit's NWSL title run. FW FW Ronaldo did make cut in 2022 and now has 18 Ballon d'Or nominations compared to Messi's 15. PSG's Argentine star controversially won the award last year, but he was not among the 30 players who will be up for the men's Ballon d'Or this time.

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Kylian Mbappe, Mo Salah Headline 2022 Ballon d'Or Short List ... (Bleacher Report)

For the first time since 2005, Lionel Messi has been li.

He is hoping to win the Ballon d'Or fir the first time in his career. The lone PSG player to make the cut was Mbappé, who scored 39 goals across all competitions in 2021-22. However, the Argentine superstar had a rough first season with Paris Saint-Germain, which likely led to his name being left off the list.

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Ballon d'Or 2022: Full list of nominees for men's, women's category (Yahoo Sports)

The nominees for the 2022 Ballon dOr were announced on Friday. Here are the 30 men and 20 women who made the cut, including Washington Spirit's Trinity ...

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Ballon d'Or 2022: The favourites - ranked (90min)

France Football have released their 30-player shortlist for the 2022 Ballon d'Or ...

Screenshot this, save it, frame it for all I care. If Benzema doesn't win the 2022 Ballon d'Or then I will eat a shoe. Nkunku has been bubbling away as a top player for Leipzig, but last season made him too good to leave out of conversations like this. Individual honours: PFA Team of the Year, Champions League Team of the Season, Premier League Player of the Season His form tailed off a little, but he was still one of the Premier League's most impressive players. Individual honours: Bundesliga Player of the Season, Bundesliga Team of the Season, Europa League Team of the Season

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Ballon d'Or - Lionel Messi left off nominees list for first time since ... (ESPN)

Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema leads the nominees as he bids to win the first Ballon d'Or award of his career. Cristiano Ronaldo, Robert Lewandowski and ...

Borussia Dortmund's Karim Adeyemi, Bayern Munich's Jamal Musiala and Bayer Leverkusen's Florian Wirtz all make the list, as does England duo Jude Bellingham and Bukayo Saka as well as Real Madrid's Champions League winner Eduardo Camavinga and Barcelona wonderkid Gavi. Liverpool's Mohamed Salah has also been nominated for the award after a stellar campaign. Cristiano Ronaldo, Robert Lewandowski and Erling Haaland were also included in the list of this year's nominees.

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Six Liverpool Players Nominated For 2022 Ballon d'Or Award (The Liverpool Offside)

The Ballon d'Or is an annual football award presented by French news magazine France Football since 1956. Trent Alexander-Arnold, Luis Diaz, Fabinho, Darwin ...

Alisson Becker has received a nomination for the 2022 Yashin Trophy, which is the award given to the best goalkeeper. The awards will be given at a ceremony in Paris on October 17, voted on by international journalists. The Ballon d’Or is an annual football award presented by French news magazine France Football since 1956.

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Ballon d'Or 2022: Full shortlists with Karim Benzema and Beth Mead ... (Eurosport.com)

The nominations are in for the Ballon d'Or awards, with the likes of Karim Benzema, Alexia Putellas, Alisson Becker and Jude Bellingham in contention for their ...

- Gavi (Barcelona) - Fabinho (Liverpool) - Casemiro (Real Madrid)

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Six Liverpool Players Nominated For The 2022 Ballon d'Or (The Liverpool Offside)

Salah, Alexander-Arnold, Fabinho, Diaz, Núñez, and Van Dijk were all short-listed for the award.

At the moment, only one Liverpool player has won the award, Michael Owen, following the treble season of 2000/01. This feels terribly unjust, by which I mean, “ tremendous, by the way.” And most recently Virgil van Dijk finished second in 2019. Said striker and objectively terribly human being, currently playing for Manchester United, whose ego couldn’t fit inside a freshly-emptied Old Trafford, was somehow nominated once again this year, presumably out of habit at this point.

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Ballon d'Or 2022 nominees announced: Benzema leads the way as ... (Goal.com)

France Football have announced the nominees for the 2022 men's Ballon d'Or, with Europe's best player set to be crowned at an official presentation ceremony ...

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Ballon d'Or Shortlist Takeaways: Messi Rightfully Omitted, Benzema ... (Sports Illustrated)

For the first time since 2005, Lionel Messi is not shortlisted for France Football's prestigious award, which should be Karim Benzema's to lose.

They all face an uphill battle considering the scope and stature of Lyon and England’s European titles and the opportunities to win matches of significance that the U.S. hardly had this past year. As for voting criteria goes, France Football confirmed in the spring a player’s reputation and past performance should no longer influence the voting, and that only individual performance, team performance and fair play should be taken into account—something that further underscores the omissions of Messi’s ilk in the shortlist. There were significant changes made to the 2022 award, with it taking into account the European calendar—so the start of seasons in August 2021 up through the Women’s Euros—and it will not include 2022’s greatest spectacle, the World Cup. Performances in Qatar will go toward determining the 2023 winner. The clear favorite, the Real Madrid and France veteran led his club to a La Liga-Champions League double, led both competitions in scoring and delivered decisive performances when the pressure was on. Whether Ronaldo, who led Manchester United in scoring in his return to Old Trafford last season, should still have a place in the conversation can be debated, but Messi and Neymar simply didn’t have good enough seasons for PSG to warrant being close to the award. Off years happen, and for Messi particularly, he had a paltry six goals in Ligue 1 last season (he hadn’t scored fewer than 23 in any league season with Barcelona dating back to 2008–09). While his 14 assists were second in the league, that’s hardly Ballon d’Or material—especially not the standard at which he has previously won the award.

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