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10 players excluded from Ballon d’Or nominees
The final list of players nominated for the 2022 Ballon d’Or award saw many surprises after the names of the 30 players were revealed via the official account of the French magazine France Football.
The 30-man candidate list did not see many brilliant names in the world of football, most notably former Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona player Lionel Messi, after the Argentine’s underwhelming season with his French club at the single-digit level.
This is the first time since 2005 that Messi has not been on the list of candidates for the Ballon d’Or award, with the Argentine appearing in the previous 17 editions.
Messi’s exclusion from the list was not the only surprise in the selections but also did not have fellow Paris Saint-Germain Brazilian Neymar da Silva, who also missed the scene of his declining numbers last season, and they failed together to lead the Parisian giants to the advanced stage of the Champions League. by Real Madrid”, which Paris had bid farewell to the role of 16.
The list also saw the absence of Manchester City‘s Rodri capped by the English league title, and the player also missed the list of candidates for Europe’s best player announced by UEFA.
Roma’s Pellegrini also missed out on the list of candidates for the Ballon d’Or, despite being crowned with the UEFA Europa Conference title in an extraordinary season under veteran Jose Mourinho.
Here players were excluded from the candidates for the 2022 Ballon d’Or list:
Lionel Messi, Paris Saint-Germain.
Neymar da Silva, Paris Saint-Germain.
Tony Cross, Real Madrid.
Rodrigo Goose, Real Madrid.
Alison Becker, Liverpool.
Rodri, Manchester City.
Pedri, Barcelona.
Pellegrini, Rome.
Tio Hernandez, Milan.
Diogo Jota, Liverpool.
