To the surprise of many, the France Football magazine prize remained without a winner in 2020.
The 2023 Ballon d’Or will be awarded on Monday, October 30, with Lionel Messi the favorite to win the award.
The coveted award that the magazine awards France football has been monopolized in recent years by the Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, two of the greatest athletes of all time. In the last editions, from 2008 to 2023, only Luka Modric and Karim Benzema managed to break the hegemony of the Argentine star and the Portuguese goalscorer.
In 2020the Ballon d’Or was supposed to be won by someone other than Leo or CR7, but the prize was unexpectedly left without an owner after his will is made known cancellation. Therefore, inside GOAL We will tell you the reasons for this suspension.
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WHY WAS THE 2020 BALLON D’OR CANCELLED?
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The prize, which was first awarded in 1956, was left without a winner in 2020 the organizers decided to cancel the ceremony Because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
As you already know, 2020 was an atypical year for everyone. The pandemic forced competitions to halt virtually around the world, the magazine said France football He determined that it was not fair for anyone to win the trophy, given the lack of activity of the footballers.
For the experts, Robert Lewandowski He emerged as the big winner of the 2020 Ballon d’Or, as he won every possible trophy with Bayern Munich and scored all the goals he wanted on a personal level.
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Source: Goal