Ballon d'Or 2011 Shortlist Revealed

[K.Dub]

Ehh, no Robin van Persie?!

Shortlists for the FIFA Ballon d’Or gala 2011

The following 23 men (in alphabetical order) are in contention for the FIFA Ballon d’Or 2011:

Éric Abidal (France), Sergio Agüero (Argentina), Karim Benzema (France), Iker Casillas (Spain), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Dani Alves (Brazil), Samuel Eto’o (Cameroon), Cesc Fàbregas (Spain), Diego Forlán (Uruguay), Andrés Iniesta (Spain), Lionel Messi (Argentina), Thomas Müller (Germany), Nani (Portugal), Neymar (Brazil), Mesut Özil (Germany), Gerard Piqué (Spain), Wayne Rooney (England), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany), Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands), Luis Suárez (Uruguay), David Villa (Spain), Xabi Alonso (Spain), Xavi (Spain).

http://www.fifa.com/ballondor/media/newsid=1535258/index.html

[bouli77]

ever since France Football Ballon d'Or merged with the FIFA World Player of the Year award, the new Ballon d'Or voting system has sucked IMO. no more relevance and much less prestige in my opinion.

Messi is probably gonna get it again, and he deserves it. Dude is on top like never before and we still don't know if that's his prime.

[Furor Teutonicus]

lol @ players like Neymar and Nani. This is a joke.

[13th Duke]

To be fair, Man Utd won the Premiership last season and got to the CL final, and Nani was probably their most consistent and arguably best player last season so he deserves to be on there.

No RVP is ludicrous tbf. He's scored bucketloads, regardless of how well Arsenal have done.

I'm just glad they never put the most overrated player in England, Gareth Bale, on that list.

[K.Dub]

Aye, Nani did well in my eyes . He's in the top 3 of Man U players, if that made any sense.

[wcsoldier]

RVP should be part of that list , no doubt about it ... Neymar shouldn't ... Alves and Abidal aren't no brainers aswell ... I think Gomez deserved to make it.

Anyways Messi is the clear winner this year unlike 2010 ( Xavi should have won the award)

[K.Dub]

Of course RvP doesn't stand a chance agains Messi in this, nobody does, but it'd be nice with some recognition.

[Lunatic]

To be fair, Man Utd won the Premiership last season and got to the CL final, and Nani was probably their most consistent and arguably best player last season so he deserves to be on there.

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[Furor Teutonicus]

To be fair, Man Utd won the Premiership last season and got to the CL final, and Nani was probably their most consistent and arguably best player last season so he deserves to be on there.

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pah. No wonder United sucks these days.