Football Daily podcast: Another Messi milestone and Rodgers to Arsenal? Last updated on 2 December 20192 December 2019.From the section European Footballcomments1093. Nobody else does this; partly because very few can.

The Hollywood star and a team of journalists explore 400 years of slavery. Matthijs de Ligt (Juventus and Netherlands), 16. Currently European football does not encourage this type of player to flourish. The Portuguese winger's brilliant scoring form helped him finish ahead of the Barcelona forward Lionel Messi into second place, while the Liverpool striker Fernando Torres was third in the poll results announced overnight by France Football magazine.

Xavi (FC Barcelona), Spain Samuel Eto’o (FC Barcelona), Cameroon Sometimes even the obvious deserves to be celebrated. Steven Gerrard (England/Liverpool) – 28 pts. Marcos Senna (Villarreal), Spain Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) 2. While his Liverpool heroics did not end in any tangible team success, Torres did not end the year trophyless, as, after his spectacular campaign with the Reds, he continued from where he left off on the international scene with Spain.

"They are the ones who passed the ball for me to score goals," he said.

Still the same old raging egomaniac, then. It might seem like an unnecessary act of gallantry to leap to the defence of a player who in the last two years has been crowned Players' Player of the Year (twice), Fans' Player of the Year (twice), Football Writers' Player of the Year (twice), Barclays Player of the Season (twice), Uefa Club Footballer of the Year , FIFPro World Player of the Year and, as of this morning, the Ballon d'Or winner for 2008. "Tomorrow morning in training, I will still be the same person as always," he said after being informed he'd won the award.

His most important contribution, however, came in the ultimate game when he scored the only goal to help Spain to a 1-0 victory over Germany. 2004-05, 2005-06, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2012-13, 2014-15,2015-16, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2008-09, 2011-12, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, Ballon d'Or: Ronaldo & Messi dominate since 2008. Unbelievable.

Franck Ribéry (Bayern Munich), France To the casual fan, this was just another goal in just another international final, but to 46 million Spaniards back home, that goal represented much more than that.

Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool and Netherlands), 3. Emmanuel Adebayor (Arsenal), Togo While Cristiano Ronaldo might have been a very deserving winner of the 2008 Ballon d'Or, Fernando Torres was equally deserving, and his third-place finish would go down as one of the many gaffes in Ballon d'Or podium finishes. Last year's winner Kaka slipped to eighth in this year's awards with only 31 points. He also becomes the first Premier League player to win since former Liverpool forward Michael Owen in 2001, and the first Portuguese player since winger Luis Figo won it with Real Madrid in 2000, and the third after Eusebio in 1965. The case for Torres to have been named the 2008 Ballon d'Or winner. On another note notice when Ronaldo knows he's not going to win an award he doesn't attend?

Indeed, Spain had embarrassingly been eliminated at the group stage at Euro 2004 four years earlier, while they only got as far as the round-of-16 at the 2006 World Cup, and despite having talented players like David Villa, Xavi, Iker Casillas and Fernando Torres, the Spanish public would have been forgiven for not getting their hopes up.

It was only for European players until 1995, when it expanded to become open for any player at a European club. Messi's win means the Ballon d'Or award has been won by a player from Spain's La Liga in each of the last 11 years, including last year's winner Luka Modric, who broke the 10-year Messi-Ronaldo monopoly on the prize. All rights reserved.

The 21-year-old Messi scored several breathtaking goals for Barca last season, and also helped Argentina defeat Nigeria 1-0 to win the Olympic gold medal at Beijing in August.

Fleet Street's first female football reporter, Julie Welch, tells Football Focus' Caroline de Moraes about the ups and downs of making her way in such a male-dominated industry. He was co-opted. And perhaps the same thing would have happened to Ronaldo, his excesses might have been sanded off at Manchester United, if he wasn't so jaw-droppingly good. The Ballon d'Or has been awarded by France Football every year since 1956, with England's Stanley Matthews the first winner.
The Ballon D’Or shortlist for 2008 comprises of 30 footballers who have excelled in their performances for club and country over the previous season.

": I would pick Messi in my team long before Van Dijk. At Chelsea his frills have been sacrificed for an admirable ferreting and adept sense of team play. From Juanito, Carlos Santillana and Carles Rexach in the 1970s, Emilio Butragueno and Manolo Sanchis in the 1980s to Raul Gonzalez and Fernando Hierro in the 1990s, Spain had no shortage of world beaters who dominated on the club scene, but for one reason or another failed to make it on the international stage. While some awardees were truly deserving such as Johan Cruyff in 1971, Michel Platini in 1985, Marco van Basten in 1989, Ronaldo in 1997 and Zinedine Zidane a year later, there were also some other questionable decision by the voting panel of journalists such as placing Michael Owen over Raul Gonzalez in 2001 and Matthias Sammer finishing over Ronaldo de Lima in 1996.

Barcelona forward Lionel Messi has won the Ballon d'Or award for the world's best player for a record sixth time. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool and England), 20= Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal and Gabon), 22.
Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United), Portugal Nemanja Vidic (Manchester United), Serbia

That gave Ronaldo two points more than AC Milan's Brazilian schemer Kaka tallied to win last year's award. Lionel Messi can play like this.

Why should we be surprised, curious, or - in particular - happy about this? "It's one of the greatest days of my life. For all the talk of football being a team sport, personal accolades also rank highly on the wishlists of every footballer, particularly those at the very highest level, and although they might not come out to openly admit it, almost every player has dreamed of holding aloft that prized possession. First published on Tue 2 Dec 2008 12.51 GMT.

Just to pre-empt all the moronic "What did Messi do last season?

Read about our approach to external linking. "I hope to continue for a long time. Then representing Manchester United, Cristiano Ronaldo put in a spectacular individual performance for the Red Devils, scoring 42 goals in all competitions to help Sir Alex Ferguson's men to the Premier League title as well as the Champions League. Ronaldo will never win another Messi will end with the most and it's deserved, he is the best player of all time. Edwin van der Sar (Manchester United), Netherlands In this series, starting from 2008 till the next decade, we shall be making a case for players who were cruelly denied the Ballon d'Or. Yesterday Paul Doyle expressed what many people feel about both Ronaldo and his golden ball. Ronaldo's United teammates Wayne Rooney, Edwin van der Sar and Nemanja Vidic were nominated, as were Chelsea's Michael Ballack, Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard. Messi has stepped up his form since then, with nine league goals in 11 games for Barca - one less than he got in 27 games last season - as he continues to develop a flourishing partnership with his strike partner Samuel Eto'o from Cameroon.

Fernando Torres (Spain/Liverpool) – 179 pts Making a case for Fernando Torres to have been named the 2008 Ballon d'Or winner in Cristiano Ronaldo's stead.

Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus and Portugal), 6.

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