Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Andres Iniesta make up the three man shortlist for the FIFA Ballon d’Or.
You could make a case for Ronaldo and Iniesta winning but the award has to go to Messi, last season he produced a season of football that everybody thought was impossible.
He ended with 73 goals, 50 in the league, 29 assists and is on the verge of breaking Gerd Muller’s 40-year-old record of scoring 85 goals in a calendar year.
If he does win it would also mean another record of four titles, which would be consecutive, and all this at only 25.
Amazingly there are still some who are critical of Messi and say that it’s easy for him being supplied by Xavi, Iniesta, Fabregas etc. but look at it from the other side where would Barcelona be without him.
Since the start of the 08-09 season Messi has scored 237 goals in 239 games no-one else in the game, not even Ronaldo, comes close to matching that.
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