Whatever you do, don’t put your money on France, Portugal or Argentina for the World Cup, unless you want to bet against a 55-year-old curse.
After Cristiano Ronaldo’s hat-trick for Portugal against Sweden, he was installed as the bookies’ favourite for the Ballon d’Or.
Unfortunately for Portugal, this puts a big fat nail in the coffin of their World Cup hopes, and just after they secured their place in Brazil. Sort of.
Shockingly, the winner of the Ballon d’Or has NEVER gone on to win the World Cup the following year, although the reverse feat has happened many times, with plenty of World Cup winners having then gone on to win the Ballon d’Or.

So Portugal, Argentina and France may as well save themselves some cash and cancel their flights and hotels, because with Cristiano Ronaldo, Franck Ribery and Lionel Messi as the three respective favourites for the award, they are cursed.

Alright, they’re probably not cursed, but let’s look into it anyway, because it’s a miraculous run of bad luck.
In 1957, Alfredo Di Stefano won the...http://sportshubng.com/fifa-ballon-dor-glory-curse-winner-wont-win-world-cup-brazil/

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The Ballon D'or was an accolade for the EUROPEAN player of the year its only recently they merged it into the World Player of the Year award. and up till 1995 the Ballon D'or wasnt opened to South Americans and the rest of the world

Michel Platini won the B'Dor in 1983 and France went on to win the European Championship 1984

Ruud Gullit won the B'Dor in 1987 and Holland went on to win the European Championship 1988

How long did it take spain to win the world cup


The way some of u think is alarming,that is y africans are lacking behind....see reasoning