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Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by bunmioguns(m): 12:03am On May 15, 2020
Didier Drogba
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by Alanpoza007: 12:03am On May 15, 2020
eni4real:
Ribery case is worse!!! A trophyless player won the Ballon d'or instead!!!
I actually rated Arjen Robben ahead of Ribery in that Bayern team. He's more dangerous and deadly. My opinion. We saw how he sealed the fate of Dortmund in the UCL final.
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by NigeriaB(m): 12:07am On May 15, 2020
Babyforever:
Etoo and i love him smiley though i love ronaldo (cr7) more

Thank you for loving Ronaldo. I will ask for your account number soon.
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by Nobody: 12:07am On May 15, 2020
m140:

Hiding players under team, how many ucl has messi won since iniesta n xavi left barca. Can messi be the best player without the help of players around him. You saying r9 played in a better team. Tell me any world cup Argentina was not one of the favorites, Argentina has been doing well before messi. Messi played with the best midfielders if not best ever . Messi should be able to win win Copa with the Argentine squad he had been playing since 2006. Its shows he is average. Pele won three world cups, messi didn't even win one copa. So .... messi has not been playing with best players,,,, he cant even change team and win a trophy . If you say consistency , cr7 has been too. With his consistency he had never scored pass goals in a world cup . That dude only good in barca shirt. Zidane did well for club b country,r9,pele,Maradona,ronaldinho. These are the goats, even cr7 did well with small team,if cr7 had Argentina squad he could have won the world cup. If messi player with Brazil team of 1998,2002,1994, they wont win the world cup
Please, stop hiding hiding Cristiano under Eder's masterclass!!

Cristiano was injured in a final like Ballack!!! Stop the Overhype.. Please!!!

You said Messi played with best ever Midfielders??

I would say Messi make all those Midfielders appear greater than they really would have been with another players except Messi!!

Without Xavi and Iniesta, Messi just won another Ballon d'or and world best Playmaker to prove that he has been at the Ballon top 3 since 2007 when Xavi and Iniesta were bench warmers and was still winning the Ballon d'or after they are no more active at the top Leagues!!!

Messi is far bigger Xavi and Iniesta talent combined!!!

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Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by Nobody: 12:08am On May 15, 2020
Alanpoza007:

I actually rated Arjen Robben ahead of Ribery in that Bayern team. He's more dangerous and deadly. My opinion. We saw how he sealed the fate of Dortmund in the UCL final.
Watch Bayern Munich vs Barcelona again!!
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by NigeriaB(m): 12:08am On May 15, 2020
Peter Rufai
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by JentuPrinz(m): 12:14am On May 15, 2020
Ramos,Terry,Van dijk
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by Euegene100001: 12:14am On May 15, 2020
grin
kalvoken:
J J Okocha





Atleast you know him. Now does he know you?

You don't need to answer that.
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by ciencee(m): 12:16am On May 15, 2020
It's definitely Eric "KING" Cantona
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by m140(m): 12:18am On May 15, 2020
eni4real:
Please, stop hiding hiding Cristiano under Eder's masterclass!!

Cristiano was injured in a final like Ballack!!! Stop the Overhype.. Please!!!

You said Messi played with best ever Midfielders??

I would say Messi make all those Midfielders appear greater than they really would have been with another players except Messi!!

Without Xavi and Iniesta, Messi just won another Ballon d'or and world best Playmaker to prove that he has been at the Ballon top 3 since 2007 when Xavi and Iniesta were bench warmers and was still winning the Ballon d'or after they are no more active at the top Leagues!!!

Messi is far bigger Xavi and Iniesta talent combined!!!
Lolzzzz, bros messi is nothing outside barca.
It's only messi that wins trophy for the team bah,
Messi should get injured like cr7 too to win copa, the ones he played sef wetin he win, na for him front e dey happen. Average outside barca. I guess messi won the world cup for iniesta n xavi,,,, see as iniesta score for wc finals. Messi made them better , they won wc n 2 euro that's more competitive without him, you just saying jargons, he needs them than they need him, they won bigger trophy when he was not playing for them, something he himself prayed for. He is nothing without them. They won with another shirt,but he cant

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Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by Babyforever(f): 12:18am On May 15, 2020
NigeriaB:


Thank you for loving Ronaldo. I will ask for your account number soon.
Why not now cheesy
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by Euegene100001: 12:20am On May 15, 2020
Abi ,I think ronaldiho won it twice
GoshenNLA:

This your list is kinda wrong though
Ronaldo de lima won it 3 times, 1996, 1997 and 2002
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by brightalo1010: 12:21am On May 15, 2020
ceejeck:



Jay jay Okocha grin

With Bolton?
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by Euegene100001: 12:23am On May 15, 2020
More like ronaldinho was too good at that time
realsammie:
Thierry Henry should have won it in 2004. He was rubbed
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by Alanpoza007: 12:23am On May 15, 2020
geezville:
Quite frankly, till this day...I do not understand how Cannavaro won the 2006 award. I mean, ok Italy won the world cup, but there were more deserving players that year.
That was probably the worst Ballon D'Or award. Even if they wantex to give that award to an Italian at all cost, the likes of Pirlo and Buffon were there who were much better than the Cannavaro guy.

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Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by obinoral1179(m): 12:25am On May 15, 2020
Akube1z:
Messi and Ronaldo really dominated that award for a long time.


If there is a player that deserve a ballon d or award . it should be from ajen robben or didier drogba.
drogba of all people, do you want us to give you his statistics..
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by FirstbornWds: 12:26am On May 15, 2020
m140:

Bros messi only good in barca. R9 better than him blue black,,,, 11 awards between two players, no wc one no even one nations cup shows the award no carry weight again, unless you started watching the beautiful games not up to 15 years ago...

Lol... R9 is not even better than Suarez... Comparing him to Messi is basically an insult. I don't need to explain the reasons to you.
Even Germany won the WC with a terrible performance. That's goes to tell you how much luck can play

And no, I didn't start watching football some 15years back.

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Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by obinoral1179(m): 12:29am On May 15, 2020
Balenciagaokey:
Andres Iniesta
Pirlo
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Thiery Henry
Samuel Etoo
Franck ribery
Arjen robben
Frank Lampard
Steven Gerrard
Buffon
Sneidjer
Xavi Hernandez
Francesco Totti


Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by FirstbornWds: 12:29am On May 15, 2020
m140:

Lolzzzz, bros messi is nothing outside barca.
It's only messi that wins trophy for the team bah,
Messi should get injured like cr7 too to win copa, the ones he played sef wetin he win, na for him front e dey happen. Average outside barca. I guess messi won the world cup for iniesta n xavi,,,, see as iniesta score for wc finals. Messi made them better , they won wc n 2 euro that's more competitive without him, you just saying jargons, he needs them than they need him, they won bigger trophy when he was not playing for them, something he himself prayed for. He is nothing without them. They won with another shirt,but he cant

You shot yourself when you said Euros was more competitive than Copa America...

With the likes of Malta, Lithuania and the likes. Abegghi.
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by Pedrocross4568(m): 12:33am On May 15, 2020
Brazil Ronaldo aka The real one and Zenidine Zidane both won it three times each.
For me the players that should have win but didn't Romario and Steven Gerrard.
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by m140(m): 12:42am On May 15, 2020
FirstbornWds:


You shot yourself when you said Euros was more competitive than Copa America...

With the likes of Malta, Lithuania and the likes. Abegghi.
Lolzzzz, mention top teams in copa America na, e pass 4 or three , or you drink shayo. What are you saying sef na .
He should go win Copa, no body dey vote for trophy, na why e no fit win am
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by Nobody: 12:44am On May 15, 2020
m140:

Lolzzzz, bros messi is nothing outside barca.
It's only messi that wins trophy for the team bah,
Messi should get injured like cr7 too to win copa, the ones he played sef wetin he win, na for him front e dey happen. Average outside barca. I guess messi won the world cup for iniesta n xavi,,,, see as iniesta score for wc finals. Messi made them better , they won wc n 2 euro that's more competitive without him, you just saying jargons, he needs them than they need him, they won bigger trophy when he was not playing for them, something he himself prayed for. He is nothing without them. They won with another shirt,but he cant
Messi is everything outside Barcelona
Argentina is nothing without him!!

Are we not talking about the same Messi that won the Best player Golden balls in World youth , World cup, Olympic and Copa America??

He is the only one in history to achieve that!!;

The fact that he has a high budget Aiyegbeni as a Stirker in the National team, would not reduce his individual greatness!!!

Messi is the best ever...

It is time to stop hiding other players under Team trophies!!!

How many individual best awards have they won in all tournaments they have played??

Iniesta and Xavi are just like David Silva without Messi ... They are also lucky to play for a National team who has Barcelona and Real Madrid combined team as a National team...
Also have David Villa (who scored 5goals out of 9 goals scored by the team in the 2010 World cup)
Torres, Marco Senna, Xabi Alonso , Ramos, Casillas Capdevilla etc!!

Stop overhyping Xavi and Iniesta.

They were only able to make Ballon d'or top 3 once!!!

Stop hiding them under team Trophies in order to ridicule the best individual player in history (Lionel Messi)!!!
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by m140(m): 12:47am On May 15, 2020
FirstbornWds:


You shot yourself when you said Euros was more competitive than Copa America...

With the likes of Malta, Lithuania and the likes. Abegghi.
Malta,Lithuania, lolzzzz,
Why not mention France,italy,Sweden,Denmark,England,Holland,Germany, Belgium,spain,Croatia, Portugal, how e dey do you na,

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Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by mayor1814: 12:52am On May 15, 2020
Thierry Henry, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Eric Cantona
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by uthlaw: 1:10am On May 15, 2020
Calabar1stSon:

My love for Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery is outta this world cheesy
same here!
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by ajericho(m): 3:05am On May 15, 2020
eni4real:
2013 version is the biggest robbery in history tho!!!

A trophyless player should not make the Ballon d'or top 5!!!

All robbery na robbery
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by holymiles(m): 3:10am On May 15, 2020
Wesley Sneidjer

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Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by Ebenfat: 3:26am On May 15, 2020
Andrea Pirlo . Deserves one

My best deep-lying playmaker in midfield ever .
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by zedegit: 3:36am On May 15, 2020
Calabar1stSon:


Here is the list of Ballon d’Or winners from 1956 till date


http://www.superbettingsites.com/ballon-dor-winners-list/

Who do you think was qualified for the award but was never given?

Kylian Mbappe, Leuwandowski, Samuel Eto, Mo Sallah.

No African has won it and you say it's not racism?
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by zedegit: 3:45am On May 15, 2020
UrRealG:
Ibrahimovic, Robben, Ribery, Sneijder

Lewandowski is highly underated too

Exactly. I mentioned him.

Leuwandowski that dominates German league. He scores at almost all Bayern games, same as Mbappe does for PSG.
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by switspin(f): 4:31am On May 15, 2020
Balenciagaokey:
Andres Iniesta
Pirlo
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Thiery Henry
Samuel Etoo
Franck ribery
Arjen robben
Frank Lampard
Steven Gerrard
Buffon
Sneidjer
Xavi Hernandez
Francesco Totti


Maradona
Re: Who Was The Best Player That Never Won The Ballon d'Or Award? by seunmsg(m): 4:36am On May 15, 2020
Thiery Henry by far.

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