Lionel Messi starts as the favorite according to several bookmakers.
Lionel Messi starts as the favorite to win the 2021 Ballon d’Or according to the bookmakers, the Spanish newspaper As published this Monday, the day the Argentine star received his eighth trophy for the best scorer in the 2020/2021 Spanish League.
In his last year in the Spanish championship defending the FC Barcelona shirt, Messi scored 30 goals in 35 games, winning this Pichichi trophy for the best scorer in the championship, for the eighth time, the fifth in a row.
“The forecasts point to an Argentine crowning again in Paris with (Robert) Lewandowski behind with a quota that almost triples that of the 30 of Paris Saint-Germain”, he develops As.
The third would be Karim Benzema, “quite a distance from both,” adds the Madrid newspaper.
For the award given by the French magazine France Football Also competing are Italian midfielder Jorginho, winner of the Champions League with Chelsea, proclaimed European champion with Italy, and already crowned UEFA Player of the Year, and French PSG star Kylian Mbappé.
Through his official Twitter account, France Football announced that this Monday, around 10:30 Ecuadorian time, the ranking of the applicants in the male and female categories of the Ballon d’Or, as well as those of the Kopa Trophy and the Yachine Trophy, would be revealed.
In the list of 30 candidates for the Ballon d’Or unveiled last October, figure the five-time winner of the trophy, Cristiano Ronaldo, the Norwegian forward of Borussia Dortmund Erling Haaland, the English Harry Kane, Mason Mount, Phil Foden and Raheem Sterling, finalists of the Eurocup. Danish defender Simon Kjaer, semi-finalist of the last European Championship, is one of the surprises among the 30.
The South American representation is completed by the Argentine Lautaro Martínez (Inter Milan) and the Uruguayan Luis Suárez (Atlético de Madrid).
The applicants are:
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