Cristiano Ronaldo wins 2016 Ballon D'Or [Free Reps and Daps]

[TTT]

Yeah, that voting extension was so blatant
I'm almost glad that Sneijder didn't get it. Dude was a classic one-year wonder and they always look suspect when you look at the list of previous winners. He flopped at Madrid, had a great year at Inter, then went back to being average after that. Besides, Eto'o was the best player on that Inter team.

Darko Pancev finished 2nd in 1991! Paolo Futre and Schillaci also finished 2nd in 87 and 90. Imagine if they had won and put their names alongside true legends of the game... Even Sammer and Cannavaro look like intruders on that list

Inter was just a great all round team then The one misstep for them was Owen in 2001 and exclusion of non Europeans. Nedved and Shevchenko would not have sniffed that thing if it were up to FIFA they had a Ronaldo/Zidane thing going on then.

 

[BlackManLiveFromLondon]

Negged :simeone:

UCL final
Euros final
Ballon D'Or

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

Cristiano Ronaldo is the greatest to ever do it

4 Ballon D'Ors
winning the Premier League and La Liga trophies
winning the Champions League with two different teams
scoring 50+ goals for....what 6 seasons now?
winning the Euro championships with Portugal

it's no secret that the PL was the best league in the world while he was there and when he left....now La Liga is the best

he is single handedly transforming leagues

 

[THEREALBRAND]

Cristiano Ronaldo is the greatest to ever do it

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

Ronaldo and Messi have surpassed Maradona and the other greats

they're in a league of their own

 

[NSSVO]

SSSSIIIII​

 

[Jaylen Tatum]

it's disgusting how he gets credit for that euro final when his bytch ass sashayed off the field

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

it's disgusting how he gets credit for that euro final when his bytch ass sashayed off the field

who got them to the final?

 

[stepbackj34spud]

@BLAZO da GAWD

Respect the goat bro.

 

[THEREALBRAND]

Ronaldo and Messi have surpassed Maradona and the other greats

they're in a league of their own

I can't agree with that. If Maradona and other greats played in this era they'd look just as amazing.

The pitches are vastly superior today, the balls aren't as heavy and are easier to control, the boots are a lot lighter, and rule changes have made made it easier for goal scorers. Defenders were throwing José Aldo style Muay Thai leg kicks at Maradona without even getting a warning. Messi and CR7 would look a lot differently playing under those circumstances.

 

[superunknown23]

I can't agree with that. If Maradona and other greats played in this era they'd look just as amazing.

The pitches are vastly superior today, the balls aren't as heavy and are easier to control, the boots are a lot lighter, and rule changes have made made it easier for goal scorers. Defenders were throwing José Aldo style Muay Thai leg kicks at Maradona without even getting a warning. Messi and CR7 would look a lot differently playing under those circumstances.

Nonsense.
Just watch those games from the 1980s on youtube and see the blatant difference in players' athleticism and conditioning. The game was much slower back then and you had tons of spacing because the players didn't cover as much ground quickly. Players were allowed far too much time on the ball because they weren't getting closed down fast enough.
The best defensive midfielders in the 80s typically ran about 5-6 km per match... Today 10 km is routine even for the lazy ones. Soccer players used have terrible diet and many of them were regular smokers until the 90s (look at Arsenal/EPL before Arsene Wenger got there).
Imagine what Messi would do if he was allowed that kind of spacing. Karate kicks can't help much when you can't close him down fast enough.

In terms of scoring, the biggest change happened with the new offside rule they implemented just before the 1994 world cup. Before, you were offside even if you were on the same line as the last defender (the new rule also spelled the end of the "sweeper" position). That one rule change drastically opened up the game and scoring (FIFA had to do it after the record-low scoring 1990 World Cup). Platini was Serie A top scorer 3 times despite never reaching 20 goals.
Seeing someone score 40-50 goals was unthinkable back then.

 

[DlAMONDZ]

4th ballon dor

Got his haters in shambles

Probably his least deserved but whatever.

He was the reason his teams won the 2 most important trophies of the year

 

[LeMAO]

a mere passenger in their trophies and playing meh this year. this award is a joke

 

[LeMAO]

2013 was the least deserved. He won NOTHING that year, zero trophy.
But Messi got injured and Ronaldo scored a couple goals for Portugal against Sweden to qualify for the World Cup... shyt was fresh in voters' memories and they discarded the previous 11 months
Also, Messi had won 4 in a row and they wanted to spread it around.

this, this award changes criteria everytime ? and what a corrupt award to extend the voting...
In 2013 when Cr7 won without trophies(first time in history that a player won bdr without any trophy) , extended voting time because of that Blatter comment so to avoid to be called bias to Messi they extended the voting or the voters can change. He won it based off of that WC qualification match against Sweden (where he scored a hat-trick) and became a hero. Whereas most other top players had easily lead their teams to qualification while having a vacation already..

 

[LeMAO]

Nonsense.
Just watch those games from the 1980s on youtube and see the blatant difference in players' athleticism and conditioning. The game was much slower back then and you had tons of spacing because the players didn't cover as much ground quickly. Players were allowed far too much time on the ball because they weren't getting closed down fast enough.
The best defensive midfielders in the 80s typically ran about 5-6 km per match... Today 10 km is routine even for the lazy ones. Soccer players used have terrible diet and many of them were regular smokers until the 90s (look at Arsenal/EPL before Arsene Wenger got there).
Imagine what Messi would do if he was allowed that kind of spacing. Karate kicks can't help much when you can't close him down fast enough.

In terms of scoring, the biggest change happened with the new offside rule they implemented just before the 1994 world cup. Before, you were offside even if you were on the same line as the last defender (the new rule also spelled the end of the "sweeper" position). That one rule change drastically opened up the game and scoring (FIFA had to do it after the record-low scoring 1990 World Cup). Platini was Serie A top scorer 3 times despite never reaching 20 goals.
Seeing someone score 40-50 goals was unthinkable back then.

but Serie A was a defensive league back then. so don't expect much and the talents are spread, unlike now you have superteams