Twitter Left Aghast As Cristiano Ronaldo Couldn’t Make It To The Top Five In The Ballon d’Or Rankings

The world went abuzz with debates, discourses, altercations and every possible incarnation of fight last night as there was chaos and there was a tale of triumph that hardly the neutral football followers could have believed. Lionel Messi won his 7^th Ballon d’Or after a hiatus of two years where the award was stopped due to the raging pandemic.

Despite Lewandowski pulling off an absolute showdown in the last couple of seasons and with the whispers spreading like wild fire, the Polish striker couldn’t savour the last laugh. Much to his woes, the award for the year 2020 wasn’t even given and the Argentine skipper walked away with the most prestigious individual award in football. Much to the surprise of the world, Ronaldo couldn’t even in the top five.

To underline the achievements that helped Messi to bag the mighty prize, he almost single-handedly ushered a woeful Argentina to the finals where he switched off and the remaining team teetered along the fringes of mediocrity to ride on a Di Maria strike to win the Copa America.

Though he didn’t have much credentials to show for Barcelona as the Catalans could hardly post those glittering labels that they used to in the past, he still outshone others. There is a boatload of debates doing the rounds about why the Polish striker should have been awarded the honour and yet the planet celebrates the success of one of the greatest footballers of all time.

We will take a glimpse at all the awards that were given at the ceremony and the winners who bagged it.

Ballon d’Or Men – Lionel Messi

Ballon d’Or Women – Alexia Putellas

Ballon d’Or U21 player – Pedri (Kopa Trophy)

Ballon d’Or Goal-Keeper – Gianluigi Donarumma (Yashin Trophy)

Now with all said and done, Twitter was aghast as the Portuguese marksman couldn’t even come close within the ballpark of glory and had to be sated with a number 6 finish.