2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or

The 55 Ballon d'Or (French for Golden Ball ) was first awarded in 2010 jointly by the magazine France Football and the football 's world governing body FIFA under the new name FIFA Ballon d'Or. For the fourth time so that the world's best footballer of the year award. From 1956 to 2006, this trophy was awarded European Footballer of the Year. It is not identical with the allocated by FIFA 1991-2009 World Player of the Year award, the replacement is omitted as a result of an agreement between France Football and the World Federation in 2010. After the three best players - even without their respective placement on the " podium " - were published on 6 December 2010, it was announced on January 10, 2011 at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich the final result. Winner of the Ballon d' Or 2010 was last year's winner Lionel Messi before Andrés Iniesta and Xavi Hernández. All three players were currently under contract at FC Barcelona.

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The prize is awarded by a jury made ​​up of 147 national team coaches, 143 captains and 154 national journalists. Each of them will award three players from a jointly specified by the France- Football - editors and FIFA list five, three or one point. The performance of the players will be honored throughout the calendar year. Since the three groups of voters have different electoral numbers, the votes of these three " electoral colleges " but are ever exactly cover one third of the overall results are that absolute scores subsequently translated and published in percentages.

Result

Of the nominated German players Mesut Özil was best placed in 13th, while Philipp Lahm, together with Dani Alves came in last place.

Statistics

A total of 426 jurors had voted from 185 countries, including 154 journalists and 136 per coach or captain of each team. Thus, 18 of the 444 voters gave off no vote. In particular, it came in an exceptional case to the deletion of (partial ) votes, such as Bert van Marwijk and Mark van Bommel, who illegally their compatriot Wesley Sneijder in the first place, respectively - van Bommel also Arjen Robben on the second - had set.

Overall, earnings this year at the top was scarcer than in the previous two years. The 2010 introduced the participation of three groups of jurors also was also reflected in a more differentiated picture, even if the top four players was total unanimity:

Here, the total fourth- Sneijder set ( 320 points, 35 first places) before Iniesta (313 /40), Xavi Hernández (248 /36) and Messi (182 /18) by.

This group had the first four ranks of the identical order, which found itself in the overall result: Messi, who was on 51 ballots at the top, well ahead of Iniesta ( 23), Xavi Hernández ( 27) and Sneijder (9). Only on the fifth and sixth place there was a difference: for the coach stood in front of Cristiano Ronaldo Diego Forlán.

The player also saw Messi as the best years (45 first-place finishes ), but then followed Xavi Hernández ( 26) before Iniesta ( 17) and ranked four Sneijder (15).

  • Germany Karl Heinz Wild ( KICKER Sports Magazine ): 1 Sneijder, Messi 2, 3 seals
  • Joachim Löw: 1 Xavi Hernández, Messi 2nd, 3rd Forlán
  • Philipp Lahm: 1 Iniesta, Sneijder 2nd, 3rd Messi
  • Ernst Hasler ( Liechtenstein Fatherland): 1 Sneijder, Xavi Hernández 2, 3 Villa
  • Hans -Peter Zaugg: 1 Xavi Hernandez, second Messi, Iniesta 3
  • Mario Frick: 1 Messi, Eto'o 2nd, 3rd Iniesta
  • Christophe Nadin (La Voix du Luxembourg ): 1 Iniesta, Sneijder 2nd, 3rd Messi
  • Luc Holtz: 1 Iniesta, Messi 2nd, 3rd Sneijder
  • Jeff Strasser: 1 Messi, Iniesta second, third Ronaldo
  • Walter Kowatsch Black ( freelance journalist ): 1 Iniesta, Forlan 2, 3 Messi
  • Didi Constantini: 1 Iniesta, Villa 2, 3 Klose
  • Marc Janko: 1 Iniesta, Xavi Hernández 2, 3 Schweinsteiger
  • Pierre -Alain Dupuis ( Télévision Suisse Romande ): 1 Iniesta, Sneijder 2nd, 3rd Forlán
  • Ottmar Hitzfeld: 1 Messi, Sneijder 2nd, 3rd Forlán
  • Alexander Frei: 1 Xavi Hernandez, second Schweinsteiger, 3 Casillas

Nominees

The end of October of 23 players full circle of the candidates was announced. In the year of the FIFA World Cup are in particular players from the most successful teams of this tournament - no less than seven players of the world champion Spain - as well as the Champions League winners Inter Milan and Bayern Munich finalists include:

  • Spain Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid)
  • Brazil Daniel Alves ( FC Barcelona)
  • Spain Iker Casillas (Real Madrid)
  • Brazil Júlio César ( Inter Milan )
  • Ivory Coast 's Didier Drogba ( Chelsea FC )
  • Cameroon 's Samuel Eto'o ( Inter Milan )
  • Spain Cesc Fabregas ( Arsenal )
  • Uruguay Diego Forlan ( Atletico Madrid)
  • Asamoah Gyan Ghana ( Stade Rennes, Sunderland AFC )
  • Spain Xavi (FC Barcelona)
  • Spain Andrés Iniesta ( FC Barcelona)
  • Germany Miroslav Klose (Bayern Munich)
  • Germany Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich)
  • Brazil Maicón ( Inter Milan )
  • Argentina 's Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona, ​​last year's winner )
  • Germany Thomas Müller (Bayern Munich)
  • Germany Mesut Özil ( Werder Bremen, Real Madrid)
  • Spain Carles Puyol (FC Barcelona)
  • Netherlands Arjen Robben (Bayern Munich)
  • Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
  • Germany Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munich)
  • Netherlands Wesley Sneijder ( Inter Milan )
  • Spain 's David Villa ( Valencia CF, FC Barcelona)
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