Ballon D’or 2019 Voting List: Voting list for Ballon D’or revealed after Lionel Messi bags the award for the sixth time in his glorious career.
Lionel Messi won the Ballon d’Or award for the sixth time in his career. Virgil Van Dijk stood second followed by Cristiano Ronaldo and Sadio Mane in the list respectively.
The voting of Ballon D’or is done by choosing a journalist from each country, who gives the vote by ranking players in the top 5 positions. The player with highest points wins the Ballon d’Or.
In the latest update, Ballon D’or voters throughout the world have been revealed, who decided the rankings of the players into the top 30. After the details of the votes were revealed, it quite had to face a backlash.
Many people accused certain journalists of absurd rankings and few for showing biases and promoting agendas. Which eventually denied deserving candidates of their appropriate rankings.
With this, let’s have a look at the final voting list of Ballon d’Or and the decisions made by the renowned journalists around the world.
Ballon D’or 2019 Voting list
The #BallonDor2019 voting records. Here’s what really matters guys. Have fun. pic.twitter.com/r8d5U7nXYn
— Sport Witness (@Sport_Witness) December 3, 2019
Who voted from India and to whom?
Dhiman Sarkar, the Sports Editor from the Hindustan Times was selected by the France football magazine to vote from India. Sarkar gave his votes to Lionel Messi, Virgil Van Dijk, Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah and Cristiano Ronaldo (preferential ranking in the order of sequence).
The selection of players can be justified by reasoning and looks fair considering the level of performances by the players selected by him and can be called way better than the decision made by the other journalists.
Absurd rankings?
Ok, Sri Lanka, we need to have words. #BallonDor
Think we have a winner. Mind blowing. pic.twitter.com/cyb861C2Ei
— Sport Witness (@Sport_Witness) December 3, 2019
https://twitter.com/_gerrardlucas/status/1201773268413435904?s=20
There were few voters whose votes are specifically called out for the level of absurdity over there selection of players. the representative from Sri Lanka was massively questioned choosing Trent Alexander Arnold as the best player of the season.
Meanwhile, Bhutan chose to go with all-Liverpool top-5 ranking and decided left Messi and Ronaldo out of the contest.
