Ballon D’or 2019 Voting List: Voting list for Ballon D’or 2019 revealed after Lionel Messi bags award

Tanish Chachra | 03/12/2019
Ballon D'or 2019 Voting List: Voting list for Ballon D'or 2019 revealed after Lionel Messi bags award

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

Who voted from India and to whom?

Ballon D'or 2019 Voting ListDhiman 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?

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.

Post Edited By: Tanish Chachra
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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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