This Monday the 2021 Ballon d’Or is awarded in Paris. After the stoppage of the prestigious award for the pandemic, the traditional red carpet of football is recovered with Leo Messi, once again, as the favorite for the award given by ‘France Football’.
The exculé, now in the ranks of Paris Saint-Germain, has the conquest of the Copa América -after three lost finals with the albiceleste- as the best endorsement, despite his irregular season dressed for the last time as a Barça player, in the who was also Pichichi of LaLiga Santander and champion of Copa del Rey.
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Thus, ‘la Pulga’ hopes to defend the award it already received in 2019, the last year the awards were given before the suspension in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, and add the seventh to its collection (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 , 2015 and 2019).
Among the main candidates to fight for the trophy are the Polish Robert Lewandowski, champion of the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich and current Golden Boot, or the French Karim Benzema, who has been filled with stripes at Real Madrid. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner, Manchester United’s Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, is another of those who are always in the pools, although this year he could figure a notch below.
The gala will begin at 20:30 and can be followed live on MEGA and minute by minute.