FIFA Ballon d'Or 2010

World Footballer of the Year 2010
Lionel Messi

The 55th Ballon d'Or ( French for Golden Ball ) was awarded jointly for the first time in 2010 by France Football magazine and the world football association FIFA under the new name FIFA Ballon d'Or . For the fourth time, the world's best footballer of the year was honored. From 1956 to 2006 this trophy was awarded to Europe's Footballer of the Year. It is not identical to the World Footballer of the Year award given by FIFA between 1991 and 2009 , which will no longer be replaced in 2010 as a result of the agreement between France Football and the world governing body. After the three best players had already been published on December 6, 2010 - without their respective placement on the “podium” - the final result was announced on January 10, 2011 at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich . The winner of the Ballon d'Or 2010 was last year's winner Lionel Messi ahead of Andrés Iniesta and Xavi Hernández . All three players were under contract with FC Barcelona at the time .

Voting mode

The prize is awarded by a jury made up of 147 national coaches , 143 national team captains and 154 specialist journalists. Each of them gives five, three or one point to three players from a list jointly set by the France Football editorial team and FIFA. The performance of the players is to be recognized throughout the respective calendar year. Since the three groups of voters have different numbers of voters, but the votes of these three “electoral colleges” should each account for exactly one third of the total result, the absolute scores are then converted into percentages and published in this way.

Result

placement	Surname	nationality	society	Share of votes
1.	Lionel Messi	Argentina	FC Barcelona	22.65%
2.	Andrés Iniesta	Spain	FC Barcelona	17.36%
3.	Xavi	Spain	FC Barcelona	16.48%
4th	Wesley Sneijder	Netherlands	Inter Milan	14.48%
5.	Diego Forlan	Uruguay	Atlético Madrid	7.61%
6th	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	real Madrid	3.92%
7th	Iker Casillas	Spain	real Madrid	2.90%
8th.	David Villa	Spain	FC Valencia / FC Barcelona	2.25%
9.	Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	Chelsea FC	1.68%
10.	Xabi Alonso	Spain	real Madrid	1.52%

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

statistics

A total of 426 jurors from 185 countries voted, including 154 journalists and 136 coaches or captains of the respective national team. So 18 of the 444 voters did not vote. In exceptional cases, some (partial) votes were deleted, for example Bert van Marwijk and Mark van Bommel , who each illegally placed their compatriot Wesley Sneijder in first place - van Bommel and Arjen Robben in second.

Overall, the result this year at the top was tighter than in the two previous years. The participation of three groups of jurors, introduced in 2010, was also reflected in a more differentiated picture, even if there was overall unanimity about the best four players:

Journalists' votes

The overall fourth Sneijder (320 points, 35 first places) prevailed ahead of Iniesta (313/40), Xavi Hernández (248/36) and Messi (182/18).

Votes from the national coaches

This group had the same order in the first four places, which was also reflected in the overall result: Messi, who was at the top on 51 ballots, clearly ahead of Iniesta (23), Xavi Hernández (27) and Sneijder (9). There was only a difference in fifth and sixth place: for the coach, Cristiano Ronaldo was ahead of Diego Forlán.

Votes by the national team captains

The players also saw Messi as the best of the year (45 first places), but then Xavi Hernández (26) followed in front of Iniesta (17) and in fourth place Sneijder (15).

Votes from the German-speaking countries in detail

• Germany
  • Karlheinz Wild (KICKER Sportmagazin): 1. Sneijder, 2. Messi, 3. Robben
  • Joachim Löw : 1st Xavi Hernández, 2nd Messi, 3rd Forlán
  • Philipp Lahm : 1. Iniesta, 2. Sneijder, 3. Messi
• Liechtenstein
  • Ernst Hasler (Liechtenstein Fatherland): 1. Sneijder, 2. Xavi Hernández, 3. Villa
  • Hans-Peter Zaugg : 1st Xavi Hernández, 2nd Messi, 3rd Iniesta
  • Mario Frick : 1st Messi, 2nd Eto'o, 3rd Iniesta
• Luxembourg
  • Christophe Nadin (La Voix du Luxembourg): 1. Iniesta, 2. Sneijder, 3. Messi
  • Luc Holtz : 1. Iniesta, 2. Messi, 3. Sneijder
  • Jeff Strasser : 1st Messi, 2nd Iniesta, 3rd Ronaldo
• Austria
  • Walter Kowatsch-Schwarz (freelance journalist): 1. Iniesta, 2. Forlán, 3. Messi
  • Didi Constantini : 1. Iniesta, 2. Villa, 3. Klose
  • Marc Janko : 1st Iniesta, 2nd Xavi Hernández, 3rd Schweinsteiger
• Switzerland
  • Pierre-Alain Dupuis (Télévision Suisse Romande): 1. Iniesta, 2. Sneijder, 3. Forlán
  • Ottmar Hitzfeld : 1st Messi, 2nd Sneijder, 3rd Forlán
  • Alexander Frei : 1st Xavi Hernández, 2nd Schweinsteiger, 3rd Casillas

Nominees

At the end of October, the 23-player group of candidates was announced. In the year of the soccer World Cup , it includes players from the most successful national teams in this tournament - seven players from the world champions Spain alone  - as well as the Champions League winner Inter Milan and the finalist FC Bayern Munich :

Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid)  Dani Alves (FC Barcelona)  Iker Casillas (Real Madrid)  Júlio César (Inter Milan)  Didier Drogba (Chelsea FC)  Samuel Eto'o (Inter Milan)  Cesc Fàbregas (Arsenal FC)  Diego Forlán (Atletico Madrid)  Asamoah Gyan (Rennes Stadium, Sunderland AFC)  Xavi (FC Barcelona)  Andrés Iniesta (FC Barcelona)  Miroslav Klose (Bayern Munich)

Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich)  Maicón (Inter Milan)  Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona, ​​last year's winner)  Thomas Müller (Bayern Munich)  Mesut Özil (Werder Bremen, Real Madrid)  Carles Puyol (FC Barcelona)  Arjen Robben (Bayern Munich)  Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)  Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munich)  Wesley Sneijder (Inter Milan)  David Villa (FC Valencia, FC Barcelona)

See also

• FIFA / FIFPro World XI 2010 (2010 World Selection)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marta and Messi honored with FIFA Ballon d'Or. In: fifa.com. FIFA , accessed November 8, 2014 . 
2. ^ France Football, January 10, 2011
3. ^ France Football of October 26, 2010, pp. 8-19
4. ↑ France Football, January 25, 2011, p. 23
5. ^ The final ranking at France Football
6. ↑ This and all other information in this section based on France Football of January 11, 2011, Supplement “FIFA Ballon d'Or 2010”, in particular pp. 6–15
7. ↑ List of candidates at France Football ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.