FIFA Ballon d'Or 2012

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World Footballer of the Year 2012
Lionel Messi

The 57th Ballon d'Or ( French for Golden Ball ) was awarded for the third time in 2012 by France Football magazine and the world football association FIFA under the name FIFA Ballon d'Or . After the three best players had already been published in December 2012 - still without their respective placement on the “podium” - the final result was announced on January 7, 2013 at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich . Lionel Messi was the winner of the Ballon d'Or 2012 - for the fourth time in a row - ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo and Andrés Iniesta .

Voting mode

The prize was awarded by a jury made up of 71 national coaches, 167 national team captains and 170 specialist journalists. Each of them gave 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 should 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 were then converted into percentages and published in this way.

Result

placement Surname nationality society Share of votes
1. Lionel Messi ArgentinaArgentina Argentina SpainSpain FC Barcelona 41.60%
2. Cristiano Ronaldo PortugalPortugal Portugal SpainSpain real Madrid 23.68%
3. Andrés Iniesta SpainSpain Spain SpainSpain FC Barcelona 10.91%
4th Xavi SpainSpain Spain SpainSpain FC Barcelona 4.08%
5. Falcao ColombiaColombia Colombia SpainSpain Atlético Madrid 3.67%
6th Iker Casillas SpainSpain Spain SpainSpain real Madrid 3.18%
7th Andrea Pirlo ItalyItaly Italy ItalyItaly Juventus Turin 2.66%
8th. Didier Drogba Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast EnglandEngland Chelsea FC / Shanghai ShenhuaChina People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  2.60%
9. Robin van Persie NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands EnglandEngland Arsenal FC / Manchester UnitedEnglandEngland  1.45%
10. Zlatan Ibrahimović SwedenSweden Sweden ItalyItaly AC Milan / Paris Saint-GermainFranceFrance  1.24%
11. Xabi Alonso SpainSpain Spain SpainSpain real Madrid 1.09%
12. Yaya Touré Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast EnglandEngland Manchester City 0.76%
13. Neymar BrazilBrazil Brazil BrazilBrazil FC Santos 0.61%
14th Mesut Özil GermanyGermany Germany SpainSpain real Madrid 0.41%
15th Wayne Rooney EnglandEngland England EnglandEngland Manchester United 0.39%
16. Gianluigi Buffon ItalyItaly Italy ItalyItaly Juventus Turin 0.35%
17th Sergio Aguero ArgentinaArgentina Argentina EnglandEngland Manchester City 0.30%
18th Sergio Ramos SpainSpain Spain SpainSpain real Madrid 0.22%
19th Manuel Neuer GermanyGermany Germany GermanyGermany FC Bayern Munich 0.21%
20th Sergio Busquets SpainSpain Spain SpainSpain FC Barcelona 0.20%
21st Gerard Piqué SpainSpain Spain SpainSpain FC Barcelona 0.11%
Karim Benzema FranceFrance France SpainSpain real Madrid 0.11%
23. Mario Balotelli ItalyItaly Italy EnglandEngland Manchester City 0.07%

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Radiant winners and emotional moments. In: fifa.com. FIFA , accessed November 8, 2014 .
  2. World Footballer of the Year 2012. In: fussball-wm-total.de. FOOTBALL WORLD CUP total, January 8, 2013, accessed on January 14, 2014 .