The Golden Ball is a great nonsense: are there 30 better players than Messi in this 2022?

One can object if Leone Messi The current one, the one from last season, is still the best in the world. Indeed, in football you can discuss everything Because there are no absolute truths.

What there is, sometimes, there is absolute nonsense how to consider that 30 players are above a Messi who, even in a lighter version, is still Messi.

Probably Nkunku, Maignan, Rüdiger, just to name a few in the group of the 30 best of Messi, are even ashamed to be on that list where Rosario’s crack does not appear. Nobody is unaware that Lionel did not have a level at Paris Saint-Germain according to his galactic curriculumsomething that paradoxically begins to play against him in every confrontation.

However, this Messi who couldn’t bring PSG to his European consecration, who ended a season with the lowest effectiveness of his adult career, who was recycled from explosive scorer to serial assistant, this Messi, with all these asterisks, is still a brand and one of the best players in the world.

In the time under analysis, the captain of the Argentine national team was below Karim Benzema, like almost all footballers in the world. Maybe even at Mbappé, or if we are very demanding with Leo, at Salah, Mané, De Bruyne … And that’s it. The rest is total nonsense.

All the candidates for the Ballon d’Or

1- Thibaut Courtois (Belgium, Real Madrid)

2- Rafael Leão (Portugal, Milan)

3- Christopher Nkunku (France, Leipzig)

4- Mohamed Salah (Egypt, Liverpool)

5- Joshua Kimmich (Germany, Bayern Munich)

6- Trent Alexander-Arnold (England, Liverpool)

7- Vinicius Jr (Brazil, Real Madrid)

8- Bernardo Silva (Portugal, Manchester City)

9- Luis Diaz (Colombia, Liverpool)

10- Robert Lewandowski (Poland, Barcelona)

11- Mike Maignan (France, Milan)

12- Harry Kane (England, Tottenham)

13- Darwin Nunez (Uruguay, Liverpool)

14- Phil Foden (England, Manchester City)

15- Sadio Mané (Senegal, Bayern Munich)

16- Riyad Mahrez (Algeria, Manchester City)

17- Casemiro (Brazil, Real Madrid)

18- Heung-Min Son (South Korea, Tottenham)

19- Fabinho (Brazil, Liverpool)

20- Karim Benzema (France, Real Madrid)

21- Sébastien Haller (Ivory Coast, Borussia Dortmund)

22- Luka Modrić (Croatia, Real Madrid)

23- Antonio Rüdiger (Germany, Real Madrid)

24- Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal, Manchester United)

25- Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium, Manchester City)

26- Dusan Vlahovic (Serbia, Juventus)

27- Virgil van Dijk (Holland, Liverpool)

28- Joao Cancelo (Portugal, Manchester City)

29- Kylian Mbappé (France, Paris Saint-Germain)

30- Erling Haaland (Norway, Manchester City)