Messi and Ronaldo top FIFA World Player of the Year 2014 list

World Football governing body, FIFA today October 28th released its Ballon D’or list for the 2013/2014 season and as expected nominees Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi top the list. Only one African made the list, Yaya Toure from
Ivory Coast. Checkout the full list bellow

2014 FIFA Ballon d’Or shortlist:
Gareth Bale (Wales)

Karim Benzema (France)

Diego Costa (Spain)

Thibaut Courtois (Belgium)

Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)

Angel Di Maria (Argentina)

Mario Gotze (Germany)

Eden Hazard (Belgium)

Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden)

Andres Iniesta (Spain)

Toni Kroos (Germany)

Philipp Lahm (Germany)

Javier Mascherano (Argentina)

Lionel Messi (Argentina)

Thomas Muller (Germany)

Manuel Neuer (Germany)

Neymar (Brazil)

Paul Pogba (France)

Sergio Ramos (Spain)

Arjen Robben (Netherlands)

James Rodriguez (Colombia)

Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany)

Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast)

WoW ! It’s HerexG

WoW ! Messi blamed for Barcelona’s defeat after running just 1 mile more than the KEEPER

Lionel Messi’s failure to have any impact against
Atletico Madrid on Wednesday night and coach
Gerardo Martino’s inability to do anything about it
dominated the inquest into Barcelona’s dismal
Champions League exit.
‘He ran only one mile more than goalkeeper Pinto’
ran one headline as post-match statistics revealed
the Argentine had covered 4.2 miles during the game
– half that of Atletico matchwinner Koke.
‘We weren’t really interested in Leo having a lot of
participation in the game’ were the words that will
come back to haunt Martino after the 1-0 defeat. He
had been asked why Messi saw so little of the ball in
Atletico’s win.

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