Spain: Cristiano Ronaldo he “stole” the Golden Ball Messi? For the Catalan press, yes

Cristiano Ronaldo may well have won the fourth Ballon d’Or for his great career with more than double points as the runner Lionel Messi , Catalonia, even when we get to challenge this decision. The daily Sport has explained in its Tuesday edition that CR7 won the Ballon d’Or Messi, bad faith and supporting statistics.

On a strictly individual accounts, you can not decide against the Catalan newspaper. The Argentine scored seven more goals than the Portuguese (58 against 51) and has mostly delivered much more assists than his rival (34 against 13).

But as the trophy fell into the hands of France Football, the old criteria resumed their rights, namely the collective dimension of the season of the best players in the world is again reflected in the vote. From this point of view, it was difficult to deprive the winner of the Champions League and Euro 2016 a new Golden Ball, although Sport says Ronaldo has only benefit from the results of the teams in which he played.
Finally, the article accuses France Football have done everything that the Portuguese won the award at the expense of the number 10 of Barcelona. Yes, finally, we especially think they would have preferred that as we all Griezmann be crowned …