In the year 2010 the Ballon d’Or was supposed to be given to the 🇳🇱 Wesley Sneijder or Andres Iniesta.
By going with the key category for selection of the past winners.
In the particular year Wesley Sneijder won
🏆 Serie A 🏆 Champions League 🏆 Coppa Italia 🏆 Supercoppa Italiana 🏆 Club World Cup 🎖️ UEFA Midfielder of the Year 🥈, World Cup runner-up 🏅 and a World Cup final appearance, but finished fourth place at the 2010 Ballon d’Or award, which is questionable.
Andrés Iniesta, who scored the winning goal against the Netherlands with just four minutes remaining of extra time to help his country to win its first-ever FIFA World Cup, was given second place at the Ballon d’Or. He said it was because of a lack of individual goal-scoring numbers, but what about defenders like Franz Beckenbauer, Matthias Sammer, and Fabio Cannavaro, who won the award, and only one goalkeeper, Lev Yashin, who won the award? But why did Wesley Sneijder not win the 2010 Ballon d’Or?
2013 was the year Franck Ribéry was ‘robbed’ of the Ballon d’Or.
⚽️ 22 goals
🎯 18 assists
🏆 Champions League
🏆 Bundesliga
🏆 DFB-Pokal
🏆 UEFA Super Cup
The finest year of a stellar career, he led a record-breaking, trophy-winning Bayern Munich to glory on multiple fronts, and he was so unlucky to not be crowned the world’s best footballer.
They won the Champions League at Wembley, putting the disappointment of the previous year behind them, and completed a historic treble by winning the Bundesliga and the DFB-Pokal before finishing their haul with a UEFA Super Cup win over Chelsea.
He’ll forever be in Bayern history after providing the assist for Arjen Robben in the Champions League final against Borussia Dortmund, and he also scored in the Super Cup victory over Chelsea.
In perhaps the most telling sign he should have been awarded football’s most prestigious award, he won the UEFA Player of the Season for the 2012/13 campaign.
Ribéry won two more trophies than Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo combined, yet finished third in the overall rankings.