A journalist from Sri Lanka earned himself a popularity for some ‘attention-grabbing’ decisions within the Ballon d’Or voting, with a few of his earlier winners together with Leonardo Bonucci and Trent Alexander-Arnold.
So how does the voting system work? Within the build-up to Monday’s ceremony on the Theatre du Chatelet, a journalist from every of the highest 100 nations within the FIFA world rankings chosen their prime 5 gamers from a 30-man shortlist.
With reference to level scoring, the participant ranked first on a voter’s type will obtain six factors; second is given 4; third – three factors; fourth – two factors and fifth is one.
If gamers are tied on general factors, the variety of first-place votes might be used as a tie-breaker.
After the ceremony is completed and dusted, votes might be made public, that means each journalist might be analysed [and potentially scrutinised] for his or her decisions.
In years passed by, there have been some ‘uncommon’ voting patterns, to say the least. And maybe essentially the most notorious of all of them comes from Sri Lanka.
The Each day Information journalist Hafiz Marikar has a wild historical past relating to the Ballon d’Or.
To kick issues off, Marikareve pulled no punches in 2017 when he opted for prime 5 of Harry Kane, Eden Hazard, Radamel Falcao, David de Gea and his winner, Leonardo Bonucci, who had simply reached a Champions League remaining with Juventus.
A 12 months later, he determined to vote for Eden Hazard as his primary, with Liverpool ahead Roberto Firmino coming in second forward of Paul Pogba, Cristiano Ronaldo and Harry Kane.
Lastly, in 2019, Marikar ended his three-year stint on the Ballon d’Or voting panel along with his most outrageous shout.
The journalist picked full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold as his winner for 2019. In fact, Trent’s intelligent corner-kick towards Barcelona within the Champions League was actually spectacular, however was it sufficient to warrant the coveted prize?
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Antoine Griezmann accomplished his prime three, whereas Robert Lewandowski and Marc-Andre Ter Stegen have been his fourth and fifth votes.
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