Failing to be able to present its famous prize this year, the media organized a big vote among 140 specialized journalists to elect a “legendary eleven” …
Collateral victim – among many others – of the Coronavirus, there will be no Ballon d’Or in 2020. This is the first time since its creation, in 1956, that the prize for the best footballer of the year could not be delivered. Crowned in the last edition, in December 2019, Lionel Messi will therefore have to wait before defending (again) his title. But to make up for the lack, France Football had a brilliant idea …
The media organizing the event decided to call on a jury, made up of 140 specialized journalists from all over the world, giving it an exceptional and otherwise complex mission: to elect the best eleven of all time! After two months of deliberation, which no doubt gave rise to heated debates, the verdict is finally in. This Monday, December 14, 2020, France Football revealed the names so chosen to compose this “Ballon d’Or Dream Team“, as it was officially named. And while we find among the selected essential talents of yesterday and today, there are inevitably also many absent … Notably no tricolor jersey …
Maradona, Pelé, Messi, the two Ronaldo …
Arranged in 3-4-3, this “eleven of legend“Unsurprisingly, it is particularly offensive, notably highlighting footballers who have been crowned, on several occasions, with the prestigious Golden Ball. In the top three we find the kings of the current fields, Cristiano Ronaldo (in attacking left) and Lionel Messi (attacking right), five times and six times respectively, recipients of the trophy, as well as Ronaldo, the Brazilian (center-forward), for his part twice Golden Ball and described here as being “the ace of numbers 9“.
Then place, in attacking circles, two other legends. “legends among legends“, even comments France Football, since it is Pelé and Diego Maradona, please. At the heart of this definitely legendary eleven, in fact, the heavyweights of Brazil and Argentina surround the “middle bosses“What are Xavi, the former Spanish sidekick of Messi at Barça, and Lothar Matthäus, emblematic Mannschaft captain of the 1980s and 1990s.
A sacred defense, too
The latter is then joined by a compatriot by the name of Franz Beckenbauer, “the kaiser of defense“, who can count on two former Rossoneri at his side: the king of Milan Paolo Maldini, on the left side, and again a Brazilian artist, Cafu, on the right side. Finally, in the cages, we find none other than the Russian Lev Yachine, the only goalkeeper in history to have won a Golden Ball (it was in 1963…), which also gave its name to the new trophy now rewarding the best goalkeepers at the prestigious ceremony.
And this is how, as good French people, our first instinct would now be to shout: “What? No Zizou ?!“Zinédine Zidane, just like Michel Platini, to name only the greatest legends of the Hexagon, who could have claimed a small place in this eleven, were therefore ultimately not selected. shakes up, in numbers 10 …
Now that we have made you dream with this absolute Dream Team concocted by France Football, we invite you to find the best of football, the real one, on RMC Sport. With in particular an unmissable event, soon, for the current great talents of European turf: the knockout stages of the Champions League, to be found exclusively next February on the channel available from the SFR box.
Sources : France Football, Eurosport, The team
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