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Previous Liverpool as well as Actual Madrid demonstrator Michael Owen thinks Robert Lewandowski deserves winning the 2021 Ballon d’Or honor. In spite of an excellent job, 33-year-old Lewandowski has yet to be crowned as the very best gamer on the planet. Nonetheless, he has actually been called as one of the 30 prospects in this year’s shortlist along with previous champions Lionel Messi as well as Cristiano Ronaldo.
In the most up to date version of FOOTBALL NOW, Euronews talked solely to Owen, that won the Ballon d’Or in 2001, after a period that saw him win 3 prizes for Liverpool. In spite of their solid projects, Owen does not believe this year’s honor must most likely to Messi or Ronaldo.
” It’s really open this year. Obviously, Messi as well as Ronaldo over the last years or two have actually controlled it. I would certainly state Messi, out of both of them, is most likely in advance of both this period for the honor, most likely as a result of his ventures with Argentina as well as winning the prize at a global degree.
With 6 Ballon d’Ors to his name, Messi is the competitors’s document owner as well as the Paris St Germain ahead is the much-loved to grab the honor once more. With 40 objectives as well as 14 helps, in addition to Copa America as well as Golden Boot prizes to his name, the Argentine has actually had an additional fantastic period, yet Owen is backing Lewandowski:
” I assumed Lewandowski was so unfavorable not to win it in the COVID year when it was, it was certainly put on hold or terminated that year, as well as I would most likely opt for him. There are various other prospects, do not obtain me incorrect, Mo Salah’s had a fantastic period, although he’s not won anything. Jorginho, on the various other hand, for Chelsea, (has) won every little thing. Yet I’m uncertain he’s possibly sufficient to win it in advance of gamers like Lewandowski, therefore I ‘d most likely opt for him. He’s won the Bundesliga once more. His numbers are rather incredible. His objectives in the in 2015. So I believe I would certainly opt for Lewandowski. It would certainly be an outright criminal offense if he underwent his job without winning. He’s a sensational gamer.”
The German has actually thus far generated 54 objectives in 2021, a tally greater than any type of various other gamer in Europe, although his most remarkable accomplishment returned in Might when he damaged fellow citizen Gerd Muller’s document of 41 Bundesliga objectives in one period, a number that several assumed might never ever be exceeded.
HISTORY
The Ballon d’Or was established by France Football in 1956. The magazine assembles the 30-man shortlist. Reporters from around the globe elect their much-loved gamer based upon 3 points:
1. Person as well as cumulative efficiencies throughout the year
2. Gamer course
3. Total judgment of the gamer’s job
The top-level gamer from each reporter’s option will certainly obtain 6 factors, with the second-ranking gamer making 4 factors, after that 3, 2, as well as one dropping from the remainder of their leading 5 choices.
Owen relinquished football in 2013, as well as in spite of winning the English Premier Organization, 2 Golden Boot honors, the FA Mug as well as the UEFA Mug, the previous demonstrator claims the Ballon d’Or is the prize every person intends to speak to him concerning:
” Place it in this manner, if a person strolls right into my residence currently, as well as they search in the prize closet, the initial point they most likely to, in advance of the Premier Organization as well as FA Cups as well as anything else, the initial point they check out is the Ballon d’Or.”
In spite of playing in various organizations, the jobs of Owen as well as Lewandowski have actually commonly mirrored each various other. Yet, like Owen, if Lewandowski was to win the Ballon d’Or, you can be positive it’ll be the initial point every person intends to talk to him around when he hangs up his boots.
