The FIFA has announced this Friday the finalists for the award The Best and the surprise has been that Jorginho, footballer of the Chelsea, has been left out of the list of the three nominees.
Leo messi, champion of Golden Ball just over a month ago, it will compete with Ropen Lewandowski Y Mohamed Salah for getting an award that both the Argentine and the Polish have achieved. The award is presented, along with the rest of the FIFA The Best gala, on January 17.
In fact, the last two champions of The Best are surely the favorites. Lewandowski, a Bayern Munich player, took him in 2020 after a stratospheric and record-breaking season in the Bundesliga, while Leo Messi took him in 2019.
Both, surely, are the favorites to take this The Best. You can leave as a favorite Leo messi for having already won the Ballon d’Or, although it was in a tight way. The Paris Saint Germain player has not spent some good last months in his new team, but he lifted the Copa América with Argentina being the absolute leader of the team and also the Copa del Rey with Barça, with which he scored 28 goals in 2021 .
LewandowskiFor one more season, he was unstoppable again in the face of goal and was essential for Bayern to triumph in the Bundesliga, as well as in the Super Cup. The Pole scored 43 goals in 34 games in 2021, setting a record in Germany.
The one who has sneaked in, and with merit, has been Mohamed Salah, who has surely been the best player in the world in the second half of 2021. The Egyptian has left with Liverpool, with 16 goals and 9 assists so far in the Premier League, making unlikely plays.
Jorginho, the bitter surprise
Regarding the finalists of the Golden Ball, the one who has fallen from the three finalists has been Jorginho, which last year was champion of the Champions League and the European Championship, with an important role in both teams, although perhaps they did not perform at the same level individually.
Own Sami khedira, in charge of saying the finalists, clarified that “the award is individual, not group”, to explain the absence of the Italian-Brazilian, who was ranked third in the award given by L’Equip.
Other absences that can be talked about are those of Erling Haaland or Kylian Mbappé, the two top favorites to fight for The Best in the coming years.