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Showing posts with label ballon d'or. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ballon d'or. Show all posts

Monday, 9 October 2017

Kane On Ballon D'Or 2017 List....Bale Misses Out

Tottenham striker Harry Kane has joined Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Neymar on the 30-man Ballon d'Or 2017 shortlist.
Kane On Ballon D'Or 2017 List....Bale Misses Out
Kane is one of seven Premier League players nominated, with Liverpool duo Philippe Coutinho and Sadio Mane also up for France Football's prestigious award.
Chelsea pair N'Golo Kante and Eden Hazard, Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea and Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne also make the list.
Gareth Bale, who finished sixth in last year's rankings, did not make the list.
The Ballon d'Or, which was aligned with FIFA from 2010 to 2015, has been won by either Ronaldo or Messi for the past nine years.

Gareth Bale did not make the final shortlist
Gareth Bale did not make the final shortlist
Ronaldo picked up his fourth Ballon d'Or last year to move one behind Messi, and the Portugal and Real Madrid forward is odds-on favourite to make it five this time around.
Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, Real Madrid trio Sergio Ramos, Marcelo and Luka Modric, and Barcelona striker Luis Suarez have also been shortlisted.
The Ballon d'Or is judged solely by a panel of journalists after FIFA and France Football ended their partnership in 2015.
In September, Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar were nominated as finalists for the Best FIFA Men's Player award.

Cristiano Ronaldo is odds-on favourite to win his fifth Ballon d'Or award
Cristiano Ronaldo is odds-on favourite to win his fifth Ballon d'Or award

Ballon d'Or 2017 final shortlist

  • Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund)
  • Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)
  • Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus)
  • Edinson Cavani (PSG)
  • Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool)
  • Kevin De Bruyne (Man City)
  • David de Gea (Man Utd)
  • Paulo Dybala (Juventus)
  • Edin Dzeko (Roma)
  • Radamel Falcao (Monaco)
  • Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid)
  • Mats Hummels (Bayern Munich)
  • Harry Kane (Tottenham)
  • N'Golo Kante (Chelsea)
  • Toni Kroos (Real Madrid)
  • Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)
  • Sadio Mane (Liverpool)
  • Marcelo (Real Madrid)
  • Dries Mertens (Napoli)
  • Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
  • Luka Modric (Real Madrid)
  • Neymar (PSG)
  • Jan Oblak (Atletico Madrid)
  • Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid)
  • Luis Suarez (Barcelona)
  • Eden Hazard (Chelsea)
  • Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
  • Leonardo Bonucci (AC Milan)
  • Kylian Mbappe (PSG)
  • Isco (Real Madrid)
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Thursday, 14 September 2017

Is Tottenham striker "HARRY KANE" a potential Ballon d'Or winner?

Harry Kane continued his quest to "break into that world-class bracket" with two goals in Tottenham's 3-1 Champions League group-stage win over Borussia Dortmund.
Is Tottenham striker "HARRY KANE" a potential Ballon d'Or winner?
The 24-year-old England striker also scored twice in a 3-0 win at Everton in the Premier League on Saturday, which brought up his century of goals for Spurs.
He now has 103 Tottenham goals in 170 games, including 30 in his past 22 matches for club and country.
But is this enough for him to be considered world-class? And will he ever claim the ultimate individual prize in world football, the Ballon d'Or?

Why would Kane want to win the Ballon d'Or?

Harry-kane-vs-Dortmund

Ballon d'Or winners
2016: Cristiano Ronaldo
2009: Lionel Messi
2015: Lionel Messi
2008: Cristiano Ronaldo
2014: Cristiano Ronaldo
2007: Kaka
2013: Cristiano Ronaldo
2006: Fabio Cannavaro
2012: Lionel Messi
2005: Ronaldinho
2011: Lionel Messi
2004: Andriy Shevchenko
2010: Lionel Messi
2003: Pavel Nedved

It is football's Everest, Olympic gold, Oscar - the pinnacle of a player's career.
In June, Kane expressed his desire to join an elite group that includes Sir Bobby Charlton, Johan Cruyff, Franz Beckenbauer, Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.

"I'd do whatever I can to win that big gold trophy. It is definitely something I aspire to do," he said.
"Cristiano Ronaldo won La Liga and the Champions League and that is why he wins it. Messi is in a similar situation.
"To do that it isn't just individual, it is about a team winning trophies and, hopefully, that is what I can do at Tottenham."
That poses the question...

Does he need to leave Spurs to become the best?


Goals for Tottenham: 103. Trophies: 0.

Former Manchester United and Everton defender Phil Neville said Kane, 24, may have to move to claim more team and individual honours.
"He could have to leave Spurs to become that top, top, world-class Robert Lewandowski-type player," said Neville.
"If they maintain being a top-four team, that will not be good enough for Harry Kane.
"He needs to be challenging for Ballons d'Or.

He needs to be challenging for Champions Leagues and if Spurs are always going to be that 'nearly team', eventually he will want to leave and join a Real Madrid or a Barcelona.
"There will always be a doubt about Harry Kane until he gets to that level."
Kyle Walker left Tottenham for Manchester City this summer in order to "win a trophy", while fellow full-back Danny Rose suggested in August he might leave because of Spurs' perceived lack of transfer activity.
According to Neville, Tottenham may need to end their nine-year barren run without a trophy soon if they are to hold on to Kane.
What is Kane worth in today's market?
If Tottenham decide to sell their prize asset, what sum could they get?
Harry kane-vs-Dortmund-champions-league
According to the International Centre for Sports Studies' transfer value widget, Kane is now valued at 170.2m euros (£153.5m) - up 10.8% from the figure in June.
He has scored more than 30 goals for club and country combined in each of the past three seasons and his Spurs contract expires in 2022.
If he continues scoring at his current rate, his value could be even higher by the end of this campaign.

Why is Kane so good?

Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino dscribed Kane as "world-class" following Wednesday's win over Dortmund.
Neville, co-commentating on the match, said: "Kane has the killer instinct of [ex-Netherlands striker] Ruud van Nistelrooy.
"He runs around and bullies defenders like Chelsea's Diego Costa. He is the most complete centre-forward I have seen for some time.
"All centre-forwards are selfish. Van Nistelrooy used to punch the shower and rip the shower head off if he hadn't scored.
"Kane has got that but he also has that other side where he is an unbelievable team player."

Who is better than Kane?


A provocative question, which no doubt has many of you shouting "Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid" or "Barcelona's Lionel Messi".
But neither of those current players - nor Paris St-Germain's £200m forward Neymar - had the sort of stellar start to their careers that Kane has had.
He scored his first 100 club goals in only 169 games. Last year's Ballon d'Or winner Ronaldo took 253, although Ronaldo did not begin as an out-and-out striker.
Ronaldo had scored 529 club goals by the end of last season - a rate of 35.26 goals per season since he began his senior career in 2002.
Kane's current rate is 31.33 after three full seasons with Spurs.
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