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Oct 2019
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Ballon d'Or Season of 2019

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who is likely to win the Ballon d'Or?



Ballon d'Or nominees from each team.

Liverpool: Van Dijk, Firmino, Alisson, Wijnaldum, Alexander-Arnold, Mane and Salah.

Manchester City: De Bruyne, Mahrez, Bernardo Silva, Aguero and Sterling.

Barcelona: Leo Messi, Griezmann, Ter Stegen and De Jong.

Real Madrid: Benzema and Hazard.

Tottenham: Son, and Lloris.

Ajax: Van de Beek and Tadic.

Juventus: Cristiano Ronaldo and De Ligt.

PSG: Mbappe and Marquinhos.

Atletico Madrid: Joao Felix.

Napoli: Koulibaly.

Bayern Munich: Lewandowski.

Arsenal: Aubameyang.



The Ballon d'Or is an annual football award presented by France Football. It has been awarded since 1956, although between 2010 and 2015, an agreement was made with FIFA and the award was temporarily merged with the FIFA World Player of the Year, and known as the FIFA Ballon d'Or.

Jaime de la Fuente, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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