Ang 2022 Ballon d’Or will be delivered on October 17 in Paris, announced this Tuesday France Football, in an edition already introducing a regulation which will change during the review period (this will be every season and not every year) and will reduce the number of journalists who can vote.
On Friday, August 12, when the nominees for the 66th edition of the trophy will be announced who will receive male and female awards, in addition to the nominees for the trophy. cupawarded to the best player under 21 years of age, and the trophy Yashinto the best goalkeeper.
The latest winners
Leo Messi (Paris Saint-Germain) won the last men’s Ballon d’Or, Alexia Putellas (FC Barcelona), women’s; Pedro Gonzalez (FC Barcelona), the Cup trophy and, Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint-Germain) of the Yashin trophy.
The change of format brings about a change during the review period, for example, that the World Cup in Qatar next November and December will not enter the prize accounts for this year. However, the women’s battles in Europe, played in July, will be counted.
France Football also wants the standard of “individual and decisive performance” to be heavier than collective results and fair play, which would be secondary. Another criterion that provided points, player history, was removed to allow for new names.
There will be 100 journalists who will choose the winner of the trophy, one for each country, compared to the 170 that have until the last edition, and they will represent the highest ranked countries in the FIFA rankings.
In the case of Women’s Ballon d’OrOnly 50 expert journalists can vote.
The nomination criteria will also change in this new edition. The list will not only be established by journalists from France Football and L’Équipe, but the Ivorian will also intervene Didier Drogbaambassador of golden balland the two journalists whose vote was the most understood in the last edition.
For the next men’s award, it was Vietnamese Truong Anh Ngoc (from The Thao & Van Hoa), who tracked down the top five finishers of the last Ballon d’Or with his vote. For women’s, it’s the Czech Karolina Hlavackova (Ruik).
Source: La Verdad

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