FIFA Golden

The Real Madrid attacker Cristiano Ronaldo has said that it would be extremely honourable to receive the FIFA Ballon d’Or award for the second time in his career. The former Manchester United star has already won the FIFA Ballon d’Or award once in his career when he was playing for Manchester United.

Even though he has scored a lot of goals for Real Madrid in the last few seasons, he has been consistently outplayed by Lionel Messi when it comes to winning this award. However, this time around the Real Madrid have won the league title, while Barcelona have not won anything.

After a very impressive and not yet finished spree in the transfer window Inter Milan have really added quality to their ranks.

At the back-end of last season Inter president gave Claudio Ranieri the boot and made young Andrea Strammacioni the manager. With the charismatic young man at the helm Inter looked much more positive and in their final home game of the season they beat city and eternal rivals AC Milan 4-2.

Paris St Germain and Argentina midfielder Javier Pastore has said that he is confident that his fellow countryman Lionel Messi will be able to lift the FIFA Ballon d'Or award for the fourth consecutive time.

Barcelona midfielder Javier Mascherano has said that he expects star striker Lionel Messi to lift the FIFA Ballon d’Or award this season. The FIFA Ballon d’Or is one of the most coveted awards given to the exceptional player during a season.

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Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo has said that his season with the club has been outstanding, while he will give a 9/10 rating for the achievements of his teammates. Cristiano Ronaldo has been one of the best attacking players in the world for quite a few years.

Accusations from Royston Drenthe of racial abuse directed his way by the world best player, Lionel Messi have been rejected by Barcelona. The Catalan giants have quickly leapt to the defence of their man after Drenthe’s comments this week.

Drenthe is currently on loan at Everton but is currently side lined for his own disciplinary problems. He made the accusations against Messi in an interview with the Dutch magazine, Helden. He claimed he was taunted by Messi in their El Classico meetings in La Liga, with the Argentine calling him “negro” on a number of occasions.

Argentina football legend Diego Maradona has said that his Brazilian counterpart Pele is stupid for comparing Lionel Messi with Brazilian sensation Neymar.

Neymar has been linked with a move to some of the best clubs across the world in the summer transfer window. This has led to Pele saying that Neymar could one day win the FIFA World Player of the Year award.

AC Milan CEO Adriano Galliani has said that AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has the ability and the skill to win the FIFA Ballon d'Or award one day.

Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic is currently the top scorer in the Italian Serie A alongside Udinese striker Antonio Di Natale. However, he is widely expected to be crowned as the Italian Serie A player of the year for his exploits with AC Milan this season.

Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli has come out with a statement saying that he is may well capable of winning the Ballon d'Or award.

The FIFA Ballon d'Or award is regarded as one of the crowning awards for a player. Only a handful of players have won it in recent years. Barcelona striker Lionel Messi, who is believed to be the best player in the world right now, has won it three times in the last few years.