The Coronavirus crisis posed strange odds that football had not known before, including the idea of canceling the season, which in turn will complicate the process of choosing the winner of the Ballon d'Or for 2020.
In the event that the new Corona Virus cancels the soccer season this year, journalists will have to choose the best footballer of the season, based on January and February only.
And in the event that this strange possibility is applied, the competition for the Ballon d'Or award will be confined to a specific number of football stars, who shine remarkably in two months, before the suspension of all competitions, namely:
Cristiano Ronaldo
Ronaldo is considered the most prominent candidate to win the Ballon d'Or, and the equalizer of his rivals Lionel Messi six.
Ronaldo is the top scorer for 2020 in the major European leagues, scoring 13 goals in 11 games, a difficult number, unlike any European scorer.
Robert Lewandowski
The Polish striker may be closest to Ronaldo, with Bayern Munich scored 9 goals from 8 games, including exceptional performance in the most important team match against Chelsea in the Champions League.
Erling Braut Haland
The Norwegian teenager swept in 2020 surprisingly, scoring 12 goals from 11 games, at the start of his career with his new team Borussia Dortmund, but failed to lead him to cross the round of 16 of the Champions League.
Neymar
The Brazilian Neymar regained his luster in 2020, and led his team, Paris Saint-Germain, to skip the 16th round of the Champions League, which represented a knot for the French champions in recent years.
Neymar scored 9 goals from 10 games, including two against Dortmund.
Killian Mbappe
Like Neymar, Mbappe starred with his team Saint-Germain, especially in the French Cup, where he scored a hat-trick against Lyon and led his team to the final.
Mbappe scored this year’s pre-stop goal rate, scoring 12 goals in 14 games.
Ciro Imobelli
Imobili scored 10 goals from 10 games this year with his Italian team, Lazio, and helped him compete for the league title for the first time since 2000.
Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi, the Argentine star, retreated slightly in 2020, and suffered a scoring fast that continued for 4 consecutive league matches, but he scored 9 goals from 13 games, perhaps it will not be enough to guarantee Messi's Ballon d'Or for the seventh time.
Kevin De Bruyne
The only Belgian Kevin de Bruyne that showed remarkable brilliance in 2020, among the stars of the English Premier League.
His performance against Real Madrid in the Champions League could be the best single-player performance in 2020, as he led Manchester City to a 3-1 victory in Madrid, scoring a goal and making another.
Cancellation
Among the possibilities mentioned for the Ballon d'Or award is its cancellation just like the cancellation of the major tournaments, to register the award an unprecedented void in its records.
The return of football matches at the end of the year will represent a new opportunity for football stars, to rise in the award nominations, and may impose new players entering the list of candidates.
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