KIEV: In an age when individual awards are given ever greater importance, Saturday’s Champions League final between Real Madrid and Liverpool – and Cristiano Ronaldo and Mohamed Salah – could determine the winner of the next Ballon d’Or. But this is the era of the individual, at a time when Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have dominated the Ballon d’Or for a decade. Whether that would be enough to land the Ballon d’Or as well is something that seems to split his team-mates. “But what if Messi and Ronaldo win the World Cup? I don’t know what do you have to look at to win the Ballon D’Or,” said Georginio Wijnaldum this week.

Source: New Strait Times May 23, 2018 21:56 UTC