Chelsea stars Kante and Hazard are nominated for 2018 Ballon D'or
2018 Ballon d’Or
nominees has been released and this time the award will take place in Paris on
3rd December 2018. The Ballon d'or has been dominated by Lionel Messi and
Cristiano Ronaldo over the past decade (5 times winners, each), but as we saw with
FIFA’s the best award going to Luka Modric, 2018 could bring a changing
of the guard.
Two Chelsea players who
will be hoping that is indeed the case are Eden Hazard and N’Golo Kante, both
of whom are nominated for the second consecutive year. Kante finished 8th and
Hazard 19th in last year’s field of 30 nominees.
These are the 30
nominees for the 2018 Ballon d’Or :
1. Sergio Aguero (Argentina / Manchester City)
2. Alisson (Brazil / Roma & Liverpool)
3. Gareth Bale (Wales / Real Madrid)
4. Karim Benzema (France / Real Madrid)
5. Edinson Cavani (Uruguay / PSG)
6. Thibaut Courtois (Belgium / Chelsea & Real
Madrid)
7. Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal / Real Madrid &
Juventus)
8. Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium / Manchester City)
9. Roberto Firmino (Brazil / Liverpool)
10. Diego Godin (Uruguay / Atlético Madrid)
11. Antoine Griezmann (France / Atlético Madrid)
12. Eden Hazard (Belgium / Chelsea)
13. Isco (Spain / Real Madrid)
14. Harry Kane (England / Tottenham)
15. N’Golo Kante (France / Chelsea)
16. Hugo Lloris (France / Tottenham)
17. Mario Mandzukic (Croatia / Juventus)
18. Sadio Mané (Senegal / Liverpool)
19. Marcelo (Brazil / Real Madrid)
20. Kylian Mbappé (France / PSG)
21. Lionel Messi (Argentina / Barcelona)
22. Luka Modric (Croatia / Real Madrid)
23. Neymar (Brazil / PSG)
24. Jan Oblak (Slovenia / Atletico Madrid)
25. Paul Pogba (France / Manchester United)
26. Ivan Rakitic (Croatia / Barcelona)
27. Mohamed Salah (Egypt / Liverpool)
28. Sergio Ramos (Spain / Real Madrid)
29. Luis Suarez (Uruguay / Barcelona)
30. Raphael Varane (France / Real Madrid
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