VIRGIL VAN DIJK is now favourite to become the first defender since Fabio Cannavaro in 2006 to win the Ballon d'Or.
The Liverpool colossus has surged ahead of close rival Lionel Messi after Argentina's knockout to Brazil in the Copa America semi-final.
Messi, a five-time winner of the prestigious award, failed to score or register an assist in the competition before his country suffered a 2-0 defeat against their South American rivals.
Van Dijk, 27, was instrumental in Liverpool's success last season as they went onto lift the Champions League.
If he does win the Ballon d'Or he will become the first Liverpool player to claim it since Michael Owen in 2001.
The bookies have him as 4/6 favourite with Messi narrowly behind with odds of 6/5.
After that and seemingly out of the running is Cristiano Ronaldo who is priced at 12/1.
fiycdopuyz
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messi will win the badluck d'or [Crylaugh][Crylaugh]
fiobemnstz
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why not alison if he wins copa America my pick would be 1 alison 2 vvd 3 bernardo silva 4 messi 5 Ronaldo
baronAskia7Z
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van Dijk dnt deserve it.. just as modric didn't deserve it last year.. if Messi can't take it no one can Messi performance this season no one matched it
Sohabcklpu
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why not his stats are better than him..if u kw where I'm coming from
Zepbeilorz
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barcans say messi deserves the balon dor ....u guys r blind ....cristiano may not be the favourite to win the award but the thing his 31 goals were more meaningful to his club and country than messi's 53 goals .......a new league ....no worries.....won the mvp of serie A.....when called for national duty .....banged and stunned everyone with a perfect hattrick.......I m not critisizing messi but he was no where in the just passed copa ......could not maintain 4--0 advantage over Liverpool......was outplayed in the copa del rey ...........Juventus is a great team and ronaldos contribution cannot be underrated.....champs of Italy.....won the nation league with portugal, bernardo just fantabulous and the portugal defence was amazing.....15 assists to his name......an outstanding comeback against Atletico......scored against ajax in both legs....what more can anyone expect from him.....and serie A is defensively adverse than laliga in my opinion since the time of the great pirlo,totti and more........ronaldo may not be the favourites to win the balon dor but he conquered 2018---19
Basbcisty
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Cristiano Ronaldo Deserve the award than anyone else,He win UEFA nation cup against the very VVR in Portugal he win the Sarie A with junv and he is the best player in Italy.
Braddy
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Liverpool fans be like :"You don't know waz going on" Eventuary only God can save us
yikaiklstz
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If it's a matter of trophies then I think Naby Keita also deserves it if he wins AFCN,the thing stands still,MESSI AND RONALDO are genius and considering the season Messi is ahead of any individual player contesting for this award. No player takes a trophy home,it's always in the teams cabinet
GrandReaper
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Ballon d’Or has to be the rigged or the system doesn’t work on who wins. since the day Modric got the award instead of Ronaldo, now because a defender which I have to say is great but isn’t as good as the numbers Messi put up that season, and some of you will say,” but Messi didn’t win this or that” what does that have to do with individual performances. If they are looking by individual performances then Messi wins it, if it’s by trophies VVD, wins it. It’s ballon d’Or not Team d’Or. so my pick is Messi and VVD behind. Sorry Liverpool fans a Ronaldo fans. But you can’t deny the fact that Messi had a great season but didn’t win the award he work very hard for
Ranalops
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Is Ballon dor designed for club titles or its based on individual perfomance and achievement.if its based on individual then what archivements do they look at individually?if its individual look at who is.europe top scorer.Europe top assists,club top scorer,club top assists.if its to look at club trophies then Ramos deserved it last season more than Modric.A deffender depends on his strikers bcoz if there not scoring his defence is totally nothing and thats called team work.use your brains n think about this.
DannyE
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Ballon d‘Or is becoming a joke lately. I don’t understand I don’t hate VVD he’s a good defender but come on if he win Ballon d‘Or then this game we all love will be a joke last year was Modric now Ballon d‘Or for unreasonably reasons now VVD is Favourite to win Ballon d‘Or what’s going on with the world? You play 1 good season then you’re favorite to win Ballon d‘Or. Man U sign me up I want to win Ballon d‘Or.
Sohabcklpu
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why not his stats are better than him..if u kw where I'm coming from
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so do u guys want to tell me Van Diyk performed better than Messi or what.. wat a joke..even though I'm a Ronaldo fan Messi deserves the Golden ball more than anyone else..who is VVD