In the 2010s, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi dominated football so much that they won the Ballon d'Or 13 times between them. In our series, we play with the idea of what would happen if a player could only win the most prestigious individual award once. The rule is simple: we do not change the voting results afterwards, but each year the Ballon d'Or goes to the player who finished first in the rankings behind Ronaldo or Messi and has not yet…
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In the 2010s, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi dominated football so much that they won the Ballon d'Or 13 times between them. In our series, we play with the idea of what would happen if a player could only win the most prestigious individual award once. The rule is simple: we do not change the voting results afterwards, but each year the Ballon d'Or goes to the player who finished first in the rankings behind Ronaldo or Messi and has not yet…