Barcelona’s Lionel Messi is the current favorite with the bookmakers to win the coveted prize, followed by Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk and then Juventus superstar Cristiano Ronaldo.
The Argentine has already won five ballon d’or on the same level of his colleague Ronaldo
The winner of the 2019 Ballon d’Or award will be announced in Paris on Monday.
The odds of Messi winning the Ballon d’Or for a record-breaking sixth time plummeted earlier this week after the Spanish media reported that the Argentine legend has won
f true, it will be a richly-deserved award for the player regarded by many as the greatest footballer ever.
This would be the 32-year-old’s first Ballon d’Or win since 2015 and would add further weight to the argument that he’s the best player of all time.
As the clock ticks down to Monday’s ceremony, a ‘leaked’ screenshot has emerged on social media which appears to show the top 10 players for this year’s Ballon d’Or – and the number of points they’ve accumulated from the votes.