deserved the ballon d'or a few times, corruptness ofc.

The irish disagree ^^

Fuck the Irish

As much as I love Henry, there was no single year where he was the best player in the world IMO.

His prime was 2002-06 but there were better players than him in all of those years:




2006: 1. Zidane 2. Cannavaro 3. Ronaldinho (Henry 4th imo)
2005: Clearly Ronaldinho
2004: deserved Ronaldinho
2003: obviously Zidane
2002: ok a little biased I think Zidane deserved it here too but I don't find it unjust that it went to Ronaldo this year.


Like Zlatan, absolutely world class and "deserves" a ballon d'or, but sadly no single year was he actually the best.

This post was edited by MGS4BestGameEverMade on Dec 16 2014 01:07pm

nedved and shevenko won it over henry. henry was better then them both, and in that 4years best striker on the planet.

lol'd.


He did win two O'onze D'or awards (similar to the ballon d'or) and runner up after Ronaldinho in '04 and Zidane in '03 in the FIFA World Player of the Year award (the ballon d'or as we know it today)

That was the old ballon d'or = / = ballon d'ors of today. the ballon d'ors of today was the FIFA World player of the year award (1993-2006 iirc)

old ballon d'ors were fucked up, I mean Michael Owen 2001, seriously?


And there were several other players better than Nedved/Shev during the years they won it. Zidane, Ronaldinho (and Henry)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Player_of_the_Year


Henry was great, but not better than Zizou 2003 or Dinho 2004 IMO.

This post was edited by MGS4BestGameEverMade on Dec 16 2014 01:12pm

Au revoir Roi Henry

old ballon d'or? ye since 2009. in henrys prime 2000-2006, dont understand what you mean.

This post was edited by lepInTheHood on Dec 16 2014 01:14pm

You misunderstand.

in 2014, the "de facto" standard for the world's best player is the man currently holding the FIFA Ballon d'or, the same applied in 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 etc.. (though they can be argued, the general consensus of best player is the ballon d'or holder) right?


Moving back in time, using ballon d'ors as a de facto for best player is wrong as it was not the FIFA ballon d'or back in the day, but rather just a ballon d'or. This award wasn't given to the best player in the world, but the best player in Europe (usually the same thing though)

Back in the day (Henry's prime as well 2002-2006 or so) from 1991 to 2009 the de facto standard for best player in the world was the FIFA World Player of the Year. as I linked earlier in this thread.

So yes the ballon d'ors have been around since the 50s or something, but the FIFA Ballon D'or as we know it today has only been around after the FIFA World Player of the Year award and Ballon d'or merged in 2009

This post was edited by MGS4BestGameEverMade on Dec 16 2014 01:24pm