France Football today released the first ten names of its 30man nominees for the 2016 Ballon D'or award. The duo of Real Madrid/Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo and Wales/Real Madrid winger Gareth Bale were among the ten nominees first released.
France Football magazine, who presided over the award from 1956 to 2009 is releasing the list of nominees in bunches of fives. The other eight names in the list includes;
Ronaldo is however the overwhelming favorite to win this year's award after winning the 2016 champions league and Euro 2016 with Real Madrid and Portugal respectively.
Jamie Vardy is the only Englishman on 30-man Ballon d'Or shortlist as heis joined by Leicester team-mate Riyad Mahrez in battle for the prestigious award
Here is the full list of all the nominees:
- Sergio Aguero (Manchester City and Argentina)
- Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund and Gabon)
- Gareth Bale (Real Madrid and Wales)
- Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus and Italy)
- Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid and Portugal)
- Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City and Belgium)
- Paulo Dybala (Juventus and Argentina)
- Diego Godin (Atletico Madrid and Uruguay)
- Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid and France)
- Gonzalo Higuain (Juventus and Argentina)
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United and Sweden)
- Andres Iniesta (Barcelona and Spain)
- Koke (Atletico Madrid and Spain)
- Toni Kroos (Real Madrid and Germany)
- Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich and Poland)
- Hugo Lloris (Tottenham and France)
- Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City and Algeria)
- Luka Modric (Real Madrid and Croatia)
- Lionel Messi (Barcelona and Argentina)
- Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich and Germany)
- Neymar (Barcelona and Brazil)
- Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich and Germany)
- Dimitri Payet (West Ham and France)
- Pepe (Real Madrid and Portugal)
- Paul Pogba (Manchester United and France)
- Rui Patricio (Sporting CP and Portugal)
- Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid and Spain)
- Luis Suarez (Barcelona and Uruguay)
- Jamie Vardy (Leicester City and England)
- Arturo Vidal (Bayern Munich and Chile)
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