Ballon d’Or organizers have said they are thinking about
awarding Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski the 2020 Ballon d’ Or award
following comments from Paris Saint-Germain’s Lionel Messi.
Messi, who won a seventh Ballon d’Or on Monday night, had
urged France Football to award Lewandowski, who finished runner-up behind the
Argentine this year, an award for last year.
Ballon d’ Or was not handed out
last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lewandowski was favourite to win the 2020 Ballon d’Or,
having helped Bayern Munich win the treble last season and finishing top goal
scorer.
“Robert, you deserve your Ballon d’Or. Last year, everyone
was in agreement to say that you were the big winner of this award,” Messi had
said after receiving his seventh Ballon d’ Or.
However, speaking on the development, France Football
editor-in-chief Pascal Ferré, insisted that Lewandowski is open to the
possibility.
“What Messi said was nice and clever. I think we do not have
to make very quick decisions. We can think about it and at the same time we
should respect the history of the Ballon d’Or, which is based on voting,” Ferré
told Watson via Bulinews.
“We can’t be sure if Lewandowski would have won the Ballon
D’Or last year. We can’t know because there was no vote. But, to be honest,
Lewandowski would have had a great chance of winning last year.”
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