The last three candidates of Ballon d’Or seems to be out, Modric, Mbappe and Varane? No Ronaldo?!

On December 3 local time, France Football will announce the winner of the 2018 Ballon d’Or. Now one of the most authoritative French media L’Equipe has released a warm-up video of the 2018 Ballon d’Or. According to this video,  Spanish media has predicted that Mbappe, Varane and Modric will probably be the last three candidates, which means Cristiano Ronaldo will not win the Ballon d’Or this year.

The very beginning of the video was the scence that C. Ronaldo won the Ballon d’Or last year. Then it shows three slow-motion close-ups Mbappe, Varane and Modric. Mbappe and Varane’s close-ups are about winning World Cup champions, and Modric’s is the scence that he holding the Champions League trophy.

After these three close-ups ends, the images of several other players, including Salah, Griezmann, Messi, Bogba and Ronaldo show up. The images of Mbappe, Varane and Modric also show up and it is the second time they appear in this 30 second long video.

Only Mbappe, Varane and Modric have slow motion close-up in this video. In addition, only the images of them appeared twice. So the Spanish media thought these are indications that shows the last three candidats will be Mbaappe, Varane and  Modric.

 

Not long ago, the French media broke the news that after more than half of the Ballon d’Or votes have been counted, Modric, Mbape and Varane are in the top three, while Ronaldo is not in the top three. In the World Cup year, the Ballon d’Or award often value the players’ performance in the World Cup a lot. Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi failed to lead the team advance to the quarterfinals, which directly affected the votes they would recieve.

 

 

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