Football fans across
the globe have been left wondering if FIFA accidentally leaked the winners of
the Ballon d’Or on their website on Wednesday.
Football’s world governing
body momentarily placed Lionel Messi and Celia Sasic at the summit of their
list of winners on their website, alongside the year 2015. Their names were
swiftly removed.
The ceremony is
scheduled to take place on January 11 but Messi and Sasic would not be
surprising winners.
Messi spearheaded
Barcelona to the treble last season, scoring 48 goals in 53 games for his team.
He is competing
against Neymar, his Barcelona team-mate, and Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo
for the gong and if Messi is the winner, it will be the fifth time he has held
the Ballon d’Or.
Sasic, meanwhile, won
the women’s World Cup with Germany in 2015 and was also top scorer for
Frankfurt as they won the Champions League.
But she retired from
the game in July at the age of 27, saying she wanted to pursue new challenges.
“I am looking forward
to many new things in my life: my university studies, a new orientation
job-wise and starting a family among many other things,” Sasic said.
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