It is no secret to anyone that Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo were the clear dominators of football for more than a decade, this is confirmed by their ‘The Best’ and Ballon d’Or awards, however for the second consecutive year, the Pole Robert Lewandowski won them the first of these two awards.
And after finding out who the winners were in the different categories of ‘The Best’ Awards, one of the biggest remaining attractions is knowing Who the captains and coaches of the different teams voted for, including Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, captains of Argentina and Portugal, respectively.
As has become customary since both soccer players are leaders of their national teams, neither of them voted for the other, however, it did surprise those who gave their votes a bit, partly because they noticed a certain partiality, mainly on the side of the Argentine who showed his favoritism for his friend and teammate Neymar Jr.
For his part, it was a bit surprising that the Portuguese did not choose who his partner was during a long time at Real Madrid, Karim Benzema, who had a very outstanding year and for whom Leo Messi did vote.
Another of the votes that were known and that perhaps left more than one speechless was that of the Portugal coach, Fernando Santos, who did not take Cristiano Ronaldo into account.
For their part, few voters chose both Messi and CR7, including Guillermo ‘Memo’ Ochoa as captain of Mexico and David Ospina as captain of Colombia.
Some of the votes cast by different protagonists were:
Lionel Messi (Argentina): Neymar, Mbappé and Benzema.
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal): Lewandowski, Kanté and Jorginho.
Sergio Busquets (Spain): Messi, Lewandowski and Haaland.
Luis Enrique Martínez (Spain): Messi, Lewandowski and Jorginho.
Mohamed Salah (Egypt): Jorginho, Messi and Lewandowski.
Luka Modric (Croatia): Benzema, Jorginho and Lewandowski.
David Alaba (Austria): Lewandowski, Benzema and Jorginho.
Eden Hazard (Belgium): Benzema, Kevin De Bruyne and Jorginho.
Gareth Bale (Wales): Lewandowski, Benzema and Salah.
Hugo Lloris (France): Benzema, Mbappé and Kanté.
Harry Kane (England): Lewandowski, Messi and Kant é.
Manuel Neuer (Germany): Lewandowski, Salah and Kanté.
Giorgio Chiellini (Italy) : Jorginho, Lewandowski and Kanté.
Martin Odegaard (Norway): Benzema, Haaland and Messi.
Jan Oblak (Slovenia): Messi, Kanté and Lewandowski.
Diego Godín (Uruguay): Kanté, Jorginho and Messi.
Claudio Bravo (Chile): Messi , Lewandowski and Salah.
David Ospina (Colombia): Messi, Lewandowski and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Guillermo Ochoa (Mexico): Messi, Lewandowski and Cristiano Ronaldo
Didier Deschamps (France): Benzema, Mbappé and Kanté.
Lionel Scaloni (Argentina): Messi , Mbappé and Neymar.
Roberto Mancini (Italy): Jorginho, Lewandowski and Mbappé.
Fernando Santos (Po rtugal): Kanté, Jorginho and Lewandowski.
Joaquín Caparros (Armenia): Lewandowski, Benzema and Haaland.
Roberto Martínez (Belgium): De Bruyne, Jorginho and Lewandowski.
Carlos Queiroz (Egypt): Salah, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lewandowski.