Messi Wins Ballon d’Or Best Player Of The Past Decade

Well that is according to a Poll carried out by Goal.com, here is how they are reporting it; Joachim Low suggested Philipp Lahm deserved a

Ballon d’Or for being the best player of the past decade. We asked Goal readers who they think deserved such an award! Here are the results…

1st) Lionel Messi (Barcelona and Argentina) – 39.7%

2nd) Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United, Real Madrid and Portugal) – 29.4%

3rd) Thierry Henry (Arsenal, Barcelona, New York Red Bulls and France) – 6.4%

4th) Andrea Pirlo (AC Milan, Juventus and Italy) – 3.6%

5th) Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich and Germany) – 3.3%

6th) Paul Scholes (Manchester United) – 2.5%

7th) Steven Gerrard (Liverpool and England) – 2.3%

8th) Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Juventus, Inter, Barcelona, AC Milan, Paris Saint-Germain and Sweden) – 2.1%

9th) Francesco Totti (Roma and Italy) – 2.1%

10th) Frank Lampard (Chelsea, Manchester City and England) – 1.6%

11th) Other (Such as John Terry, Martin Demichelis, Luca Toni, Fabricio Coloccini, Nicklas Bendtner, etc) – 1.5%

12th) Xavi (Barcelona and Spain) – 1.3%

13th) Didier Drogba (Chelsea, Shanghai Shenhua, Galatasaray, Chelsea and Cote d’Ivoire) – 1.3%

14th) Wayne Rooney (Manchester United and England) – 1.1%

15th) Arjen Robben (Chelsea, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Netherlands) – 0.6%

16th) Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munich and Germany) – 0.5%

17th) Andres Iniesta (Barcelona and Spain) – 0.5%

18th) Manuel Neuer (Schalke, Bayern Munich and Germany) – 0.3%