World football governing body FIFA and French publication magazine France Football has parted ways so the FIFA Ballon d'Or trophy will end. Both parties will award their own trophies for best player in the world. So now we will have two awards for best player, namely FIFA World Best Player and Ballon d'Or.
So the Ballon d'Or will be back to its core rules before they merged the award with FIFA world best player.
Ballon d'Or will be awarded by France Football by the end of the calendar year in December.
There will be 30 candidate shortlist instead of 23.
Only Journalists from all over the world will vote for a winner from the shortlist.
National team captains and coaches wouldn't vote.
Implications:
Journalists wouldn't have to consider the feeling of players and team mates.
As we all know, national team coaches and captains usually vote not for the best players in their opinions but for the players from their own team or country if they are in the shortlist.
So Ballon d'Or will now seem more fair.
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