Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldonominated for Ballon d’Or as first fivenames of 30-man shortlist is released

France Football today released the first ten
names of its 30man nominees for the 2016
Ballon D'or award. Real Madrid/Portugal
forward Cristiano Ronaldo and Wales/Real
Madrid winger Gareth Bale are among the
ten nominees first released.
France Football magazine, who presided over
the award from 1956 to 2009 is releasing the
list of nominees in bunches of fives. The
other eight names in the list includes;

Gianluigi Buffon(Juventus/Italy),
Sergio Aguero (Manchester City and
Argentina) ,Pierre-Emerick
Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund and
Gabon), Gonzalo Higuain (Argentina/
Juventus), Paulo Dybala (Juventus/
Argentina), Kevin De Bruyne (Man
city/ Belgium), Antoinne Griezmann
(Atletico Madrid/ France) and Diego
Godin (Atletico Madrid/ Uruguay)

Ronaldo is the overwhelming favorite to win
this year's award after winning the 2016
champions league and Euro 2016 with Real
Madrid and Portugal respectively.

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