Ballon d’or 2022: Why Wasn’t Lionel Messi Nominated in the 30-Man Ballon d’or 2022 List?

The editor-in-chief of the France Football magazine, Pascal Ferre admitted that Lionel Messi’s absence from the list of nominees for the 2022 Ballon d’Or award wasn’t a surprise as “the Argentinean didn’t have a good year”.

Messi who has won the Ballon d’Or award for a record seven times was not included in the 30-man list published by France Football on August 13, 2022.

This will be the first time that Messi was omitted from the list since 2005.

Messi had an underwhelming first season with Paris Saint-Germain, especially in terms of goal-scoring, after making his move from Barcelona.