The recognitions for the talent of Louis Diaz. This Friday, France Football magazine announced that the Colombian player is one of the nominees for the Golden Ball of the 2021-2022 season.
Also on the list of nominees are Sadio Mané -ex-partner of Díaz in Liverpool, today in Bayern Munich–, Mohamed Salah and Darwin Nunez, new player of the whole of Anfield.
The Brazilian Vinícius Júnior (Real Madrid), the Pole Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona), the Portuguese Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) and the Englishman Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) are among the 30 nominees for the award that France Football magazine will award next October the 17th.
This is the second batch of 30 shortlisted, released this Friday, and that uses new evaluation criteria, including taking into account the season rather than the calendar year and prioritizing individual results before collective ones.
In the first round, the Belgian Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid), the Portuguese Rafael Leao (Milan), the German Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich), the French Christopher Nkunku (RB Leipzig) and the Egyptian Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) were disclosed. .
The Argentine Leo Messi (PSG) won the last edition of 2021.
