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Juventus striker Cristiano Ronaldo will not attend the award ceremony «Golden ball» in Paris, reports Sport Mediaset. According to the newspaper, the footballer for the second year in a row decided to give up, after learning that the top prize is likely to get forward of «Barcelona» Lionel Messi.
It is noted that instead of the ceremony of «Golden ball» Ronaldo will attend the event in Milan, where will be presented the awards to the best players of the championship of Italy at the end of last season. Portuguese is the main contender for the award for best player of the previous draw of the Serie A.
The ceremony of awarding the «Golden ball» magazine France Football annually awards the best player in the world, will be held in Paris on 2 December. In the event that the award will go to Messi, he will win it for the sixth time and will overtake on this indicator of Ronaldo, who received this award five times.
The list of nominees for the award «Golden ball» was announced by the editors of France Football in October. Apart from Messi and Ronaldo in the list of candidates includes 28 players. Midfielder of real Madrid and Croatia’s Luka Modric, who is the current holder of the awards, this year was not included among the nominees.