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Best players to have never won the Ballon d'Or: Thierry Henry Dennis Bergkamp Paolo Maldini Andres Iniesta Neymar Mohamed Salah James Joyce Jorge Luis Borges Vladimir Nabokov Stanley Kubrick Orson Welles

26/10/26, 6:02 pm5 reposts92 likes

Joe

@spuuky.bsky.social

Welles did actually win one

Two Sheds

@tdastephen.bsky.social

Joyce would have been Rodri all over again - a bunch of idiots melting down about "who even likes that?"

Alex Campbell

@acampbellsports.bsky.social

Diego Luna Diego Luna

Kevin A

@kba26.bsky.social

Cavan Sullivan

Charles M. A. Thomsen

@cmalmskou.bsky.social

Hany Mukhtar

Jon Arnold

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Rubén Darío Insúa Rubén Darío

Sam Tighe

@stighefootball.bsky.social

Terrible list! Where’s Lula? Gandhi? and Jesus???

Dan Pritchard

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Doug Ellis!? He invented the overhead kick!

John Muller

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Jesus was always more of a system player, they don't give awards for being part of the best trinity

Mike Goodman

@themlg.bsky.social

And the best trinity couldn’t even crack the women’s list anyway.

John Muller

@johnspacemuller.com

Listen you can't give the Ballon d'Or to Greenland

Kieran Doyle

@kierdoyle.bsky.social

Messi Suarez Neymar, Bale Benzena Cristiano, Father Son Holy Spirit. The goated trios.

Liam Mulvey

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Kubrick losing out to Uwe Boll was particularly galling.

Tyler

@tsloanofficial.bsky.social

That year with Ledley King, Josh King and Stephen King was rigged, I swear

John Muller

@johnspacemuller.com

Ultimately he's just unlucky to have played in the same era as Olga Tokarczuk

s o u n d e r n a v i a

@sndrnvia.bsky.social

Books of Jacob is like getting a 110 pt season imo

John Muller

@johnspacemuller.com

Think they said "evil" but sportswriting was florid back then

LaNorris Sellers’ Heisman Trophy@socratescousin.bsky.social

legend has it that Orson Welles first touch was crazy

croquetinho.bsky.social

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🟡 Parkins 🔵

@parkinsgillespie.bsky.social

Orson Welles 🤝 Ronaldo Nazario Outrageously talented but also outrageously fat