Sneider in 2010: Voted best player of Serie A Won Serie A Won Copa Italia Won Super Copa Won Champions League Runner up world cup/ top scorer at world cup / voted second best player at world cup En route to that Champions League victory, Sneijder's Inter actually knocked out Barcelona, with Sneijder himself grabbing a goal and an assist in the 3-1 win at San Siro which ultimately decided the winner of the semi-final. Voted as second best player at the world cup, just behind Forlan. And top scorer at the world cup together with muller, forlan and Villa. He also played the finals in 2010 world cup. Argentina and Messi lost to Germany 4 - 0 in the quarter finals... Sneijder won literally every price he could win that year, being the best and most instrumental player of the best and most successful team of that year.. If you are voted to be the best player of the team that won every price domestic and European + you outperform at the world cup. No thought in my mind he should've won! He had 5 pieces of silver and Messi had 2 that year. Enough said and in the head to head duels Messi lost and in every other competition Inter and Sneijder performed better than Barcelona and Messi... Messi didn't even score one goal at the world cup in 2010. He even has a negative record... Lionel Messi recorded 29 shots at the 2010 World Cup but did not score a goal, the most of any player at a single World Cup without scoring since this data is available (1966) You can love Messi as much as you want, so do I. But he has won 2-3 ballon d'ors purely because he's Messi. This year exactly the same. Nobody gives a shit about Inter Miami and his time at PSG was mediocre at best. If not Sneijder in 2010, it should've been Iniesta then... Actually if they would've voted with the old system, Sneijder would've won by a landslide... Sneijder's success was appreciated by the journalists who were invited to vote for the 2010 Ballon d'Or. He earned 293 points from that section of the votes, enough to put him top of the pile ahead of Iniesta (226), Xavi (229) and Messi (175). Sneijder would have won under previous rules In any year before 2010, that would have meant Sneijder won the award, but this was a special occasion as it was the first year in which the Ballon d'Or was taken over by FIFA, who invited players and managers to chip in as well. What started off as a recognition of accomplishment quickly turned into a glorified popularity contest, with most of the new voters deciding that Messi, who admittedly was probably the best player on the planet at the time, deserved the award ahead of Sneijder. Sure, Sneijder didn't have the kind of otherworldly class that Messi possessed at the time, but that's not the point. The award was supposed to honour the man that had the best year. And that didn't happen.
