For the first time since its inception in 2011, the UEFA Player of the Year Award podium involves a single League player.
Robert Lewandowski won this year’s award in the 10 most sensible ruled through Bayern Munich, while Kevin De Bruyne of Manchester City and Manuel Neuer of Bayern Munich were among the three most sensible.
Lionel Messi finished fourth, but is the only player in La Liga to be among the ten most sensitive, including five players from Bayern Munich and Kylian Mbappé and Neymar from Paris Saint-Germain, as well as De Bruyne and Cristiano Ronaldo. the only player in La Liga among last year’s ten most sensitive.
The League has historically ruled the award, with the 3 players on the final list coming from the Spanish league more productive 4 times since 2010/11. Until last year, when Virgil Van Dijk won the award, Franck Ribéry was the only player outside the League. to be named UEFA Player of the Year. At least part of the shortlisted players came from La Liga five of the ten years since the awards began, and won not only through Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, but also through Andrés Iniesta and Luka. Modric.
The rest of the shortlists come from groups that have done well in the Champions League, and Spanish groups have not reached the same heights as ever at this festival in the last two seasons.
But it’s not just the UEFA prizes that La Liga players are missing.
The league that stands out for its Galactica has only one player, Antoine Griezmann, lately at the highest ten valuable world highs at the CIES Football Observatory. Only two other La Liga players (Joao Felix and Frenkie de Jong) made the highest sensato twenty.
Apart from last season, La Liga had achieved the UEFA Player of the Year award so badly in 2012/13 when it had only two players in the maximum of ten sensitive. That summer, the two maximum transfers dear (so far) were the signing of Real Madrid, Gareth Bale and Barcelona, the acquisition of Neymar. The following summer, 3 of the 4 major transfers – Luiz Suarez, James Rodriguez and Antoine Griezmann – were made through La Liga clubs. In 2015/16, La Liga returned to the highest sense of the UEFA Player of the Year award, with Ronaldo, Bale, Griezmann, Suarez and Messi at the top of five senses.
Until now, in this window of movement, The clubs of La Liga have kept the strings of the bag tight in a movement market governed through the Premier League. Excluding the Pjanic-Arthur exchange agreement and the signing of Alvaro Morata by Atletico Madrid, which had been agreed last year, none of the 15 most beloved moves of the summer have been made so far through clubs of La Liga , on the contrary, they desperately sought to get rid of some of their now unintentionally sought-after ex-stars, with Gareth Bale on loan at Tottenham Hotspur and James Rodriguez at Everton.
Much of this lack of movement activity is, of course, due to the monetary effect of COVID-19, but the finances of Barcelona and Real Madrid in general do not look wonderful and have to reduce their payroll before they can well rearrange their difficulty of moving unwanted workers such as Bale, Rodríguez and Philippe Coutinho could also have made the two most important Spanish clubs less willing to look for some other superstar high incomes.
With no full stadiums to make money, the appeal of television can be even more vital than ever, and the lack of global superstars can make it more difficult for La Liga to compete with the Premier League for spectators. To tell his lucky stars as Lionel Messi he has to stay at Barcelona for one more season.
There are exciting young players who rise in the ranks of La Liga, refreshing some of the oldest groups in the latter stages of last year’s Champions League, but there are enough young players for La Liga to regain their crown when the league in which all the most productive stars are playing?
Maybe not. Only 3 La Liga players, Ansu Fati, Rodrygo and Vinicius Junior, are in the top 40 on this year’s Golden Boy list, the same number as the Portuguese Primeira League and less than the Dutch Eredivisie.
It’s hard to expect which of those aspiring “Golden Boy” will continue to compete for the Ballon d’Or in five or ten years, however, having so few players, the “next big deal” may not be a smart sign.
Football is a team game, especially when it comes to winning trophies. But with more and more enthusiasts around global support “players” than “clubs,” in terms of spectators, sponsorship contracts and T-shirt sales, football is increasingly adapting to an individual sport La Liga may have lionel Messi, but the Galactic and La Masia generation is old and wants to create new superstars if it wants to be considered the most productive football league in the world.
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