France Football Names 30 Nominees For 2018 Ballon D’Or Award Including Alleged Rapist Cristiano Ronaldo

France Football Magazine, organizers of the annual Ballon D’Or award for the best footballer in the world, have named the final 30 nominees for this year’s award.

The 30 players are up for the Ballon D’Or award, which has once again been decoupled from Fifa’s World Best Player of the Year award.

The award contains many usual suspects including Cristiano Ronaldo, who is nominated despite battling allegations of rape.

Fifa Best Player and world cup finalist Luka Modric made the list, as did Leo Messi and several members of France’s World Cup winning team.

Africa is represented on the list by the Liverpool duo of Mohammed Salah of Egypt and Sadio Mane of Senegal.

Check out the full 30 man list for the award below…

Sergio Aguero (ARG / Manchester City)

Alisson (BRA / Liverpool)

Gareth Bale (WAL / Real Madrid)

Karim Benzema (FRA / Real Madrid)

Edinson Cavani (URU / PSG)

Thibaut Courtois (BEL / Chelsea)

Cristiano Ronaldo (POR / Juventus)

Kevin De Bruyne (BEL / Manchester City)

Roberto Firmino (BRA / Liverpool)

Diego Godin (URU / Atlético Madrid)

Antoine Griezmann (FRA / Atlético Madrid)

Eden Hazard (BEL / Chelsea)

Isco (SPA / Real Madrid)

Harry Kane (ENG / Tottenham)

N’Golo Kanté (FRA / Chelsea)

Hugo Lloris (FRA / Tottenham)

Mario Mandzukic (CRO / Juventus Turin)

Sadio Mané (SEN / Liverpool)

Marcelo (BRA / Real Madrid)

Kylian Mbappé (FRA / PSG)

Lionel Messi (ARG / FC Barcelone)

Luka Modric (CRO / Real Madrid)

Neymar (BRA / PSG)

Jan Oblak (SLO / Atlético Madrid)

Paul Pogba (FRA / Manchester United)

Ivan Rakitic (CRO/ Barcelona)

Sergio Ramos (ESP/ Real Madrid)

Mohammed Salah (EGY/ Liverpool)

Luiz Suarez (URU/ Barcelona)

Raphael Varane (FRA/ Real Madrid)

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