Spain dominated the recent Ballon d’Or list of nominees with seven footballers hailing from the World Cup winning nation. Germany had five players announced for the high honor as well and Inter Milan dominated the league nominees with the highest of any club team being four players nominated.

England’s Three Lions national team fans can wince at the fact that zero Englishmen were named as considerations for the award that will be presented in Zurich on January 10th and that includes Wayne Rooney who at one time had scored more goals then any other footballer in the world last March. France and Italy also lacked a footballer from being mentioned on the short list as well although both nations did have a league coach honored for their managerial role last season.  Read more... (480 words, 1 image, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)