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BarcelonaSooner or later it had to happen. But what no one imagined was that it would be precisely now. Leo Messi, the footballer who has won the Ballon d’Or the most times, has been left out of the nominations to win this award. A fact that had not happened since 2005, when he was a young debutante of only 18 years. In fact, there is no Barça player either, with the exception of Robert Lewandowski, signed this summer from Bayern Munich.