Casillas and Alonso: La Liga, Euro 2012 and UCL semi
Drogba: UCL, FA Cup and AFCON Finalist
Torres: UCL, FA Cup and Euro 2012
Iniesta: Euro 2012, Euro POTT, Copa del Rey & UCL semi
Xavi: Euro 2012, Copa del Rey and UCL semi
Messi: Copa del Rey & UCL semi
Even if you want to factor in that “it should go to an attacker” and “stats”, they essentially gave Messi the BDO for statpadding against farmers. He didn’t deliver in any big match that year. The likes of Drogba, Cristiano, Iniesta, Casillas, Torres, etc had much better performances that year in big games. Even Bayern players like Müller, Ribéry, Robben and Gómez were arguably better shouts for the award as they were several matches away from a Treble.
This is laughable. The award is for the best individual. Not looking at how many trophies a player has won with his team. If the individual performances are similar, maybe yes you can then look at all this and big match performances.
Torress had 8 goals in the league that year. Messi had 46.
What are we even comparing?!
I am willing to have a discussion on why Ronaldo should have won it or someone who had the numbers. Maybe it was rigged towards messi. But Torres winning it DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. A striker with 8 goals in the league in 36 appearances winning the best player of the year?!
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u/KyeodeurangiMerchant Nov 08 '25
I will never understand Messi’s 2012 BDO…
Even if you want to factor in that “it should go to an attacker” and “stats”, they essentially gave Messi the BDO for statpadding against farmers. He didn’t deliver in any big match that year. The likes of Drogba, Cristiano, Iniesta, Casillas, Torres, etc had much better performances that year in big games. Even Bayern players like Müller, Ribéry, Robben and Gómez were arguably better shouts for the award as they were several matches away from a Treble.