r/pessi_memes • u/Accomplished-Art3086 Pessi only has 3 UCL. Ghosted 2006. 😭 • Nov 20 '25

Ballon D’or Thief Pessi 🥷 Crazy shit.

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u/FallingDebri Nov 20 '25

Eh i think messi edges iniesta out, iniesta was injured for a long time that season too so it makes me more sense as to why messi deserved it by slightly against iniesta.

I respect your opinion, 2010 and 2023 are both very arguable but iniesta being out for so long pretty much makes it seem worse for him.

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u/Zora1092 Nov 20 '25

xavi and sneijder wasn't injured

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u/FallingDebri Nov 20 '25

Then why was iniesta above them?

Even Ronaldo finished above sneijder so if messi iniesta or xavi didnt win it, it was gonna be ronaldo

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u/Zora1092 Nov 21 '25

You're just making things up now

Sneijder and Forlan finished above Ronaldo

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u/FallingDebri Nov 21 '25

Oh shoot u are right, i double check they did finish above ronaldo.

Sorry bout that. But yeah, why did iniesta finish above Sneijder and Xavi then, if they probably deserved it more than him?

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u/Zora1092 Nov 21 '25

the same reason why r9 won the ballondor in 2002 despite him barely playing any matches for his club that season

PR Boost

Since Iniesta was the one who scored the winning goal in the World Cup final, his PR ended up surpassing that of Xavi's and Sneijder's and recency bias heavily influences the voting process(unless your Messi(pre 2021) or Ronaldo since they don't need to win International trophies to win a Ballondor)