Iker Casillas rates Ramos ahead of CR7 for Ballon d'Or

In his picks for the Ballon d'Or he gave Sergio Ramos 5 points, Cristiano Ronaldo 3 and Xavi 1. I am trying to understand Iker:)

why would he choose ramos, knowing that he has no chance at winning it.

is it that he doesnt like or rate ronaldo? come one

i dont knw what is going on. i would love to be in a real madrid training session to know exactly what i going on

i hear that ramos is the real captain of real madrid now. casillas' leadership is faltering.

@Cyborg wrote:why would he choose ramos, knowing that he has no chance at winning it.

is it that he doesnt like or rate ronaldo? come one

i dont knw what is going on. i would love to be in a real madrid training session to know exactly what i going on

i hear that ramos is the real captain of real madrid now. casillas' leadership is faltering.

Because football ain't about individual awards and he felt like paying respect to his club and national team teammate who had a great season. Ramos has always been a leader , just his nature . He's vocal with his opinions and he pushes for things to happen.

Casillas can't do much if the coach is literally trying to personally battle him. He can either get rid of the coach (which he can) or he can sit back and let it play out in the hopes the team can still salvage the season.

If Iker thinks Ramos deserves to be voted ahead of Ronaldo, with Messi & Iniesta not even in his list, then only reason to think so is not football, but something else. For a club captain to do this is cheap.

No wonder CR7 is not happy at RM. I won't be surprised if he leaves next season to Man U.

@Le Samourai wrote:

@Cyborg wrote:why would he choose ramos, knowing that he has no chance at winning it.

is it that he doesnt like or rate ronaldo? come one

i dont knw what is going on. i would love to be in a real madrid training session to know exactly what i going on

i hear that ramos is the real captain of real madrid now. casillas' leadership is faltering.

Because football ain't about individual awards and he felt like paying respect to his club and national team teammate who had a great season. Ramos has always been a leader , just his nature . He's vocal with his opinions and he pushes for things to happen.

Casillas can't do much if the coach is literally trying to personally battle him. He can either get rid of the coach (which he can) or he can sit back and let it play out in the hopes the team can still salvage the season.

With voting like this it's hard to give any credibility to the awards, Messi may be the better player but Ronaldo had a better year and deserved to win. There's nothing classy about what Casillas did, he could have shown his love or whatever for Ramos by voting him as third choice behind Ronaldo and Xavi but chose to do otherwise. I don't really want to read too much into it

@buddytaller wrote:With voting like this it's hard to give any credibility to the awards, Messi may be the better player but Ronaldo had a better year and deserved to win. There's nothing classy about what Casillas did, he could have shown his love or whatever for Ramos by voting him as third choice behind Ronaldo and Xavi but chose to do otherwise. I don't really want to read too much into it

I fully agree . This '' i vote for my friend or my team mate '' is ridiculous. Vuvinic's ( Montenegro's cap ) top 3 are only juventus players. How sad

Bénin wrote:

@buddytaller wrote:With voting like this it's hard to give any credibility to the awards, Messi may be the better player but Ronaldo had a better year and deserved to win. There's nothing classy about what Casillas did, he could have shown his love or whatever for Ramos by voting him as third choice behind Ronaldo and Xavi but chose to do otherwise. I don't really want to read too much into it

I fully agree . This '' i vote for my friend or my team mate '' is ridiculous. Vuvinic's ( Montenegro's cap ) top 3 are only juventus players. How sad

yea. its the best player in the world not your best friend.

but there is no way to stop this, players will always vote for people they know.

i remember when it was understood that a player had to win a trophy to be considered best player. the last few have been so ridiculous.

i may be bias but the 2010 balon dor should have been sniejder's. world cup finalist and top scorer, champions league winner, seria a league and cup winner.

this year, 2012 you can argue that ronaldo had a greater impact in football games. la liga winner, champion league semi finalist and euro semi finalist. the best player had to help his team to win something.

fifa is so annoying, balon dor should have never merged with fifa.

I agree, why vote for a player that has no chance of winning when you can give the 5 points to Cristiano who is the only player who had a chance to beat Messi (even if it was slim??

Every point counts.. Casillas should of just 'taken one for the team'