However, Messi didn't garner the popular consensus in 2021 with many believing that the Ballon d'Or instead belonged to Lewandowski, who had been so cruelly denied the 2020 award after France Football decided to cancel the whole thing at relatively short notice due to the "lack of a suffic...
The move to November–December introduced a new, if not disruptive, complexity to the tournament. Falling in the middle of the annualfootball(soccer) season, it put pressure on players, leagues, federations, and broadcasters to balance regular sporting events with the World Cup. A number of pot...