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#1 Andrés Iniesta - 2010
Andrés Iniesta started his career with Barcelona where he made 442 appearances for them between 2002 and 2018. This year, he signed with the Japanese Club Vissel Kobe.
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He came close to winning the Ballon d’Or award in 2010 when he got 17.36% of the votes in the Ballon d’Or voting results. 2010 was the first year in which FIFA and France Football had collaborated to award a joint FIFA Ballon d'Or award and it was another Barcelona star in Lionel Messi who won the award with 22.65 % of the votes.
Andres Iniesta was the prominent figure of the 2010 FIFA World Cup-winning squad of Spain. He had also scored the winning goal for Spain in the World Cup final, that made him a worthwhile candidate to win the Ballon d’Or award in 2010. But it was the charisma of Lionel Messi that won the hearts ahead of Iniesta.
