The Ballon d'Or has been cancelled so we held our own! Sportsmail's experts cast their votes for the world's best player this year... with Lewandowski, Van Dijk, Messi, Ronaldo and Haaland among the star turns

Daily Mail | July 24, 2020

For the first time since it was launched in 1956, the Ballon d'Or will not be awarded this year.

Its organisers, the magazine France Football, made the announcement this week, saying it was impossible to award the prestigious honour in a season so disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

So we decided to ask our reporters for their top three choices of this year's best performers and used the same scoring system to find a winner.

Messi will hang on to his Ballon d'Or for a little longer after the 2020 award was cancelled

DOMINIC KING

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