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Race Guru 🏇 @GoalAdviser

The voting for the Ballon d'Or trophy: 1. MESSI → 41,33% 🏆 2. Ronaldo → 27,76% 3: Neymar → 7,86% #BallondOr

FIFA Media @fifamedia

FULL VOTING RESULTS: See the breakdown by country for the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year 2015 - #BallondOr

RebeccaWatkinns @RebeccaWatkinns

Voting breakdown = better than the awards themselves

Planet Fútbol @si_soccer

The annual tradition! #Messi, #Cristiano omit each other from their #BallondOr ballots:

The biggest individual prize in world football is decided by a combination of national team captains, national team managers and selected journalists.

As per usual, there were plenty of eyebrows raised from some of the votes that were cast. For example, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo did not vote for each other:  

Barry Lakin @BarryLakin1

How can Messi and Ronaldo not vote for eachother...embarrassing really..😩#norespect

Andy Castell @AJ3

Can't decide if it is to be expected, or a bit embarrassing that Messi and Ronaldo didn't vote for each other?

ARYAN @theunitedmanc

Wayne Rooney votes for Ballon d'Or: 1. Lionel Messi 2. Thomas Müller 3. Cristiano Ronaldo #MUFC

There was also plenty of reaction to England captain Wayne Rooney's votes:

Sean @seanhg72

Rooney voted for mourinho as manager of the year! Hahahahahahaha - Enrique nowhere in his vote

Osman @OsmanZtheGooner

Ronaldo won't be happy knowing Rooney voted Messi & Muller as his top 2 players. Watch United fans blame Rooney for Ronaldo not coming back

Roy Hodgson, who famously selected Javier Mascherano as his Ballon d'Or last year, also garnered attention for his choices:

Matt Holt Tips @MattHoltTips

Roy Hodgson voted for Eden Hazard as the 3rd best player in the world. Please stop this man from managing England. Please. #BallondOr

Jamal @carefreejamal

Hodgson voted hazard 3rd. The man knows his football. Lifetime contract for the boy

Grobbelrevell @markbrucerevell

When are votes cast for the #BallondOr, and what period are they voting on? Searching for some logic behind Hodgson voting for Hazard.

T.Byrne @Tomm_Byrne

Who remembers when Hodgson voted Mascherano as number 1 😭😭this guys meant to win us the Euros

Manchester United @MUFCScoop

Bastian Schweinsteiger votes for Ballon d'Or: 1. Manuel Neuer 2. Thomas Müller 3. Neymar #MUFC

Bastian Schweinsteiger showed a reasonable amount of pro-German bias with his selections:

Tom Hogg @EdinJag

Schweinsteiger adopts the Eurovision voting method in the Ballon d'Or. Looks after his own.

Endocrine: or, the Modern Prometheus. @HulkingLungfish

Basti doesn't vote for Messi or Ronaldo because of his dedication to banter.

Blaugrana #17 @CANGRI17

Schweinsteiger has been smoking on some of the finest herbs...

bet365 @bet365

Ashley Williams #BallondOr votes: 1) Gareth Bale 2) Lionel Messi 3) Robert Lewandowski

Wales' Ashley Williams also showed some preference for a certain countryman:

Ferguson FC @NotAManCantona

Ashley Williams voted for Bale as #1. Must be loads of other examples of these biased votes, too. Really stupid.

_ @CharliePalmer95

Some of the players votes for the ballon d'or are beyond me, Ashley Williams voting bale and lewandowski? Are you even real?

ManCityPhotos @ManCityPhotos

Vincent Kompanys voting in the Ballon d'Or. 1. Hazard. 2. De Bruyne. 3. Messi.

The same kind of bias was evident in Vincent Kompany's choices:

Christopher Davies @Chrisdavies1966

Vincent Kompany’s top 3 players for 2015 – Hazard, De Bruyne, Messi. Proof that playing the game does not make you a good, unbiased judge.

Footy Accumulators @FootyAccums

No bias at all there @VincentKompany..

Agustin 🇺🇾 @a_duarte11

Neymar said Messi and Ronaldo are the best in the world but he didn't vote for Ronaldo.

Even the eminently lovable Neymar came under the cosh for his choices (which were his team-mates Messi, Luis Suarez and Ivan Rakitic):

Clearly, there is a general distrust for the Ballon d'Or voting system:

Leo Sat @ItsMrBlueGuy

Eden Hazard came 6th in the Ballon D'OR voting but not named in TOTY because of the position he played in.

Fatimah! @Barcagurl_

Neymar 7% these people voting have coconuts as Brains.