22 countries that ranked Messi outside top 5 in 2021 Ballon d'Or

For this or that reason, some journalists preferred not to put Leo Messi into their Ballon d'Or top 5.

Let's see in which countries the Argentine didn't even make the top 5.

Messi out of top 5: Brazil (still mad for that Copa America defeat?), Cameroon, Bhutan, Comoros, Congo, Scotland, Eritrea, Finland, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Moldova, Mozambique, the Netherlands, Portugal (anyone surprised?), Salvador, Slovenia, Switzerland, Togo, Turkey, Ukraine, Yemen.

This, however, didn't prevent Leo from claiming his deserved 7th Ballon d'Or.