Ballon d'Or was rocked by scandal after 'fake journalist who doesn't exist' allowed to vote for award

There was a major scandal following the Ballon d'Or ceremony after it was revealed a 'fake journalist' cast his vote for Kylian Mbappe to win

The Ballon d’Or ceremony crowns the ‘best player’ in world football but the award hasn’t been given out without controversy.

Days after the 2018 ceremony where Real Madrid talisman Luka Modric won, the award was rocked by a huge scandal. Toimimou Abdo, who worked as a photographer for the newspaper when it still existed, told alwatan.net: “I'm surprised to see that the Albakad Comores exists. As far as is white, the newspaper has been closed for six years.”The fake journalist voted for then Paris Saint-Germain superstar Kylian Mbappe as his no.1 pick, with Modric in second, Cristiano Ronaldo in third, Eden Hazard in fourth and finally Liverpool star Mohamed Salah in fifth.

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