Should Bayern Munich's Franck Ribery Win the 2013 FIFA Ballon D'Or?
the question has diverged from a straight choice between one of two players—Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi?
The school of thought that had Bayern Munich’s emphatic Champions League semifinal win over Barcelona as some sort of European changing of the guard is a flawed one, given Bayern’s habitual presence in the competition’s latter stages in recent years. Yet their collective power last season sometimes overshadowed the brilliance of some of their individual performers, with Franck Ribery perhaps the biggest victim of the trend.