While he holds Barcelona's Ballon d'Or winner Messi in very high regard, he would have preferred another player to scoop the award.

尽管他对巴塞罗那的金球奖得主梅西非常尊重，他更希望另一个运动员赢得这个奖项。

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Give me a balloon, a balloon, a ballon.

给我一个气球、一个气球、一个气球。

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Highest is the dramatic, wind-buffeted summit of the 1, 424-metre Grand Ballon, reached by a short trail from the D431 road.

最高点是1424米高“大气球”的引人注目的被风吹动的峰顶，可以通过一条连接到D431公路的短径到达。

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South Korea's defense ministry tells VOA News that plans to send tens of thousands of leaflets northward by ballon have been delayed because of wind conditions, but they could go aloft as early as Thursday.

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And it is here, with Alex Ferguson, that I started to believe I could win the Ballon d'Or.

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However, United gazumped the deal by entering negotiations and bidding three times what Arsenal offered for the recently-crowned 2008 Ballon d'Or winner.

CNN: Ronaldo admits he nearly joined Arsenal

Only once has one of Ferguson's men won the Ballon d'Or, awarded annually to the best player in Europe (it went to Cristiano Ronaldo in 2008).

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