I don't care who wins the Ballon D'or - Wenger

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is against the FIFA Ballon d'Or award and the selfishness that individual accolades encourage.

Wenger's thoughts come just days after Cristiano Ronaldo insisted that he was better than Lionel Messi as he hopes for a third successive Ballon d'Or in January.

Ronaldo even admitted he questioned why he should bother attending the ceremony when he watched his Barcelona rival pick up the award from 2010 to 2012.

Ronaldo will once again go up against his great rival Messi for the top individual prize in football

FIFA BALLON D'OR WINNERS

2010 - Lionel Messi

2011 - Lionel Messi

2012 - Lionel Messi

2013 - Cristiano Ronaldo

2014 - Cristiano Ronaldo

But Wenger has urged players to not focus too much on individual awards as he steered clear of revealing who he thought was better, Ronaldo or Messi.

Wenger said: 'I would go for nobody because it’s not my problem at the moment. I have a much bigger problem - to prepare my team for Sunday. It’s a debate that is always very difficult.

'First of all, I’m against that debate because I think we are first a team sport. As a manager I always feel responsible to encourage the collective effort rather than singling people out

'I think the modern world is too much about individuals and we as managers are more worried about the collective.

'I'm not too much of a fan. I'm against the Ballon d'Or. I'm against all these things. I've seen careers destroyed because the players are too much obsessed to get individual rewards.

'I feel sometimes it encourages selfishness and people inside the game to go too much for their own sake when some partners are in a better position.