No, the UEFA award results are completely deceiving, as I've explained before. You had TWO rounds of voting, the players with the best voting results were then shortlisted. After that ANOTHER round of voting occured, namely the live voting, where the previous results were left out of consideration. That means that the "huge" advantage Ribery had to the other two candidates came from votes that were previously not his: All the votes that Schweini, Lahm, Müller etc got didn't count and went to Ribery in the final, decisive round. You see? That is not the case in the Ballon Dor, where there is only ONE round and the voters do not have the chance to pick one out of the final three. Whoever gets the most points from a 23 man shortlist wins. This means that Ribery will get much less votes from the journalists than before, because the votes for Schweinsteiger and the other Bayern players won't go to him...
So the Bayern hype will in the end get him and not be to his advantage. The UEFA award was like this: "Well I want a Bayern player to get it, so I pick Schweinsteiger, Lahm and Messi because he's Messi. Oh, Schweinsteiger and Lahm are no longer votable in the second round? Might as well take Ribery then." And if the previous years are anything to go by, Messi will be included in EVERYONE's votes except for maybe Löw's, Casillas' and the French voters, meaning that Messi will get a huge amount of points from 2nd and 3rd place votes, whereas Ribery will not necessarily be included everywhere, because some people rate Lahm, Müller etc better than him and some don't give a damn about trophies.
This is why the UEFA award doesn't say anything.
Edit: It also might be interesting to know that in the first round of voting for the UEFA award, Messi had the most votes (relatively speaking). Had it not been for the live voting, he'd have won.
