Who should win the 2024 Ballon d’Or? Voters have favored European winners We’re left with six UEFA Champions League winners, including one who also won La Liga and EURO in Spanish right back Dani Carvajal. The rest? Fede Valverde, Vinicius Junior, Jude Bellingham, Toni Kroos,...
In 2023, there are significant changes to theBallon d'Orevaluation criteria. Individual performance and the candidate's decisive and impressive character take precedence over the collective aspect and trophies won, as well as the player's class and sense of fair play. This shift could favor ...
Favourites to win the 2020 Ballon d'Or Lionel Messipresented his sixth Ballon d'Or trophy to Barcelona's Camp Nou in his first home game after winning the record-breaking award, and promptly scored a hat-trick in a 5-2 win over Mallorca. Pep Guardiola once said the favourite ...
Robert Lewandowski as the frontrunner in Europe this season, but he unfortunately won't be lifting the prestigious Ballon d'Or trophy this year
The Ballon d’Or represents the peak of individual achievement in football, bestowing upon winners the validation that Planet Earth cannot, at that moment, locate a better player than them. They aren’t doled out for fun. Hence, as we celebrate the first 200 continental fixtures to be ...
shy away from self-congratulatory remarks, but when Lewandowski was asked back in August who should have won the Ballon d'Or had it been awarded, the striker said simply: "Me." Few would argue against him. It would be just reward, too, for an incredibly prolific spell. -- Tom...
Who has won the most Best FIFA Football Awards? The winners year by year FRANCK FIFEAFP Followinga breakaway from prestigious magazine France Football, who oversaw the Ballon d’Or award,FIFAcreated their own individual award and stagedthe first ‘The Best’ ceremony in January 2017in Zurich ...
Bernardo Silva: 'I wouldn't swap team trophies for Ballon d'Or. No chance' At Euro 2020, the Netherlands top scored in the group stage, winning every game before being beaten by the Czech Republic in the round of 16. This is a long-winded way of say...
The pair have monopolized these awards for well over a decade. From 2008-2021, the only other footballer to have won a Ballon d’Or has been Luka Modrić (Croatia) in 2018. This unbelievable stat is testament to both Messi and Ronaldo’s elite mental and physical conditioning, which has...
Indeed, if Mbappe is to win the prestigious title, a move away from PSG might be needed. Only one man has ever won the Ballon d'Or in France- Jean-Pierre Papin of Marseille in 1991. Since then, La Liga and Serie A has dominated the charts, with the odd winner from the Premie...