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If somebody can score 73 goals in one campaign, they win the Ballon d'Or. Even in that suit. Case closed. For more from Tom Gott, follow him on Twitter! Ranking the last 25 winners of the Ballon d

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The Balon D'or is an award given to the best football player in the world that year. It's the greatest individual award in football and only a few players ev

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The Ballon d'Or award is an annual football award for the best player over the previous year. It was first awarded in 1956. The most recent winner was Argentinan Lionel Messi in 2023. Messi has won the men's Ballon d'Or award a record eight times, Cristiano Ronaldo has won the award five times. Many visitors to this page are looking for the results of the FIFA player of the year, which was

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The full list of Ballon d'Or winners from 1956 to the present day: 1956: Stanley Matthews (Blackpool) 1957: Alfredo Di Stefano (Real Madrid) 1958: Raymond Kopa (Real Madrid) 1959: Alfredo Di

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The Ballon d'Or (French pronunciation: [balɔ̃ dɔʁ] ⓘ; lit. ' Golden Ball ') is an annual football award presented by French magazine France Football since 1956 to honour the player deemed to have performed the best over the previous season. Conceived by sports writers Gabriel Hanot and Jacques Ferran, the Ballon d'Or was based exclusively on voting by football journalists up until 2006.

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The last player to win the Ballon d'Or before Messi and Ronaldo's long duopoly over the award began, Kaka was excellent for AC Milan in 2006-07, particularly in the Champions League where the Brazilian's surging dribbles and creative attacking play were a prime feature of the Rossoneri's run to continental glory.

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/ballon-dor-complete-list-of-winners
A shock winner in 2001, 21-year-old Michael Owen won the Ballon d'Or to become England's third recipient and, incredibly, Liverpool's first. Owen was integral to a treble of FA Cup, League Cup and

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Players who have won the award: Raymond Kopa, Michel Platini, Jean-Pierre Papin, Zinedine Zidane, Karim Benzema. Years won: 1958, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1991, 1998, 2022. A rich history with the award

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In June, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of FourFourTwo,we named Lionel Messi as the best player of the magazine's lifetime. As he lifts his record sixth Ballon d'Or, we look back on how we&

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The 2022 Ballon d'Or was the first one in which voters were asked to look at a player's European club season (2021/22) and not the 2022 calendar year. ... Messi's first Ballon d'Or win came just

https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2023/oct/30/ballon-dor-2023-awards-ceremony-live-updates?page=with:block-654008898f0837aa4c22e0c9
Bonmati becomes the first player to win the World Cup Golden Ball, the Uefa Women's Player of the Year, and the Women's Ballon d'Or. A third straight trophy for Spain's women, after Alexia

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French striker Karim Benzema won the 2022 Ballon d'Or, world soccer's top individual award, in Paris Monday evening. The Real Madrid star was the favorite to win this year's trophy, with

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The 2023 Ballon d'Or was the 67th annual ceremony of the Ballon d'Or, presented by France Football magazine, recognising the best footballers in the world in the 2022-23 season. For the second time in the history of the award, it was given based on the results of the season instead of the calendar year, with the season starting on 1 August 2022 and ending 31 July 2023.

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Alexia Putellas was crowned the 2022 Women's Ballon d'Or winner, winning the award for the second straight season. The Barcelona and Spain star finished as Europe's highest scoring midfielder last

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/sports/soccer/karim-benzema-real-madrid-ballon-dor.html
Benzema Wins Ballon d'Or After Years of Waiting His Turn. The Real Madrid forward won the voting after a season when Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo were nowhere in sight. Barcelona's

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Ballon d'Or: Karim Benzema wins the Ballon d'Or! 21:04, Jamie Braidwood. The top four of the rankings as confirmed, with Sadio Mane in second place, Kevin De Bruyne third and Robert

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Lionel Messi was crowned Ballon d'Or winner for a record eighth time after leading Argentina to World Cup glory. The 36-year-old scored twice in the final as Argentina saw off France to win the

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Josef Masopust (February 9, 1931 - present) Age won: 31 years and 10 months old. Year won: 1962. Nationality: Czech. Team: Dukla Prague. photo source: Wikipedia. Josef Masopust, born on February 9, 1931, is a Czech footballer who made a name for himself in the world of football by winning the Ballon d'Or in 1962.

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Lionel Messi wins Ballon d’Or for record eighth time Aitana Bonmati wins Ballon d'Or Feminin Jude Bellingham wins Kopa trophy for best young player Vinicius Jr wins Socrates award; Emiliano

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Lionel Messi has been crowned Ballon d'Or winner for a record eighth time after leading Argentina to World Cup glory. The 36-year-old scored twice in the final as Argentina saw off France to win

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2014 Winner: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 2013-14 was Messi's worst season since 2008-09, as the Argentine finished with just 28 goals and 10 assists in LaLiga, and Barcelona's only trophy was

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Kevin Keegan (England): 1978. Kevin Keegan will be remembered as one of the all-time greats of English football, winning the Ballon d'Or in 1978 and 1979. However, the first of those two prizes was completely undeserved. Keegan scored just six Bundesliga goals for Hamburg in 1977-78 as his team finished in tenth place.

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Four of the last five Ballon d'Or winners not named Messi have been Madrid players. That's surely set to continue in 2024. Incredibly, no player born after 1990 has ever won the Ballon d'Or.

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The Balon D'or is an award given to the best football player in the world that year. It's the greatest individual award in football and only a few players ever manage to get their hands on it... But how good were the winners actually? Did they really deserve to win it or did they rob it from someone else? So we're going to look at the last 25 winners and find out exactly how good these

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Moore was second in the Ballon d'Or race in 1970 to Gerd Muller, but perhaps his best shout was in 1966 when Eusebio was a deserved winner. Gianluigi Buffon (Italy) Set to turn 44 and still playing, Gianluigi Buffon is arguably the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the game after playing at the highest level for 25 years.

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The prelude to Messi's eighth Ballon d'Or came in the form of a victory on the international stage. La Pulga's performance at the 2022 FIFA World Cup helped his team clinch the coveted trophy.

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She's a female governor who hails from a crucial state (Democrats need to hold Midwestern swing states, given their problems in other swing states).She has won both of her races there by around

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Winner: Bronny James. When you get drafted into the NBA as a 6-foot-1 guard who averaged 4.8 points over 25 college games after surviving sudden cardiac arrest, you've won.

https://www.sportbible.com/football/football-news/ballon-dor-jude-bellingham-vinicius-junior-kylian-mbappe-867938-20240629
This year's Ballon d'Or award is due to be keenly contested with several players vying for the 2024 title - and Neymar has named the quartet he feels will be in contention. Lionel Messi won the

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/us/politics/trump-debate-performance-falsehoods.html
Mr. Biden got in a few licks, including some of the debate's more memorable moments. He said Mr. Trump had the "morals of an alley cat" and accused him of having sex with a porn star while