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When is the Ballon d'Or? Who will win the Ballon d'Or 2025? Here's the current list of contenders, top 20 rankings list, and what dates to know.
The Ballon d'Or is the most important individual award in football. This video looks back at the winners of the Ballon d'Or ...
Despite his five Ballon d'Or ... The Best and the Ballon d'Or were "losing credibility". Danish football journalist Troels Bager Thogersen joined the fray, suggesting Ronaldo might be onto ...
"If Messi wins the Ballon d'Or this year, I'm leaving football,” Ronaldo added. Messi might actually have a decision to make regarding his future and his pursuit of more Ballon d’Ors in the ...
in addition to a second Ballon d’Or and a third FIFA World Player of the Year accolade. Ronaldo remained a great player and a world-class goalscorer, but the explosiveness that left football ...
From 2008 to 2021, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo dominated the top echelon of world football, winning every single Ballon d'Or award in that span except for one, when Luka Modric won in 2018.
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo ... Football collaborated on the award from 2010 to 2015, but FIFA created its own trophy eight years ago, The Best. Messi leads the way with eight Ballon d’Or ...
Interestingly, it signals the end of an era dominated by Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo ... him firmly in the race for the Ballon d’Or. Vinicius Junior faces stiff competition for the Ballon d’Or ...
For the first time since 2003, there will be a Ballon d’Or presented with neither Lionel Messi nor Cristiano Ronaldo among the shortlisted nominees. A maiden winner of football’s most coveted ...
Despite the emergence of other similar awards that acknowledge elite performance in football, the Ballon d'Or has remained as the pinnacle, as the Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo hegemony of the ...