Ballon d’Or
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Arsenal legend, Ian Wright, has tipped midfielder Declan Rice to win the Ballon d’Or this season. Wright believes that if Arsenal win the Premier League and the UEFA Champions League, Rice should win the top individual prize. He stated this while speaking on the Stick to Football podcast ahead of Arsenal’s Premier League tie with…
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Rodri’s Ballon d’Or triumph, sealed by a 41-vote margin, saw him edge out Vinicius Junior at the Theatre du Châtelet in Paris on October 28. This outcome surprised many in the football landscape, given the Brazilian’s pivotal role in Real Madrid’s La Liga and UEFA Champions League successes. Critics argue that Vinicius’ remarkable statistics and…
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Super Eagles of Nigeria forward, Ademola Lookman, has been nominated for the 2024 men’s Ballon d’Or award. In the list announced by France Football Magazine on Wednesday, the 26-year-old Atalanta of Italy player was shortlisted alongside 29 players for the coveted award. He is the only African player in the list. Eight-time winner and current holder…
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A standing ovation for Inter Miami and Argentina forward Lionel Messi. A moment to savour for his wife and their three children. A beaming Messi says: “Above all I have to congratulate everyone who was nominated for this award. I have to share this award with my team-mates and everything we achieved with the national…
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When Victor Osimhen finished eighth in the #BallonDor rankings on Monday night, it marked yet another milestone in Africa’s relatively short involvement with the awards. Eighth may have made him top dog in Nigeria’s Ballon d’Or history, beating Nwankwo Kanu’s 11th place of 1996, but in African terms, others have been better. Since its 1956…
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Lionel Messi joked that PSG fans wouldn’t want him parading his eighth Ballon d’Or at the club after things on the pitch didn’t go as well as hoped. WHAT HAPPENED? Messi admitted after winning his record-extending eighth Ballon d’Or that, although he and his family enjoyed living in the French capital, in the end, his time at Paris…
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Messi wins Ballon d’Or Lionel Messi wins an eighth Ballon d’Or. The pint-sized Argentine magician has done it again. Was it ever in any doubt? Messi extends his record having lifted the World Cup with his trophy. He wasn’t nominated last year for the first time since 2005, but he’s back on top of the world…
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Inter Miami superstar, Lionel Messi has been confirmed as the winner of the 2023 Ballon d’Or award in a list leaked online. Goal reports that Messi finished in first position in the voting ahead of Erling Haaland of Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain’s Kylian Mbappe. Haaland and Mbappe were in second and third positions respectively.…
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Lionel Messi has been informed that he is the winner of the 2023 Ballon d’Or according to family friend Alessandro Dossetti. The 2022 FIFA World Cup winner has been widely tipped to win his eighth Ballon d’Or on October 30. It appears that he may have been told that he has won the award by…
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Nigeria head coach Jose Peseiro believes Victor Osimhen can win the Ballon d’Or in future. Osimhen is among the 30 players nominated for the 2023 men’s Ballon d’Or. While it would be difficult for the 24-year-old to win the prestigious award this year, going by the calibre of the players on the list, Peseiro is…
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Bayern Munich forward, Sadio Mane, has said Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema should win the Ballon d’Or this year. Mane is also in the running for the prize, as he enjoyed an impressive season last term with Liverpool. The Senegalese won two domestic cups with the Reds, while finishing second in the Premier League and receiving…
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Lionel Messi has confessed that he plans to vote for Paris Saint-Germain team-mates Kylian Mbappe and Neymar in the upcoming 2021 Ballon d’Or. Messi is among the favourites to win the prize – which would be his seventh – but faces serious competition from the likes of Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski and Chelsea midfielder Jorginho.…
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Real Madrid have managed to close the season by lifting the LaLiga title, an achievement that would not have been possible without Karim Benzema, who has been the stand-out performer in Zinedine Zidane’s side this season. Along with Sergio Ramos, Benzema has been one of the leaders on the pitch that has helped guide Madrid…
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While fans in Africa reacted with indignation after Sadio Mane finished fourth in the Ballon d’Or voting, another striker who played for Senegal and Liverpool, took a slightly more balanced view. Mane, who won the Champions League, finished behind Argentine winner Lionel Messi of Barcelona, Dutch team-mate Virgil van Dijk and Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo.…
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Cristiano Ronaldo was the most notable absentee at Monday’s Ballon d’Or awards ceremony, where his great rival Lionel Messi scooped his sixth trophy to put him one ahead of the Juventus star. Ronaldo eventually finished third behind Messi and Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk in the 2019 nominations list, but according to his agent Jorge Mendes, there remains…
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Lionel Messi has tipped Cristiano Ronaldo to become the outright Ballon d’Or record holder, after the Barcelona star secured his sixth nomination for the France Football accolade. Lionel Messi scooped a record sixth Ballon d’Or trophy in Paris on Monday night. The Barcelona striker was nominated ahead of Virgil van Dijk in second, with Cristiano Ronaldo coming in third…
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