The question then is, why isn’t Salah ever in the conversation for the Ballon d’Or? Football’s golden ball award has been won by only one African since its inception in 1956. Who else but ...

Just days after finishing as runner-up to Rodri at the 2024 Ballon d’Or event, Vinicius Junior was ... to the top of the market to lift the trophy later this year, just ahead of a gaggle of ...

Instead, he is posting the best numbers of his career to lead the Golden Boot race ... surpassing his previous best Ballon d'Or finish of fifth and lift the trophy next October.

Cristiano Ronaldo was confident of securing a sixth Ballon d'Or in 2018. The Portuguese striker ultimately finished second in one of the more surprising results in recent memory. Prior to the ...

Liverpool's Mohamed Salah is currently one of the frontrunners to win the Ballon d'Or in 2025 but his future still remains a ...

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has said the Premier League club has drawn a line under the Ballon d’Or controversy with Real Madrid. Both teams face each other in the Champions League ...

3) Lamine Yamal (Barcelona) Rodri sees a Ballon d’Or win in the 17-year-old Barcelona star’s future. Seven-f***ing-teen, by the way. The Kopa Trophy winner is already world class. 2 ...

A legend of the game who was robbed of the Ballon d'Or has taken up a completely new ... having won every available trophy during his time at Barcelona. He also won the World Cup and Euros as ...

Anna Csiki has won the first-ever Women’s Hungarian Ballon d’Or. Presented by Hungary's oldest online football website NB1.hu and chosen by a panel of leading editors, the midfielder was named the ...

Former Scotland, Manchester United and Manchester City striker Denis Law – the only Scottish player to have won the Ballon d'Or – has died at the age of 84. Born in Aberdeen, Law, who was ...

Lionel Messi's father Jorge Messi once reponded to backlash over his son winning the Ballon d'Or ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo. The incident occured after La Pulga had clinched the coveted award for ...