Dembele is in the limelight as he recently won the Ballon d’Or award for the 2024-25 season.
Messi-Ronaldo rivalry attracted global audiences in their “El-Classico” face-offs, made the Ballon d’Or more interesting.
Figo dismissed Mbappe’s chances of winning the award, highlighting his inability to guide the team to significant trophies as a key reason.
Barcelona winger Raphinha seemed to get inspired from Argentine star footballer Lionel Messi when he presented Lamine Yamal with a special gold plated IPhone.
Tony Kroos commented on a post by Fabrizio Romano which had the top 30 players for 2024 Ballon d’Or.
Both Rodri and Vinicius Jr have shown tremendous performances in the 2023-24 season.
Coming second in the Men’s Ballon d’Or 2024, Vinicius Jr took to social media to share his thoughts after being snubbed from the prestigious award.
Vinicius Jr, his Real Madrid teammates, and manager Carlo Ancelotti will reportedly not going to travel to Paris tonight for Ballon d’Or.
This is for the first time since 2003, that both Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are not among the contenders to win the Ballon d’Or award this year.
In a heartening gesture, the Argentine maestro donated his eighth Ballon d’Or trophy to the Barcelona Museum.
Talking about this year’s Ballon d’Or ceremony, the Men’s and Women’s best players were won by Lionel Messi and Aitana Bonmati.
Benzema leaves Europe with a long-standing legacy as he had 420 goals and 192 assists along with 33 titles in France and Spain.
Messi did not make the cut after scoring 11 goals in 34 matches for PSG last season.
Benzema has had the best season of his 13-year career at Madrid, scoring 44 goals with 15 assists in all competitions.
In another image doing the rounds on Twitter, Tom Holland has been captured hilariously stealing Lionel Messi’s #30 PSG jersey.
The Argentine footballer’s family was the showstopper of the event and their photographs made everyone fall for them over the internet.
Notably, Ferre had stated that Ronaldo had told him how he wants to retire with more Ballon d’Or than Messi.
Either Messi or Ronaldo has collected the award every year from 2008 to 2019 except for 2018 when Croatia midfielder Luka Modric won it.
Let’s take a look at the top 5 players who at least deserved to be named in the Ballon d’Or 30-man shortlist.