“I got the biggest prize in June,” Messi said in reference to Argentina's own Maracanazo against Brazil in Rio de Janeiro Argentine football star Lionel Messi has won his seventh Ballon d'Or ...

(Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images) As the 2024 Ballon d’Or winners are announced on Monday, the winner of the men’s award in 2023, Lionel Messi, was conspicuous by his absence. It is the ...

Since its inception in 1956, the Ballon d'Or (or "Golden Ball") has been handed out to the best player of the soccer season. Lionel Messi holds the record for the most Ballon d'Or awards ...

Ronaldo once displayed his competitive side after Messi won the Ballon d’Or in 2023. Messi's remarkable World Cup success with Argentina secured him an unprecedented eighth individual title ...

France Football's top prize became synonymous with the epic Lionel Messi-Cristiano Ronaldo rivalry ... run since he first won it in 2008. The Ballon d'Or, which started in 1956, was originally ...

From bizarre fan theories around a 'bias' against Ronaldo and accusations of disrespect to Messi, Ronaldo and the Ballon d'Or has never been a quiet affair. So, with 2024's ceremony taking place ...

Speaking to Gazzetta (via onefootball.com), Materazzi stated that Martinez should have finished in the top 5 and not 7th ... Lionel Messi talked about the Ballon d'Or in October where he stated ...

Lionel Messi will not be the protagonist at the Ballon d'Or gala in Paris. For the first time since 2003, neither he nor Cristiano Ronaldo were among the candidates for a Ballon d'Or that will be ...

Spanish midfielder Aitana Bonmati retained the women's Ballon d'Or for the second successive ... "About the comparisons with (Lionel) Messi? I don't want to be compared with Messi.

Inter Miami forward, Lionel Messi, has congratulated every nominee and winners at the 2024 Ballon d’Or award. Messi was absent at Monday’s ceremony as he was not excluded from the 30-man ...