Lionel Messi won a record-extending eighth Ballon d’Or on Monday, while Barcelona and Spain star Aitana Bonmatí won the Ballon d’Or Féminin – the annual soccer awards celebrating the best ...

Lionel Messi added another notch to his legend on Monday, winning the Ballon d'Or as the world's best soccer player for a record eighth time. The women's award went to Spain's Aitana Bonmatí.

Bonmati joined Barca team-mate Alexia Putellas ... "About the comparisons with (Lionel) Messi? I don't want to be compared with Messi. It's too difficult to achieve what he did.

and the sense that this is something of a fallow period of world-class players now Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are playing outside the elite leagues, Bonmati might be the world’s most ...

ZURICH — The FIFA best men’s player award for 2023 will be another contest between Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland. FIFA announced the shortlist on Thursday with the same top ...

Bonmati won the award for best women’s player ... ahead of Dani Carvajal and Lamine Yamal, with Lionel Messi — who had won the award the previous two years — sixth. Madrid manager Carlo ...

Perennial award winners Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are on the men's shortlist ... Spain metronome Aitana Bonmati, who was won successive Ballon d'Or gongs, is among the stacked midfield ...