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.

Lionel Messi's votes for this year's The Best FIFA Men's Player Award might come as a surprise. The Best FIFA Football Awards 2024 honored the top players and coaches in soccer to close out the year.

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 ...

Messi’s stats aren’t too shabby for the ... Spaniards have won the last three awards — Alexia Putellas has two and Aitana Bonmati was the most recent winner. Both are nominated again for ...

From Lionel Messi to Aitana Bonmatí, here are some of the world's best as soccer's G.I. Joes or Barbie dolls. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Messi has done it all ...

Finalists for the Ballon d'Or were announced on Wednesday, and for the first time since 2003, the men's list doesn't include Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo. The list of 30 men's finalists does ...