The Ballon d'Or is the most important individual award in football. This video looks back at the winners of the Ballon d'Or ...

So, as we approach the end of the first 25 years of the new millennium, GOAL has taken a look back at every Ballon d'Or awarded in the 21st century so far to rank them in terms of brilliance.

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The player with the most Ballon d'Or trophies all-time is Lionel Messi who has won it seven times. Behind him is Messi's long-time rival Cristiano Ronaldo with five Ballon d'Or awards. Together ...

This year of all years it promises to be all the more enjoyable: there is no obvious lock for the prize as there was in most ...

What else did the player do? Ronaldo being awarded the Ballon d'Or simply enforces the sensationalism and gross simplification of modern football, affirming that all that is perceived as relevant ...

HERE ARE ALL THE BALLON D'OR NOMINEES ... Four years after his maiden Ballon d'Or nomination, Ronaldo won the inaugural Puskas Award for the most beautiful goal of the year with his sensational ...

The 2023 Ballon d'Or saw Lionel Messi clinch his eighth award in the trophy's history as old rival Cristiano Ronaldo failed to receive a nomination. The lack of Ronaldo up against Messi marked a ...

his most recent Ballon d'Or is certainly significant. The award was the Argentine star's eighth, which further pads his lead atop the all-time leaderboard. His great rival, Cristiano Ronaldo, now ...

“Benzema has dealt with all that very well,” Ronaldo says ... he is a great player who really deserves to win this Ballon d’Or. He has been playing well for many years, but this last ...

All in all players from 20 different nations ... by some at least, the Golden Ballon d’Or. “Cristiano Ronaldo has only one ambition, and that is to retire with more Ballons d’Or than Messi ...

Juventus and Portugal superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has likened the Ballon d'Or to the Nobel Prize as he ... likes of Michael Jordan and others -- not all athletes -- and their excellence.