The Ballon d’Or awards ceremony takes place on the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris this night when soccer’s most prestigious prize is introduced to the most effective footballer from the 2022/23 season.
Lionel Messi, the favorite to win the Ballon d’Or, is essentially the most embellished winner of all time with seven triumphs to his title. His heroics in serving to Argentina win the World Cup imply Messi appears to be like prone to prolong his document with an eighth win however he faces competitors from Manchester Metropolis’s Erling Haaland who had a record-breaking season of his personal and PSG’s Kylian Mbappe after he gained Ligue 1 and performed an enormous half in taking France to the World Cup closing.
The ladies’s award, the Ballon d’Or Féminin, will even be handed out this night. Spain’s Aitana Bonmati is the favorite to succeed Alexia Putellas because the award winner after main Spain to their Girls’s World Cup triumph and Barcelona to the Girls’s Champions League however there could also be some surprises in retailer on the ceremony.
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Lionel Messi is the favorite to win the Ballon d’Or for an eighth time
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Ballon d’Or nominees: Full listing for all 4 awards
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Early listing reveals Mohamed Salah eleventh, Harry Kane in nineteenth
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Jude Bellingham wins Kopa Trophy
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Vinicius Jr succeeeds Sadio Mane as winner of Socrates award
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Barcelona win Membership of the Yr award for FCB Femeni’s triumphs in 22/23
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20:19 , Karl Matchett
Membership president Joan Laporta recieves the award for Membership of the Yr, for the achievements of the ladies’s workforce throughout 2022/23.
FCB Femeni gained the Liga F in Spain, the Supercopa de Espana and the Champions League. In league play they misplaced solely as soon as throughout 30 matches, successful a wild 28 of them.
It’s their Champions League closing comeback which stands out although, 2-0 down after 37 minutes to Wolfsburg earlier than earlier than roaring again to win 3-2.
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20:16 , Karl Matchett
On we go along with the itemizing within the Ballon d’Or Feminin, the primary three inside the highest ten being named…together with one of many Lionesses.
tenth: Rachel Daly – England
ninth: Linda Caicedo – Colombia
eighth: Patricia Guijarro – Spain
And for the boys, the identical:
tenth: Luka Modric – Croatia
ninth: Bernardo Silva – Portugal
eighth: Victor Osimhen – Nigeria
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The total Kopa Trophy listing and Bellingham’s phrases on receiving the trophy.
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Luka Modrid is available in at No.10! We’re heading alongside at a clip. Good things. Straight into the Socrates award now.
This was solely introduced in final yr, with Sadio Mane the winner for his humanitarian work.
Prince Albert II of Monaco is right here to current the award and he palms it over to Vinicius Jr!
The Actual Madrid man was appointed head of Fifa’s anti-racism participant committee earlier this yr. He has additionally been concerned with work with underprivileged children in his house nation.
Didier Drogba presents Vini Jr the chance to ship a “sturdy message” on racism to the soccer world.
Ballon d’Or awards LIVE – Jude Bellingham wins Kopa Trophy
20:01 , Karl Matchett
Didier Drogba and journalist Sandy Heribert are on stage and we’re straight on with it with the primary award, the Kopa Trophy.
And it goes to Jude Bellingham! That was quick. He has loved an excellent begin with Actual Madrid however this award is for final season, his work with Dortmund and England on the World Cup. Jamal Musiala finishes runner-up!
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So what else can we get for our cash tonight? Not simply the Ballon d’Or and Feminin, but additionally the Kopa and Yashin trophies we’ve talked about beforehand. PLUS! The next three:
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Gerd Muller Trophy, for the striker to attain essentially the most objectives for membership and nation
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Socrates Award, which recognises humanitarian work
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Membership of the yr award
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19:53 , Karl Matchett
L’Equipe are exhibiting the clips of the eleventh to fifteenth gamers now – Emi Martinez’s highlights reel from the World Cup was fairly particular, significantly that closing save from Randal Kolo Muani. So many sliding doorways moments in that match!
And but he’s not the highest ranked goalkeeper, with Yassine Bounou, of Morocco and Sevilla final season, pipping him in thirteenth.
Just a few Lewandowski objectives, some Gundogan assists after which Mohamed Salah’s trickery, ending and celebrations.
That’s your handful on the cusp of the highest ten – quickly we’ll be into the chosen few for the primary occasion.
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19:48 , Karl Matchett
All three English gamers revealed there have had nice begins to 2023/24 season too, in three completely different leagues now in fact: Kane in Germany, Bellingham in Spain and Saka remaining within the Premier League.
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19:45 , Karl Matchett
We’re about quarter-hour from the ceremony on account of be beginning, with Didier Drogba the grasp presenter this night.
Mbappe is in the home…so too the trophy itself. Would he be a cert to be lifting it if he had been on the successful workforce within the World Cup closing ten months in the past?
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19:42 , Karl Matchett
Curiously, the Ballon d’Or nominees have simply been launched within the order they completed…as much as the highest ten in fact!
Listed here are the finishers eleventh to thirtieth within the males’s award:
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11. Mohamed Salah (Egypt, Liverpool)
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12. Robert Lewandowski (Poland, Barcelona)
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13. Yassine Bounou (Morocco, Sevilla/Al-Hilal)
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14. Ilkay Gundogan (Germany, Manchester Metropolis/Barcelona)
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15. Emiliano Martinez (Argentina, Aston Villa)
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16. Karim Benzema (France, Actual Madrid/Al-Ittihad)
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17. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Georgia, Napoli)
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18. Jude Bellingham (England, Borussia Dortmund/Actual Madrid)
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19. Harry Kane (England, Tottenham/Bayern Munich)
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20. Lautaro Martinez (Argentina, Inter Milan)
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21. Antoine Griezmann (France, Atletico Madrid)
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22. Min-jae Kim (South Korea, Napoli/Bayern Munich)
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23. Andre Onana (Cameroon, Inter Milan/Manchester United)
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24. Bukayo Saka (England, Arsenal)
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25. Josko Gvardiol (Croatia, Leipzig/Manchester Metropolis)
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26. Jamal Musiala (Germany, Bayern Munich)
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27. Nicolo Barella (Italy, Inter Milan)
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28. Martin Odegaard (Norway, Arsenal)
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28. Randal Kolo Muani (France, Eintracht Frankfurt/Paris St-Germain)
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30. Ruben Dias (Portugal, Manchester Metropolis)
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19:40 , Karl Matchett
Ederson, Bernardo Silva, Rodri and Erling Haaland all make their entrances, the Man Metropolis contingent stopping to take just a few pictures on the way in which and salute the ready followers. Briefly, no less than.
Haaland is grabbed for a fast phrase as he waltzes via and offers his customary temporary, apparent and understated responses.
“I slept rather well, I performed actually good yesterday. I feel it’s each footballer’s dream to win so yeah. All the fellows right here deserve it.”
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19:35 , Karl Matchett
The celebs are arriving! Right here’s the favorite for the boys’s award tonight, Leo Messi with household alongside him.
Will he be celebrating title No.8 tonight? Properly, let’s not spoil it too early…
What’s the distinction between the Ballon d’Or and The Finest Fifa Awards?
19:30 , Karl Matchett
Simply in case you have been questioning what the primary variations are between the 2 showpiece awards, right here’s a fast explainer for you from again in February – when “The Finest” awards have been being given out – which particulars how they took place, who offers every one and the way the voting methods work.
Tonight could be very a lot Ballon d’Or evening!
What’s the distinction between the Ballon d’Or and The Finest Fifa Awards?
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19:24 , Karl Matchett
It’s not all concerning the Ballon d’Or award for Lionel Messi – the large new signing of Inter Miami CF is a finalist for Main League Soccer’s newcomer of the yr too.
The league introduced these up for its year-end awards Thursday with the winners being named all through the MLS Cup Playoffs.
It’s no shock that Messi, Argentina’s nice who joined Inter Miami this summer time, can be up for the dignity. The worldwide nice has created a sensation since coming to play in the US’ prime soccer league. He has posted 11 objectives and eight assists since becoming a member of Miami for the MLS Leagues Cup competitors in July.
Lionel Messi is a finalist for the MLS Newcomer of the Yr award
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Georgia Stanway says it’s irritating the Ballon d’Or ceremony going down on the eve of a spherical of girls’s worldwide video games was not “deliberate somewhat bit higher”.
The England and Bayern Munich midfielder is among the many nominees however won’t be at Monday night’s ceremony in Paris as she prepares for the Lionesses’ match in opposition to Belgium in Leuven, a part of a busy schedule of Nations League fixtures on Tuesday.
Stanway, whose worldwide team-mates Mary Earps, Millie Brilliant and Rachel Daly have additionally been shortlisted for the distinguished awards, informed a press convention relating to her nomination: “It’s very cool, and good to get the accolade in addition to lots of the team-mates within the Lionesses.
“There’s just a few individuals I’d additionally add to the listing who’ve had very, very profitable years. It’s an actual achievement to be amongst these names.
“It’s unlucky we couldn’t be there. That’s one thing we spoke as a participant group (about), and we simply type of mentioned it could be good sooner or later if it wasn’t on a matchday minus one, in order that we might benefit from the expertise. It’s (irritating), as a result of it’s probably a once-in-a-lifetime alternative. You by no means know for those who’re ever going to get chosen for such an accolade like that once more, so it could be very nice to benefit from the expertise and be there and really feel like a star amongst the celebs.”
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Georgia Stanway disenchanted to overlook ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ Ballon d’Or ceremony
Lionel Messi is now not the most effective on the earth however he nonetheless deserves one final Ballon d’Or
19:12 , Karl Matchett
For the eighth and possibly final time, Lionel Messi will win the Ballon d’Or tonight. Messi will beat competitors from Manchester Metropolis’s treble-winners, an inevitable outcome after he impressed Argentina to their first World Cup since Diego Maradona did the identical in 1986. The betting has stopped, and the one thriller left at the Paris ceremony is to guess the material of his swimsuit.
Messi’s journey could be informed in soccer and in style decisions. He collected his first Ballon d’Or in 2009 carrying a primary black swimsuit and tie, trying like a boy on the college promenade, and with every passing yr his apparel grew to become extra daring: the bow tie and tux in 2010, the velvet sheen in 2011 and the garish polka dots in 2012 symbolising the blooming confidence of a younger man who might do no incorrect, who might take a hideous swimsuit like a foul go and switch it into one thing nice, or no less than barely much less hideous, by dint of his personal brilliance.
Issues acquired somewhat out of hand in 2013 when he wore a full purple ensemble, an outfit which, in hindsight, didn’t need to win. Messi was crushed by Cristiano Ronaldo two years in a row, and when he lastly resumed his throne in 2015, he did so again in a traditional black tuxedo. In 2019, Messi’s easy gray tie was a suitably sombre look to finish his four-year winless drought, earlier than the shimmering sparkles of 2021 which lit him up like a galaxy as he claimed No 7.
Lawrence Ostlere takes a have a look at Messi’s magic – and his wardrobe – because the Ballon d’Or awards method:
Lionel Messi is now not the most effective on the earth however he deserves one final Ballon d’Or
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19:06 , Karl Matchett
…and the ‘trendy’ period, often known as the Cristiano and Messi period. It’s pretty routine and repetitive, so far as being regularly the best (as voted by those that do, no less than) goes.
2008 Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal
2009 Lionel Messi, Argentina
2010 Lionel Messi, Argentina
2011 Lionel Messi, Argentina
2012 Lionel Messi, Argentina
2013 Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal
2014 Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal
2015 Lionel Messi, Argentina
2016 Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal
2017 Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal
2018 Luka Modric, Croatia
2019 Lionel Messi, Argentina
2020 Not Awarded, Covid
2021 Lionel Messi, Argentina
2022 Karim Benzema, France
2023 … ?!
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How a few trek via historical past and the earlier winners of the Ballon d’Or?
All the way in which again to 1990 we go! Let’s face it, not a lot level beginning 2008 or any later as there aren’t too many names on it from that time…!
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1990 Lothar Matthaus, Germany
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1991 Jean Pierre Papin, France
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1992 Marco van Basten, Netherlands
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1993 Roberto Baggio, Italy
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1994 Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgaria
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1995 George Weah, Liberia
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1996 Matthias Sammer, Germany
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1997 Ronaldo, Brazil
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1998 Zinedine Zidane, France
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1999 Rivaldo, Brazil
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2000 Luis Figo, Portugal
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2001 Michael Owen, England
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2002 Ronaldo, Brazil
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2003 Pavel Nedved, Czech Republic
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2004 Andriy Shevchenko, Ukraine
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2005 Ronaldinho, Brazil
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2006 Fabio Cannavaro, Italy
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2007 Kaka, Brazil
Ballon d’Or shortlist: Who’re the nominees for 2023 award tonight?
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Ballon d’Or 2023: Who’s nominated for the Kopa Trophy?
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Xavi (RB Leipzig / PSV Eindhoven)
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Jamal Musiala (FC Bayern)
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Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund / Actual Madrid)
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Alejandro Balde (FC Barcelona)
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Eduardo Camavinga (Actual Madrid)
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Gavi (FC Barcelona)
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Rasmus Höjlund (Atalanta / Manchester United)
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Pedri (FC Barcelona)
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Antonio Silva (Benfica)
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Elye Wahi (HSC Montpellier / RC Lens)
Ballon d’Or shortlist: Who’re the nominees for 2023 award tonight?
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Ballon d’Or 2023: Who’s shortlisted for the Yashin Trophy?
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Brice Samba (Lens)
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Dominik Livakovic (Dinamo Zagreb and Fenerbahce)
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Aaron Ramsdale (Arsenal)
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Andre Onana (Inter Milan and Manchester United)
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Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa)
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Ederson (Manchester Metropolis)
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Marc-Andre Ter Stegen (Barcelona)
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Mike Maignan (AC Milan)
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Thibaut Courtois (Actual Madrid)
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Yassine Bounou (Sevilla and Al-Hilal)
Ballon d’Or shortlist: Who’re the nominees for 2023 award tonight?
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Ballon d’Or Féminin 2023: Who’s nominated for the ladies’s award?
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Daphne Van Domselaar (Twente and Aston Villa)
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Lena Oberdorf (Vfl Wolfsburg)
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Hinata Miyazawa (MyNavi Sendai)
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Millie Brilliant (Chelsea)
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Salma Paralluelo (Barcelona)
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Sophia Smith (Portland Thorns)
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Hayley Raso (Manchester Metropolis and Actual Madrid)
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Amanda Ilestedt (Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal)
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Georgia Stanway (Bayern Munich)
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Olga Carmona (Actual Madrid)
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Fridolina Rolfo (Barcelona)
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Rachel Daly (Aston Villa)
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Alba Redondo (Levante)
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Lina Caicedo (Actual Madrid)
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Kadidiatou Diani (Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique Lyonnais)
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Patricia Guijarro (Barcelona)
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Ewa Pajor (Vfl Wolfsburg)
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Guro Reiten (Chelsea)
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Sam Kerr (Chelsea)
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Debinha (North Carlina Braveness and Kansas Metropolis Present)
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Aitana Bonmati (Barcelona)
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Alexandra Popp (Vfl Wolfsburg)
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Yui Hasegawa (Manchester Metropolis)
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Jill Roord (Vfl Wolfsburg and Manchester Metropolis)
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Katie McCabe (Arsenal)
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Wendie Renard (Olympique Lyonnais)
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Asisat Oshoala (Barcelona)
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Mary Earps (Manchester United)
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Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw (Manchester Metropolis)
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Mapi Leon (Barcelona)
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18:36 , Karl Matchett
Ballon d’Or 2023: Who’s nominated for the boys’s award?
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Josko Gvardiol (RB Leipzig and Manchester Metropolis)
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Andre Onana (Inter Milan and Manchester United)
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Karim Benzema (Actual Madrid and Al-Ittihad)
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Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)
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Jamal Musiala (Bayern Munich)
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Bukayo Saka (Arsenal)
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Randal Kolo Muani (Eintracht Frankfurt and Paris Saint-Germain)
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Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund and Actual Madrid)
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Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester Metropolis)
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Bernardo Silva (Manchester Metropolis)
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Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Napoli)
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Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa)
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Ruben Dias (Manchester Metropolis)
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Nicolo Barella (Inter Milan)
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Erling Haaland (Manchester Metropolis)
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Martin Odegaard (Arsenal)
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Ilkay Gundogan (Manchester Metropolis and Barcelona)
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Yassine Bounou (Sevilla and Al-Hilal)
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Julian Alvarez (Manchester Metropolis)
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Vinicius Jr (Actual Madrid)
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Rodrigo (Manchester Metropolis)
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Lionel Messi (Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Miami)
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Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid)
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Lautaro Martinez (Inter Milan)
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Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona)
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Kim Min-jae (Napoli and Bayern Munich)
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Luka Modric (Actual Madrid)
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Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-German)
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Victor Osimhen (Napoli)
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Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur and Bayern Munich)
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18:30 , Karl Matchett
A reminder that tonight’s not nearly these two main awards for the boys’s and ladies’s recreation.
We’ll additionally see the Yashin trophy handed out for the highest goalkeeper of the yr, and the Kopa trophy for the most effective teenager round.
The present holders of these two are Actual Madrid’s Thibaut Courtois and Barcelona’s Gavi respectively.
Earlier winners of the Yashin are Alisson Becker and Gianluigi Donnaruma.
And the earliest Kopa winners have been Kylian Mbappe, Matthijs de Ligt and Pedri.
Ballon d’Or odds listing
18:20 , Karl Matchett
Not a lot to separate the favourites…solely kidding. Leo Messi is much and away the favorite to win after triumphing on the World Cup. Odds from playing.com:
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Messi 1/9
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Haaland 9/2
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Vini Jr 50/1
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De Bruyne 50/1
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Rodri 50/1
And for the Feminin winner, Aitana Bonmati is a equally overwhelming favorite:
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Bonmati 1/5
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Carmona 8/1
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Earps 10/1
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Kerr 16/1
Lionel Messi is now not the most effective on the earth however he nonetheless deserves one final Ballon d’Or
18:10 , Karl Matchett
For the eighth and possibly final time, Lionel Messi will win the Ballon d’Or tonight. Messi will beat competitors from Manchester Metropolis’s treble-winners, an inevitable outcome after he impressed Argentina to their first World Cup since Diego Maradona did the identical in 1986. The betting has stopped, and the one thriller left at the Paris ceremony is to guess the material of his swimsuit.
Messi’s journey could be informed in soccer and in style decisions. He collected his first Ballon d’Or in 2009 carrying a primary black swimsuit and tie, trying like a boy on the college promenade, and with every passing yr his apparel grew to become extra daring: the bow tie and tux in 2010, the velvet sheen in 2011 and the garish polka dots in 2012 symbolising the blooming confidence of a younger man who might do no incorrect, who might take a hideous swimsuit like a foul go and switch it into one thing nice, or no less than barely much less hideous, by dint of his personal brilliance.
Issues acquired somewhat out of hand in 2013 when he wore a full purple ensemble, an outfit which, in hindsight, didn’t need to win. Messi was crushed by Cristiano Ronaldo two years in a row, and when he lastly resumed his throne in 2015, he did so again in a traditional black tuxedo. In 2019, Messi’s easy gray tie was a suitably sombre look to finish his four-year winless drought, earlier than the shimmering sparkles of 2021 which lit him up like a galaxy as he claimed No 7.
Lawrence Ostlere takes a have a look at Messi’s magic – and his wardrobe – because the Ballon d’Or awards method:
Lionel Messi is now not the most effective on the earth however he deserves one final Ballon d’Or
Georgia Stanway disenchanted to overlook ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ Ballon d’Or ceremony
18:05 , Karl Matchett
Georgia Stanway says it’s irritating the Ballon d’Or ceremony going down on the eve of a spherical of girls’s worldwide video games was not “deliberate somewhat bit higher”.
The England and Bayern Munich midfielder is among the many nominees however won’t be at Monday night’s ceremony in Paris as she prepares for the Lionesses’ match in opposition to Belgium in Leuven, a part of a busy schedule of Nations League fixtures on Tuesday.
Stanway, whose worldwide team-mates Mary Earps, Millie Brilliant and Rachel Daly have additionally been shortlisted for the distinguished awards, informed a press convention relating to her nomination: “It’s very cool, and good to get the accolade in addition to lots of the team-mates within the Lionesses.
“There’s just a few individuals I’d additionally add to the listing who’ve had very, very profitable years. It’s an actual achievement to be amongst these names.
“It’s unlucky we couldn’t be there. That’s one thing we spoke as a participant group (about), and we simply type of mentioned it could be good sooner or later if it wasn’t on a matchday minus one, in order that we might benefit from the expertise. It’s (irritating), as a result of it’s probably a once-in-a-lifetime alternative.”
Georgia Stanway disenchanted to overlook ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ Ballon d’Or ceremony
What time is the Ballon d’Or tonight?
16:31 , Karl Matchett
The Ballon d’Or awards ceremony takes place tonight when soccer’s most prestigious particular person prize is introduced to essentially the most worthy recipient. The Ballon d’Or and Ballon d’Or Féminin are annual awards introduced by French information journal France Soccer and have been operating since 1956.
Karim Benzema, who led Actual Madrid to the Champions League, LaLiga, Uefa Tremendous Cup and Spanish Tremendous Cup titles, lifted the Ballon d’Or trophy final yr whereas Alexia Putellas gained the ladies’s award for a second consecutive yr.
Lionel Messi is essentially the most embellished Ballon d’Or winner with seven triumphs to his title and is the large favorite to be awarded the trophy once more this yr after his heroics in serving to Argentina win the World Cup. Messi faces competitors from Manchester Metropolis’s Erling Haaland and PSG’s Kylian Mbappe.
Aitana Bonmati is the favorite to succeed Putellas for the Ballon d’Or Feminin after main Spain to the Girls’s World Cup and Barcelona to the Girls’s Champions League. Bonmati was named participant of the event in each the World Cup and Champions League, whereas Chelsea and Australia star Sam Kerr might place extremely.
Right here’s all the pieces it is advisable to know forward of the ceremony:
