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Ousmane Dembélé has emerged as the favourite to win the Ballon d'Or after PSG made the Champions League final.
As the most prestigious individual award in global football, the Ballon d'Or dominates the annual conversation throughout ...
The best player in men's world football will be crowned in Paris in October. Here are the latest betting odds and rankings as ...
The Sporting News will update this page throughout 2025 as the candidates to win the award stake their claims. Here are the top 10 players in contention for the Ballon d'Or, ranked by how The ...
Moreover, Yamal could shatter Ballon d’Or records and become, by a wide margin, the youngest player ever to win the prestigious award. Beyond his astonishing individual talent, Lamine Yamal is also ...
Messi was 22 when he first won the Ballon d’Or so, at 17, Yamal is on course to beat him by four years and become comfortably the youngest winner in the award's long and illustrious history. Barca ...
In the current age of social media, it is seen as cool for team accounts to produce posts taking shots at opposing teams and their players. Real Betis' Instagram account has done just that, aiming ...
And as the Ballon d'Or favorite, he would be the youngest player to ever win the award, by over four years (Brazilian Ronaldo was 21 in 1997). He was the youngest player to feature in last year's ...
Trent Alexander-Arnold is leaving Liverpool. His move to Real Madrid is now all but inevitable. The Premier League champions beat Madrid as recently as November, but the lure of Europe’s most ...
Cristiano dos Santos, the eldest son of five-time Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo, was called up to the Portugal Under-15 squad for the first time on Tuesday. The 14-year-old, who ...