The Ballon d’Or award.. France Football announces the winner tomorrow
France Football magazine will reveal the winners of the Ballon d’Or award
for the best female footballer in the world for the 2021-2022 season.
The Ballon d’Or handover ceremony will be held at Chatelier Theater in
the French capital, Paris, at 7:00 pm GMT.
Among the most prominent candidates for the award in the said season,
the star of the French national team and Real Madrid, Karim Benzema,
who was nominated by many players and specialized newspapers,
after a very successful season for him, in light of the fading of other stars
that had previously dominated the Golden Ball, such as Argentine Lionel Messi
The Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo.
Here are some of the most prominent nominees for the 30-player Ballon d’Or award,
and they are as follows:
Belgian Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid).
Egyptian Mohamed Salah (Liverpool).
England’s Alexander Arlund (Liverpool).
Brazilian Vinicius Junior (Real Madrid).
Portuguese Bernardo Silva (Manchester City).
Poland’s Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich/Barcelona).
Algerian Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City).
Brazilian Casemiro (Real Madrid/Manchester United).
South Korea’s Heung-Min Son (Tottenham Hotspur).
French Karim Benzema (Real Madrid).
England’s Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur).
England’s Phil Foden (Manchester City).
Senegalese Sadio Mane (Liverpool / Bayern Munich).
Croatian Luka Modric (Real Madrid).
Belgian Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City).
Norwegian Erling Haaland (Borussia Dortmund / Manchester City).
French Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain).
Benzema is an extraordinary candidate
Real Madrid striker, French international Karim Benzema, appears to be an
extraordinary candidate to win the Ballon d’Or this year, becoming the first
Frenchman to win the prestigious award since Zinedine Zidane after nearly
a quarter of a century.
The 34-year-old scored 44 goals in 46 games in all competitions last season with
the Royal Club, including 15 in the Champions League. France Football announces the winner tomorrow
In the continental competition, Benzema presented extraordinary levels in front
of the strongest teams of the tournament, recording a hat-trick against Paris Saint-Germain
within 17 minutes in the second half in the second leg of the first leg of the final,
and Chelsea in England in the first leg of the quarter-finals. He also scored three
goals in the two semi-final matches against Manchester City, to lead the team
to the final, in which it beat Liverpool.
Benzema won the European Player of the Year award presented by
the European Union for the game “UEFA”, last August and is going through
the best period of his career nearly a month before the World Cup.
If he wins, Benzema will become the fifth Frenchman to achieve this feat
after Raymond Kopa (1958), Michel Platini (1983, 1984, 1985), Jean-Pierre Papin (1991)
and Zinedine Zidane (1998).
Previously, the award was given based on the player’s performance throughout the year,
but the system has changed, and it is now based on what he offers during the season.
Messi’s absence and Ronaldo’s presence
Last year, Argentine Lionel Messi won the Ballon d’Or for the seventh time,
enhancing his record, but he was not a candidate this year after a disappointing
first season with Paris Saint-Germain.
The Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, who has been crowned five times, is present,
while the Brazilian Neymar, Messi’s colleague at Saint Germain, is absent from
the list of candidates.
Record the winners since the first edition
Here are the names of the winners of the Ballon d’Or award for the best footballer since 1956:
2021: Lionel Messi
2019: Lionel Messi
2018: Croatia’s Luka Modric
2017: Cristiano Ronaldo
2016: Cristiano Ronaldo
2015: Lionel Messi
2014: Cristiano Ronaldo
2013: Cristiano Ronaldo
2012: Lionel Messi
2011: Lionel Messi
2010: Lionel Messi
2009: Lionel Messi
2008: Cristiano Ronaldo
2007: Brazilian Ricardo Kaká
2006: Fabio Cannavaro, Italy
2005: Brazilian Ronaldinho
2004: Andrey Shevchenko, Ukraine
2003: Czech Pavel Nedved
2002: Brazilian Ronaldo
2001: England’s Michael Owen
2000: Luis Figo, Portugal
1999: Brazilian Rivaldo
1998: French Zinedine Zidane
1997: Brazilian Ronaldo
1996: Matthias Sammer, Germany
1995: Liberian George Weah
1994: Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian
1993: Italian Roberto Baggio
1992: Dutch Marco van Basten
1991: Jean-Pierre Papin, French
1990: German Lothar Matthaus
1989: Dutch Marco van Basten
1988: Dutch Marco van Basten
1987: Dutchman Ruud Gullit
1986: Soviet Igor Belanov
1985: Frenchman Michel Platini
1984: Frenchman Michel Platini
1983: Frenchman Michel Platini
1982: Italian Paolo Rossi
1981: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
1980: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Germany
1979: England’s Kevin Keegan
1978: England’s Kevin Keegan
1977: Denmark’s Alan Simonsen
1976: German Franz Beckenbauer
1975: Soviet Oleg Blokhin
1974: Johan Cruyff, Dutch
1973: Dutchman Johan Cruyff
1972: German Franz Beckenbauer
1971: Johan Cruyff, Dutch
1970: Gerd Muller, Germany
1969: Italian Gianni Rivera
1968: Northern Irishman George Best
1967: Hungarian Florian Albert
1966: England’s Bobby Charlton
1965: Portuguese Eusebio
1964: Scotsman Denise Lowe
1963: Soviet goalkeeper Lev Yashin
1962: Czechoslovakian Joseph Masopust
1961: Italian Omar Sivori
1960: Luis Soares, Spain
1959: Alfredo Di Stefano of Spain
1958: Frenchman Raymond Cuba
1957: Alfredo Di Stefano of Spain
1956: England’s Stanley Matthews
France Football announces the winner tomorrow
