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Largest gap between first and last Ballon d'Or awards: 14 years (2009–2023) First player to win the FIFA World Player of the Year/FIFA Ballon d'Or/Best FIFA Men's Player Award in three different decades: 2000s, 2010s, 2020s; First player to win the Ballon d'Or in three different decades: 2000s, 2010s, 2020s
Messi capped off the year by winning the 2015 FIFA Club World Cup final over River Plate in Yokohama, collecting his fifth club trophy of the calendar year. [124] On 11 January 2016, Messi won the FIFA Ballon d'Or for a record fifth time in his career. [125] He would end the season by winning La Liga as well as the Copa del Rey again. [126]
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 ...
The Ballon d'Or is the most prestigious award in football, having been lifted by the greatest players ever since 1956 Every Ballon d'Or winner: A complete list of every men's player to have won ...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Lionel Messi held the Ballon D'Or over his head as fireworks lit up the sky to bring a pregame ceremony to a close. And with that, Inter Miami got to celebrate the ...
For his efforts in 2011, he again received the FIFA Ballon d'Or, becoming only the fourth player in history to win the Ballon d'Or three times, after Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini, and Marco van Basten. [99] Additionally, he won the inaugural UEFA Best Player in Europe Award, a revival of the old-style Ballon d'Or. [100]
Messi lived up to the hype from Day 1, scoring a game-winning goal on a free kick in the final minute of his first game back in June, and finished his first calendar year with Miami with 11 goals ...
The 2009 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in the world as judged by an international panel of sports journalists, was awarded to Lionel Messi of Barcelona on 1 December 2009, the first of his record setting eight Ballon d'Or awards. [1] Messi won the award by a then record margin, 240 points ahead of 2008 winner Cristiano Ronaldo.