Spanish footballer Rodrigo Hernandez Cascante has won the Ballon d’Or 2024 award. He won the Ballon d’Or, called the biggest award in football, by defeating Real Madrid stars Vinicius Junior and Jude Bellingham. 28-year-old Rodri started his senior career with Villa Real in 2015. He then went to Atletico Madris and has been a part of Manchester City since 2019. This is defensive midfielder Rodri’s first Ballon d’Or award. Barcelona’s Aitana Bonamiti won the Ballon d’Or for the second consecutive year in the women’s category. The 2023-24 season was great for Rodri
Rodri performed the best of his career in the 2023-24 season. This year he played an important role in helping Manchester City win the Premier League title for the fourth consecutive time. This time when Spain won the European Championship title for a record fourth time, Rodri was voted the best player. Messi-Ronaldo not in Ballon d’Or nominations after 21 years
The nomination list for Ballon d’Or 2024 was released in August. World champion Argentina’s legendary footballer Lionel Messi and Portugal’s footballer Cristiano Ronaldo were not in this list. This happened after 21 years when the names of these two were not in the list of this award, before this it happened in 2003. Messi got the award last year
Lionel Messi won the Ballon d’Or award last year in 2023. He was given this award by Inter Miami club owner and football legend David Beckham. Messi won this award a record 8 times. He is the player who has won the Ballon d’Or the most number of times. At the same time, Ronaldo has won it 5 times. Both have 13 awards to their names. This year’s award winner will be announced on October 28. Messi-Ronaldo got the award for 10 consecutive years
This award has been won by Messi and Ronaldo for 10 consecutive years. Both have won this award from 2008 to 2017. Talking about nominations, from 2003 to 2023, one of these two has been in the nomination. What is the Ballon d’Or award?
The Ballon d’Or is the most prestigious award in football, which is an honor given to the player individually. The winner is selected on the basis of voting. In men’s, the top 100 countries of the FIFA ranking have got the opportunity to choose the top-5 players. Out of this, the player who gets the most votes is given this award. In women’s, the top-50 countries do the voting. The Ballon d’Or is given to one of the players of the football club and national team every year on the basis of best performance. This tradition has been going on since 1956. Earlier it was given only to male players. Now it is being given to women players from 2018.
