Gullit named fellow Ballon d'Or winner, Kaka, as the one to man the right wing in his team. The Brazilian arrived at the San Siro long after his departure, but he was still full of praise for the ...

The Ballon d'Or is an annual football award presented by French magazine France Football and is considered the greatest individual prize in football. Manchester City midfielder Rodri was most ...

Liverpool could be handed a boost in their attempts to hang on to Mohamed Salah after he was tipped to win the Ballon d’Or. Salah craves being crowned the world’s best footballer and knows ...

Kylian Mbappe believes he should have won the Ballon d’Or in 2018 and he was only denied the 2023 award because France lost the World Cup final in a penalty shootout. “Mbappe’s quest for ...

Former Inter and Milan midfielder Sulley Muntari says Zlatan Ibrahimovic ‘talked too much’ to win the Ballon d’Or and recalls José Mourinho’s call to bring him to Inter. The former ...

Karim Benzema told former Real Madrid team-mate Vinicius Junior that he "will win the Ballon d’Or" one day. The 15-time Champions League winners are in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for the Spanish Super ...

Ibrahima Konate says he is inspired to win trophies for "unbelievable" team-mate Mo Salah in the hope that the forward can win the Ballon d'Or for the first time. "Everything he has done since the ...

“Individual trophies count too, like the Ballon d’Or. I know what I have to do to win it, a lot of things on and off the field. When I do everything I need to do to win it, I will win it ...

Adolfo Bautista, a former Mexico international, took to Instagram on Monday to hit back at the 8-time Ballon d’Or winner. He shared an image of himself with Messi on the pitch, tagged the ...