Aside from Lionel Messi, who’d signed for Inter Miami by the time he picked up the 2023 Ballon d’Or for his World Cup ...

Nor did Diego Maradona: the 1986 Ballon d’Or was won by Igor Belanov. The side-effect of that was that black players and players of African descent were historically hugely underrepresented in ...

Multimillionnaire, il l'est pourtant, bien qu'il ait joué en des temps où même un Soulier d'Or de la Coupe du monde - et dauphin du Ballon d'Or la même année, en 1986 - ne gagnait pas ...