Vinicius Junior did not win the Ballon d'Or in 2024, but Karim Benzema is convinced the forward will be acknowledged in the ...

Who, if anyone, has reached the sort of numbers in 2024 that Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo were posting when they were respectively the same age?

Benzema won the Ballon d'Or in 2022 after a season in which he led Madrid to a LaLiga and Champions League double -- a feat which wasn't enough to see Vinicius handed the prize two years later.

"We'll keep working, because we haven't won anything yet." Benzema, himself a Ballon d'Or winner in 2022, added that a return to Madrid in some form was not out of the question. "Why not?" ...

Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice for Al-Nassr in a 3-1 victory over Al-Khaleej to move atop the Saudi Pro League goalscoring standings above Aleksandar Mitrovic and Karim Benzema ...

A leading member of the attacking ranks at La Liga giants Barcelona has on Tuesday again seen his name linked with the Ballon ...

Napoli beat Jurgen Klopp's Reds 4-1 with Kvaratskhelia impressing after causing the Liverpool defence all sorts of trouble ...

Cristiano Ronaldo has reignited the debate over this year’s Ballon d’Or by branding Rodri’s victory “unfair”. Ronaldo left Real way back in 2018 but is still siding with the Spanish giants.

Ronaldo's second spell at United ended in November 2022, with disagreements between ... "Vinicius deserved the Ballon d'Or," Ronaldo said. "It was unfair (to lose it). I say it in front of everyone." ...

The contrast with City’s response to Erling Haaland losing the 2023 Ballon d’Or to Lionel Messi is stark. Haaland enjoyed one of the greatest individual seasons in modern football in 2022/23 ...

Salah came closest to doing so in 2019 and 2022, when he finished fifth in ... one of the early favourite’s for next year’s Ballon d’Or, though, following a sensational start to the season.