Ballon'dor(golden ball)

Ballon d’Or this is the Golden ball which is given to the best player of the season most so the most Ballon dor only Lionel Messi have Messi have 7 Ballon dor and in second place there cristiano ronaldo which have total 5 ballon'dor.
The history of the ballon'dor past winners.

Stanley Matthews won the first-ever Ballon d’Or award in 1956, while Norway’s Ada Hegerberg was the first recipient of the Ballon d’Or Feminin in 2018.

The Ballon d’Or, organised by the France Football magazine, is awarded annually to the world’s best footballer who was a cut above the rest and stood out with their performances over the previous year.

The Ballon d’Or award is the brainchild of former France footballer and journalist Gabriel Hanot, who is also credited for conceiving the Ligue 1 championship in France and co-founding the European Cup - now known as the UEFA Champions League.Instituted in 1956, the Ballon d’Or award was initially considered as the European Footballer of the Year award as it was only open to European players at European clubs.

So there are some question about who is the first winner most ballon'dor :-

1. Who was the first Ballon d’Or winner?           -- Stanley Matthews won the first-ever Ballon d’Or award in 1956. Known for his exquisite close contro, great dribbling ability on field  . The fixture later came to be known as the Matthews final. He also finished as a runner-up in the English top-flight with Blackpool in the 1955-56 season en-route to becoming the first Ballon d’Or winner.

2.Who won the first Ballon d'Or as a female football player?                                                    -Norway striker Ada Hegerberg is the first winner of the Ballon d’or Feminin award that was introduced in 2018.

3.Who has won most Ballon d’Or?                   --Lionel Messi has won the most Ballon d’Or awards in history, with seven wins, two more than rival Cristiano Ronaldo. The Argentina play3r won four successive Ballon d’Or awards between 2009 and 2012 and was the first player to win the FIFA Ballon d’Or.        The Barcelona iconic player linonel Messi  now plays for Paris Saint-Germain, won a record seventh Ballon d’Or in 2021 Argentina claim the Copa America and also won the Copa Del Rey 2020-21 with the Catalan giants.

Ballon d’Or winners list

1956: Stanley Matthews (Blackpool)

1957: Alfredo Di Stefano (Real Madrid)

1958: Raymond Kopa (Real Madrid)

1959: Alfredo Di Stefano (Real Madrid)

1960: Luis Suarez (Barcelona)

1961: Omar Sivori (Juventus)

1962: Josef Masopust (Dukla Prague

1963: Lev Yashin (Dynamo Moscow)

1964: Denis Law (Manchester United)

1965: Eusebio (Benfica)

1966: Bobby Charlton (Manchester United)

1967: Florian Albert (Ferencvaros)

1968: George Best (Manchester United)

1969: Gianni Rivera (Milan)

1970: Gerd Muller (Bayern Munich)

1971: Johan Cruyff (Ajax)

1972: Franz Beckenbauer (Bayern Munich)

1973: Johan Cruyff (Barcelona)

1974: Johan Cruyff (Barcelona)

1975: Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)

1976: Franz Beckenbauer (Bayern Munich)

1977: Allan Simonsen (Borussia Monchengladbach

1978: Kevin Keegan (Hamburg)

1979: Kevin Keegan (Hamburg)

1980: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (Bayern Munich)

1981: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (Bayern Munich)

1982: Paolo Rossi (Juventus)

1983: Michel Platini (Juventus)

1984: Michel Platini (Juventus)

1985: Michel Platini (Juventus)

1986: Igor Belanov (Dynamo Kyiv)

1987: Ruud Gullit (Milan)

1988: Marco van Basten (Milan)

1989: Marco van Basten (Milan)

1990: Lothar Matthaus (Inter Milan

1991: Jean-Pierre Papin (Marseille)

1992: Marco van Basten (AC Milan)

1993: Roberto Baggio (Juventus)

1994: Hristo Stoichkov (Barcelona)

1995: George Weah (Milan)

1996: Matthias Sammer (Borussia Dortmund)

1997: Ronaldo (Inter Milan)

1998: Zinedine Zidane (Juventus)

1999: Rivaldo (Barcelona)

2000: Luis Figo (Real Madrid)

2001: Michael Owen (Liverpool)

2002: Ronaldo (Real Madrid)

2003: Pavel Nedved (Juventus)

2004: Andriy Shevchenko (Milan)

2005: Ronaldinho (Barcelona)

2006: Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid

2007: Kaka (Milan)

2008: Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)

2009: Lionel Messi (Barcelona)

2010: Lionel Messi (Barcelona

2011: Lionel Messi (Barcelona)

2012: Lionel Messi (Barcelona)

2013: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)

2014: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)

2015: Lionel Messi (Barcelona)

2016: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)

2017: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid

2018: Luka Modric (Real Madrid)

2019: Lionel Messi (Barcelona)

2021: Lionel Messi (Paris Saint-Germain)

Ballon d’Or Feminin winners list

2018: Ada Hegerberg (Lyon

2019: Megan Rapinoe (OL Reign)

2021: Alexia Putellas (Barcelona)











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