Lionel Messi Delivers Two-Word Ballon d’Or Admission

Real Madrid fullback Trent Alexander-Arnold was presented with the same choice as Messi: Ballon d’Or or World Cup. The ...
Tribal Football

Messi and Mbappe send messages to Ballon d'Or winner Dembele: My brother, you deserve it!

Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe have sent messages to Ballon d'Or winner Ousmane Dembélé after he lifted the award. After he was announced as the winner, former PSG teammate Messi sent a short message ...
The New York Times

The Ballon d’Or and why football has become so obsessed with individual awards

It is almost a quarter of a century since Michael Owen won the Ballon d’Or, and the story of his coronation as Europe’s best footballer belongs to a different era. Word of the young forward’s ascent ...
The Daily Campus

The Full 90: Beyond Messi & Ronaldo — Ballon d’Or and the dawn of a new era

The Ballon d’Or is football’s most illustrious individual award; to win it means to be immortalized in football history forever. Essentially, voters get together to decide who should be considered the ...

Viral! Lionel Messi returns to Barcelona's home Camp Nou: 'I returned to a place I miss with my soul'

Lionel Messi made an emotional, unannounced return to Camp Nou after leading Inter Miami to a playoff victory. The football ...