The best African player on the planet.The CAF Awards 2025 ceremony, which honors the standout figures of African football for ...

Mbappe captains France heading into the World Cup, and has a strong squad around him. Already the only player to score four ...

Idrissa Gana Gueye believes his Everton and Senegal team-mate Iliman Ndiaye could become the next African Ballon d'Or winner.

Achraf Hakimi’s win at the 2025 African Ballon d’Or in Rabat has been widely praised by French media, who described the award ...

This article was originally published on www.si.com as The 15 Favorites to Win the 2026 Ballon d’Or—Ranked. The latest victor ...

Paris Saint-Germain head coach Luis Enrique spoke about the recovery of Ousmane Dembele. Since winning the 2025 Ballon d’Or, ...

Harry Kane is in exceptional form this season for both Bayern Munich and the England national football team. The 32-year-old ...

There are only five broadly defensive players to have been dubbed the game's finest: goalkeeper Lev Yashin in 1963, Franz ...

Chelsea’s precocious teenager Estêvão has been backed to win the Ballon d’Or in the future following an exceptional start to ...

The winners of the Ballon d’Or football's (soccer’s) most prestigious individual prize were announced in a ceremony by France football at the Theater De Chaulet in Paris. As was widely predicted, ...

Cole Palmer may have just been named in the FIFPRO Men’s World XI – but he’s not Chelsea’s current best player. That’s the ...

After Cristiano Ronaldo admitted that he doesn't dream of winning the World Cup, we take a look at 10 Ballon d'Or winners who did not win the World Cup in their careers.