Sentences with phrase «football award ballon»

FIFA player of the year and France football award Ballon d'Or combined, award More...

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With Barcelona and Real Madrid such giants in European football it's understandable that they would regularly produce winners, but who would have won the Ballon d'Or each year if any one player could only win the award once?

The Ballon d'Or began in 1956, when French magazine France Football instituted an award for European footballers playing with European clubs, as voted for by European journalists.

It is a fair reward for how well the Arsenal and Chile forward has taken the English Premier League by storm since signing from Barcelona last summer that the name of Alexis Sanchez is among the 23 players from the world of football that have made the shortlist for the FIFA Ballon D'Or awarded to the best player for the calendar year.

In the last 10 years, world football has been dominated by both Messi and Ronaldo, with both of the two superstars collecting five Ballon D'Or awards each.

Individually, he has earned honors as the Professional Footballers» Association (PFA) Young Player of the Year (2001), PFA Player of the Year (2006), Football Writers» Association (FWA) Footballer of the Year (2009), PFA Fans» Player of the Year (2001, 2009), PFA Team of the Year (2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014), FA England Player of the Year (2007, 2012), UEFA Club Footballer of the Year (2005) and FIFA's Ballon d'Or Bronze Award (2005).

During the televised ceremony, the winner of the FIFA Ballon d'Or for the best player of 2014 and the winner of the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year 2014 award will also be revealed, while the FIFA World Coach of the Year awards for men's and women's football will be presented for the fifth time.

FIFA Ballon d'Or award is the highest level of individual award in football and it is awarded to the best player in the world every year.

Isco is one of the hottest properties in European football and his Golden Boy award, the Under 21 equivalent of the Ballon D'Or, this year came as no surprise following his performances... [Read more...]

Four France players have been nominated for the prestigious Ballon D'Or award by France Football.

As recognition of his wonderful achievements, Ronaldo was recently awarded the prestigious Ballon d'Or award after winning a majority of votes among football journalists and it has to be said that the Portuguese attacker... [Read more...]

MADRID: Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo has said he wants to win seven Ballon d'Or awards before retiring.

Ronaldo won the inaugural Best FIFA men's player of the year award last year following the end of a six - year merger between the FIFA honour and France Football's Ballon D'Or.

The four - time Ballon d'Or / World Player of the Year award winner will go down in history as one of the greatest players to step onto a football pitch and with good reason.

France Football this week released the 30 - man shortlist for this year's Ballon d'Or award, the first to be handed out since the organizers» breakaway from FIFA.

Now, I know you're all thinking, it's not exactly the Ballon d'Or and you would certainly be correct but the Bravo Award has been handed out to some extremely gifted young men and judging by the trophies many of them have gone on to accumulate it seems this particular Italian title really knows their football.

Playing for Paris St Germain, AC Milan, Chelsea and Manchester City, George Weah is the first and only African footballer to have won FIFA's world player of the year and Ballon D'Or award.

France Football, the organizers of the Ballon d'Or award, are hopeful that Barcelona midfielder, Andres Iniesta will win the prize this year.