Pleasure for the 2024 Ballon d’Or ceremony continues to construct with the nominees for a number of awards now revealed.
With 2023 victor Lionel Messi and five-time winner Cristiano Ronaldo omitted from the Ballon d’Or shortlist, a recent face is ready to scoop the award in 2024. There is also new winners of the Kopa Trophy and Yashin Trophy, awarded to one of the best younger participant and goalkeeper respectively.
After all, there’s additionally the Ballon d’Or Feminin to be handed out on the upcoming ceremony. Aitana Bonmati claimed the prize for the primary time final 12 months and can face competitors from her Barcelona teammates as she appears for back-to-back triumphs.
Right here is every part you could know concerning the 2024 Ballon d’Or ceremony.
The 2024 Ballon d’Or is the 68th version, with the primary recipient of the award being England’s Stanley Matthews all the way in which again in 1956. This 12 months’s ceremony will happen on Monday 28 October on the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris – the identical venue that has hosted the award since 2019.
Timings have been confirmed by UEFA and France Soccer, who’re co-hosts for October’s occasion, with the ceremony kicking off at 19:00 GMT.
These taken with watching the 2024 Ballon d’Or ceremony are in luck, with the occasion streamed without cost on L’Equipe’s YouTube channel.
The 30-man shortlist for the 2024 Ballon d’Or has now been launched, with some unsurprising names up for the accolade. Actual Madrid and Manchester Metropolis boast the gamers with the best probability of successful this 12 months’s award.
Vinicius Junior is likely one of the huge favourites, with the Brazilian celebrity having shone for Actual Madrid final time period. He scored within the Champions League remaining victory over Borussia Dortmund and produced 24 objectives and 11 assists in all competitions for the La Liga champions.
His teammate Jude Bellingham can also be knocking on the door after an distinctive debut season with Actual Madrid. He received the membership’s and La Liga’s Participant of the Season award and was instrumental in an underwhelming England facet reaching the ultimate of Euro 2024 over the summer season.
Two Spanish Euro 2024 winners are additionally within the combine. A kind of is Madrid’s Dani Carvajal, with the right-back additionally scoring in final season’s Champions League remaining at Wembley Stadium. The opposite is Rodri, who was instrumental in Manchester Metropolis securing one other Premier League title, whereas additionally successful Euro 2024’s Participant of the Match.
The 30-woman shortlist for the Ballon d’Or Feminin has additionally been revealed, with 2023 champion Bonmati the robust favorite to say a second successive award. The Barcelona midfielder scored within the Champions League remaining because the Catalan giants beat Lyon. She additionally netted 18 different objectives as Barca did the treble, whereas being named the MVP for the UEFA Nations League as Spain got here out victorious.
Bonmati’s Barca teammates are additionally among the many nominees. The truth is, Barca boast eight nominees who presently play for them or donned their jersey throughout the 2023/24 season. Amongst them, Salma Paralluelo, Caroline Graham Hansen and Mariona Caldentey (now of Arsenal) are more likely to obtain vital votes.
There are simply ten nominees for the Kopa Trophy, named after 1958 Ballon d’Or winner Raymond Kopa and received by one of the best males’s participant beneath the age of 21.
From the Premier League, Man Metropolis summer season signing Savinho and Manchester United duo Alejandro Garnacho and Kobbie Mainoo have an opportunity of successful. RB Salzburg’s Karim Konate is the one participant presently outdoors of the highest 5 European leagues to be nominated, though Joao Neves, now of Paris Saint-Germain, did characteristic for Benfica final time period.
Nonetheless, it feels inevitable Barcelona wonderkid and Euro 2024 star Lamine Yamal will win the award. He loved an immense breakout season with La Blaugrana and received the Younger Participant of the Match on the Euros, in addition to scoring the Aim of the Match for champions Spain.
The Yashin Trophy has solely been round since 2019 and, with 2020’s ceremony cancelled, has solely seen 4 earlier winners. They’re Alisson, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Thibaut Courtois and, most just lately, Emiliano Martinez.
The Argentine is nominated for the prize once more however faces stiff competitors to retain his crown. Donnarumma is the one previous champion who can steal it from him, whereas the likes of Mike Maignan, Gregor Kobel and new Liverpool recruit Giorgi Mamardashvili have additionally been named among the many nominees.
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