No Messi or Ronaldo in Ballon d’Or nomination record for the primary time since 2003 | – Occasions of India

No Messi or Ronaldo in Ballon d’Or nomination record for the primary time since 2003 | – Occasions of India

The nominees for the boys’s Ballon d’Or award have been unveiled on Wednesday, marking a major shift as neither Cristiano Ronaldo nor Lionel Messi made the reduce for the primary time since 2003. Among the many 30 gamers nominated is England’s rising star, Jude Bellingham.
Ronaldo, a five-time winner from Portugal, was additionally absent from final 12 months’s nominations. In the meantime, Messi, who holds the document with eight Ballon d’Or wins and has been nominated 16 instances, was excluded regardless of Argentina‘s triumph within the Copa America this 12 months.
Spain, the victorious crew at Euro 2024, boasts six nominated gamers. The record contains the prodigious 17-year-old Barcelona winger Lamine Yamal, alongside Nico Williams, Alejandro Grimaldo, Dani Olmo, Rodri and Dani Carvajal, the latter of whom additionally clinched the Champions League title with Actual Madrid.
Actual Madrid boasts a powerful seven nominees for the celebrated Ballon d’Or award, with Kylian Mbappe, their current signing from Paris St Germain, main the cost. Different notable nominees from the Spanish giants embody Bellingham and Brazil’s Vinicius Junior.
England, who completed as runners-up to Spain within the Euro 2024 event, have six gamers nominated in whole. Other than Bellingham, the record contains prolific striker Harry Kane, rising stars Bukayo Saka and Cole Palmer, in addition to midfielders Declan Rice and Phil Foden.
Within the ladies’s class, reigning Champions League winners Barcelona dominate with six nominees. Amongst them are final 12 months’s winner Aitana Bonmati and two-time recipient Alexia Putellas, showcasing the membership’s distinctive expertise in ladies’s soccer.
The extremely anticipated 2024 Ballon d’Or Awards ceremony, which goals to acknowledge and rejoice the world’s greatest footballers, is about to happen on October 28 within the glamorous metropolis of Paris.