Ballon d’Or 2024 LIVE – Rodri wins top award ahead of Vinicius Junior and Jude Bellingham; Aitana Bonmati claims double

Has been a memorable night for Spain on the 68th Ballon d’Or awards in Paris. Congratulations to Rodri and Aitana Bonmati for his or her historic wins this night. For the distinctive Manchester Metropolis midfielder Rodri, it has been sealed with a kiss.

“I averted all my life. I do not need individuals to comply with in my steps.”

“I would wish to inform you an anecdote. Once I was 17, I packed up my suitcases and I went to Villarreal with a dream to work within the Premier League. Sooner or later I referred to as my father crying telling him it was throughout, and that I had invested my life to get right here. I had the sensation that was it.

“My father mentioned we had come all the best way, let’s hold going. It’s one thing that modified my thoughts and now, right here I’m. I’m a traditional boy who by no means will get carried away with stereotypes. Onerous work is what issues.”

“Unimaginable evening for me tonight,” mentioned Rodri. “I’ve so many because of so many individuals. For France Soccer and UEFA, and for many who voted for me, who put their belief in me. It is extremely particular for me, and my household, for the values they’ve taught me. For serving to me develop into the person I’m. Who would have thought I would be right here? It is a victory for Spanish soccer.”

Ballon d’Or Feminin: Aitana Bonmati

Kopa Trophy: Lamine Yamal

Males’s Coach of the Yr: Carlo Ancelotti

Ladies’s Coach of the Yr: Emma Hayes

Yashin Trophy: Emiliano Martinez

Males’s Membership of the Yr: Actual Madrid

Ladies’s Membership of the Yr: Barcelona

Gerd Muller Trophy: Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappe

“When you find yourself rising and have extra expertise, you’ve confidence,” mentioned Bonmati. “It’s not concerning the trophies, it’s about having my teammates subsequent to me. I’m a humble individual. I am the identical individual I used to be 15 years in the past with my ft proper on the bottom. That is what makes me joyful.”

“Thanks to my membership Bayern Munich, workers, teammates, for serving to me rating all of the objectives I scored,” mentioned Kane after receiving the award from Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.

“It is an honour to take this award from a membership legend, thanks very a lot.”

“I feel he’s very mature in the best way he performs,” mentioned Gullit. “I feel he has an enormous future forward of him and can win many trophies.

“I noticed him within the Euros closing towards England. Historical past was in his fingers. We’d like younger gamers, we’d like gamers to have the expertise and present it. That is the factor we miss. We stay in an period of gamers taking one or two touches, however we have to see gamers dribbling please!”

“I am so proud to obtain this award,” says the younger Barcelona winger after receiving the trophy from Ruud Gullit. He is solely 17.

Manchester Metropolis supervisor Pep Guardiola has backed one in all his personal gamers to be the subsequent recipient of the celebrated Ballon d’Or award – midfielder Rodri. Guardiola insists that his compatriot is just “the most effective”, and believes that the previous Atletico Madrid man can succeed Lionel Messi because the world’s greatest males’s participant.

TNT Sports activities and Eurosport are working this devoted stay weblog all through the ceremony from Paris on Monday, October 28.

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The primary names within the countdown to the winner of the ladies’s Ballon d’Or have been revealed!

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It’s nonetheless a case of if Rodri wins, but when the Spain midfielder does triumph he can be the primary man from his nation to raise the trophy in over 60 years, based on this submit.

Straightforward does it for the Man Metropolis star, as he exits his transport by way of crutches.

Lamine Yamal, who’s the new favorite for the Kopa award, could be a future Ballon d’Or winner too.

Nominees for the Kopa Trophy (for the most effective participant below the age of 21 as of 31 July 2024):

Pau Cubarsí (Spain, Barcelona)
Alejandro Garnacho (Argentina, Manchester United)
Arda Güler (Türkiye, Actual Madrid)
Karim Konaté (Ivory Coast, Salzburg)
Kobbie Mainoo (England, Manchester United)
João Neves (Portugal, Benfica / Paris Saint-Germain)
Savinho (Brazil, Girona / Manchester Metropolis)
Mathys Tel (France, Bayern München)
Lamine Yamal (Spain, Barcelona)
Warren Zaïre-Emery (France, Paris Saint-Germain)

As per RMC Sport’s Fabrice Hawkins’ submit: “Vinicius Jr.’s entourage is now satisfied that he won’t be named Ballon d’Or. Everybody in Madrid has this sense.”

Issues are starting to boost. The Actual Madrid rumours are swirling and others stars are arriving in France.

A reminder of the 2024 Ballon d’Or working order…

16:50 GMT – Rating reveal commences counting down from No.30

17.50 GMT – Purple carpet: the large names start to reach

19.45 GMT – The Ceremony

A montage of the Spaniard’s objectives for Manchester Metropolis final season.

Rumours are rife that Actual Madrid might keep away from the ceremony with a suggestion their Brazilian ahead will NOT win the 2024 Ballon d’Or.

TNT Sports activities and Eurosport will run a devoted stay weblog all through the ceremony on Monday, October 28.

Joao Felix is the newest participant to again Actual Madrid winger Vinicius Junior to scoop the Ballon d’Or award on Monday.

The Brazilian is the favorite to take the crown for the primary time after starring for Los Blancos throughout a 2023/24 season that yielded a La Liga title and a fifteenth UEFA Champions League.

And requested by TNT Sports activities who he thought would win this 12 months’s Ballon d’Or, Felix was in little question.

The 2024 Ballon d’Or working order

16:50 GMT – Rating reveal commences counting down from No.30

17.50 GMT – Purple carpet: the large names start to reach

19.45 GMT – The Ceremony

A reminder of the 30 names within the working for tonight’s predominant award.

Neymar is satisfied his compatriot Vinicius Junior will win the 2024 Ballon d’Or this night.

Take a look at what the previous Barcelona and PSG star needed to say concerning the Actual Madrid ace within the video beneath.

A pleasant montage of some huge names to have each graced the Video games and lifted arguably soccer’s greatest particular person prize.

It is not Ballon d’Or-related however worthy of observe – The Purple Devils have at present sacked supervisor Erik ten Hag.

Full particulars by way of our story beneath.

TNT Sports activities and Eurosport will run a devoted stay weblog all through the ceremony on Monday, October 28.

The Chicago Purple Stars ahead was already a star in her house nation however will go down in USWNT historical past following her second half strike for Emma Hayes’ aspect.

Swanson scored 4 objectives all through the match, along with her achievements on the Video games making her a entrance runner to develop into the primary American to win the Ballon d’Or Feminin since Megan Rapinoe in 2019.

Graham Hansen’s Norway team-mate Ada Hegerberg has gone by hell and again to achieve the highest of the sport once more, having suffered an ACL harm in 2020, adopted by a stress fracture. 

However the winner of the inaugural Ballon d’Or Feminin in 2018 has gained a lot extra admirers for her fightback, and she or he is flying once more now.

Sticking with Barcelona, Caroline Graham Hansen may very well be Bonmati’s best challenger for the Ballon d’Or award.

The Norway worldwide led the Liga F charts final season, scoring 21 objectives and establishing one other 19, whereas she additionally went into the worldwide break because the joint chief for this season on assists, with 4.

Graham Hansen is an integral a part of the Barca set-up and was named within the UEFA’s greatest XI for the Ladies’s Champions League final season.

The Barcelona playmaker has as soon as once more had an excellent 12 months since choosing up her first Ballon d’Or Feminin award in 2023.

The 2023 winner Aitana Bonmati is among the many favourites, whereas her Barcelona team-mates Caroline Graham Hansen and Alexia Putellas might characteristic.

The likes of Ada Hegerberg, Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Olympic champion Mallory Swanson may even fancy their probabilities.

Gerardo Martino has claimed Lionel Messi continues to be the world’s greatest participant, regardless of not being nominated for this 12 months’s Ballon d’Or.

The Argentine coach – presently at Inter Miami – is subsequently tipping Vinicius Junior to win this 12 months’s award, with the winner because of be introduced at Monday’s ceremony in Paris.

The Actual Madrid ahead will battle it out with the likes of Jude Bellingham and Rodri for the prize.

Actual Madrid are not any strangers to trophies, given they’ve lifted a report 15 UEFA Champions Leagues, in addition to 36 La Liga titles and a mess of different trophies.

The record of star gamers who’ve helped Los Blancos develop into the drive they’re throughout the globe is a prolonged one, and it’s no shock that particular person honours have adopted.

No fewer than eight gamers have gained the Ballon d’Or whereas on the Bernabeu.

Might Vinicius Junior or Jude Bellingham be No.9?

TNT Sports activities and Eurosport will run a devoted stay weblog all through the ceremony on Monday, October 28.

Since 2008 we have solely seen 4 names raise the trophy with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo turning it right into a two-way tussle for 10 years earlier than Luka Modric ended their duopoly in 2018.

Messi leads the best way with an unimaginable eight Ballon d’or triumphs total, with Ronaldo sitting in second with 5.

Take a look at our montage of all the nice names to have been topped the most effective from Stanley Matthews in 1956 all over to final 12 months’s winner, Messi.

It was Vinicius’ twenty fourth purpose in 39 video games within the 2023/24 season, and it landed the Brazilian his second Champions League winners’ medal after Madrid’s 2022 success.

Final 12 months was a glittering one for Jude Bellingham as he donned the well-known white of Madrid for the primary time.

He rapidly grew to become a followers’ favorite within the Spanish capital, enjoying in a much more superior place to profit from his goalscoring menace. He notched 23 objectives in 42 video games for his new aspect after a big-money transfer from Borussia Dortmund.

Recent off a Premier League title and European Championship double, the Manchester Metropolis defensive midfielder is the Premier League’s strongest contender for the world’s greatest particular person prize.

He was the lynchpin for Metropolis’s fourth league title in a row, and was the heartbeat of Spain’s midfield of their Euro 2024-winning marketing campaign – profitable the Participant of the Match award – regardless of going off injured within the closing towards England.

The Bookies have Actual Madrid’s Vinicius Junior because the clear favorite to land the boys’s trophy later with membership teammate Jude Bellingham and Man Metropolis’s Rodri his closest rivals.

Liverpool and England defender Trent Alexander-Arnold has hinted that he may very well be prepared for a brand new problem after admitting he wish to develop into the primary full-back to ever win the Ballon d’Or.

The 26-year-old is within the closing 12 months of his contract at Liverpool and has been linked with a transfer to Actual Madrid subsequent summer time.

“I simply need that legacy of being most likely the best right-back,” he mentioned.

TNT Sports activities and Eurosport will run a devoted stay weblog all through the ceremony on Monday, October 28.

Manchester Metropolis supervisor Pep Guardiola has backed one in all his personal gamers to be the subsequent recipient of the celebrated Ballon d’Or award – midfielder Rodri.

Guardiola insists that his compatriot is just “the most effective”, and believes that the previous Atletico Madrid man can succeed Lionel Messi because the world’s greatest males’s participant.

“Rodri. If I might resolve, I might say that,” He instructed us in an unique chat lately. “I perceive that there are different gamers that may win it. I feel the opposite approach is being nominated and being there may be already good.”

Yashin Trophy (for the most effective goalkeeper)

Diogo Costa (Portugal, Porto)
Gianluigi Donnarumma (Italy, Paris Saint-Germain)
Gregor Kobel (Switzerland, Borussia Dortmund)
Andriy Lunin (Ukraine, Actual Madrid)
Mike Maignan (France, Milan)
Giorgi Mamardashvili (Georgia, Valencia)
Emiliano Martínez (Argentina, Aston Villa)
Unai Simón (Spain, Athletic Membership)
Yann Sommer (Switzerland, Inter)
Ronwen Williams (South Africa, Mamelodi Sundowns)

Kopa Trophy (for the most effective participant below the age of 21 as of 31 July 2024)

Pau Cubarsí (Spain, Barcelona)
Alejandro Garnacho (Argentina, Manchester United)
Arda Güler (Türkiye, Actual Madrid)
Karim Konaté (Ivory Coast, Salzburg)
Kobbie Mainoo (England, Manchester United)
João Neves (Portugal, Benfica / Paris Saint-Germain)
Savinho (Brazil, Girona / Manchester Metropolis)
Mathys Tel (France, Bayern München)
Lamine Yamal (Spain, Barcelona)
Warren Zaïre-Emery (France, Paris Saint-Germain)

Males’s Coach of the Yr Trophy (greatest coach of a males’s membership or nationwide group)

Xabi Alonso (Spain, Bayer Leverkusen)
Carlo Ancelotti (Italy, Actual Madrid)
Luis de la Fuente (Spain, Spain)
Gian Piero Gasperini (Italy, Atalanta)
Pep Guardiola (Spain, Manchester Metropolis)
Lionel Scaloni (Argentina, Argentina)

Ladies’s Coach of the Yr Trophy (greatest coach of a girls’s membership or nationwide group) 
Sonia Bompastor (France, Lyon / Chelsea)
Arthur Elias (Brazil, Corinthians / Brazil)
Jonatan Giráldez (Spain, Barcelona / Washington Spirit)
Emma Hayes (England, Chelsea / USA)
Filipa Patão (Portugal, Benfica)
Sarina Wiegman (Netherlands, England)

Males’s Membership of the Yr Trophy

Borussia Dortmund (Germany)
Girona (Spain)
Bayer Leverkusen (Germany)
Manchester Metropolis (England)
Actual Madrid (Spain)

Ladies’s Membership of the Yr Trophy
Barcelona (Spain)
Chelsea (England)
Lyon (France)
NJ/NY Gotham (USA)
Paris Saint-Germain (France)

Gerd Müller Trophy (prime scorer in earlier season)

Sócrates Award (humanitarian work)

• Jude Bellingham (Actual Madrid and England)
• Phil Foden (Manchester Metropolis and England)
• Ruben Dias (Manchester Metropolis and Portugal)
• Federico Valverde (Actual Madrid and Uruguay)
• Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa and Argentina)
• Erling Haaland (Manchester Metropolis and Norway)
• Nicolas Williams (Athletic Bilbao and Spain)
• Granit Xhaka (Bayer Leverkusen and Switzerland)
• Artem Dovbik (Roma and Ukraine)
• Toni Kroos (Actual Madrid and Germany)
• Vinicius Junior (Actual Madrid and Brazil)
• Martin Odegaard (Arsenal and Norway)
• Dani Olmo (Barcelona and Spain)
• Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen and Germany)
• Mats Hummels (Roma and Germany)
• Rodri (Manchester Metropolis and Spain)
• Declan Rice (Arsenal and England)
• Harry Kane (Bayern Munich and England)
• Cole Palmer (Chelsea and England)
• Vitinha (Paris Saint-Germain and Portugal)
• Dani Carvajal (Actual Madrid and Spain)
• William Saliba (Arsenal and France)
• Lamine Yamal (Barcelona and Spain)
• Bukayo Saka (Arsenal and England)
• Hakan Calhanoglu (Inter Milan and Turkey)
• Antonio Rudiger (Actual Madrid and Germany)
• Kylian Mbappe (Actual Madrid and France)
• Lautaro Martinez (Inter Milan and Argentina)
• Ademola Lookman (Atalanta and Nigeria)
• Alejandro Grimaldo (Bayer Leverkusen and Spain)
• Aitana Bonmati (Barcelona and Spain)
• Ada Hegerberg (Lyon and Norway)
• Lauren Hemp (Manchester Metropolis and England)
• Trinity Rodman (Washington Spirit and USA)
• Barbra Banda (Shanghai RCB/Orlando Delight and Zambia)
• Tarciane (Houston Sprint and Brazil)
• Manuela Giugliano (Roma and Italy)
• Mallory Swanson (Chicago Purple Stars and USA)
• Glodis Viggosdottir (Bayern Munich and Iceland)
• Mariona Caldentey (Barca/Arsenal and Spain)
• Lauren James (Chelsea and England)
• Patricia Guijarro (Barcelona and Spain)
• Lea Schuller (Bayern Munich and Germany)
• Gabi Portilho (Corinthians and Brazil)
• Tabitha Chawinga (Paris Saint-Germain/Lyon and Malawi)
• Caroline Graham Hansen (Barcelona and Norway)
• Lindsey Horan (Lyon and USA)
• Lucy Bronze (Barcelona/Chelsea and England)
• Sjoeke Nusken (Chelsea and Germany)

Welcome to our stay weblog on the morning of the Ballon d’Or 2024 ceremony as we construct as much as essentially the most prestigious particular person awards in soccer with most of the greatest names within the sport set to be current.