Award for association football players
The FIFA Ballon d’Or ( “ Golden Ball ” ) was an annual association football award presented to the global ‘s best men ‘s player from 2010 to 2015. Awarded jointly by FIFA and France Football, the prize was a amalgamation of the FIFA World Player of the Year prize and the Ballon d’Or, the two most esteemed individual honours in world football. Unlike the Ballon d’Or awarded by France Football, the FIFA Ballon d’Or, was not awarded based on votes from international journalists, but votes from national team coaches and captains, who selected the players they deemed to have performed the best in the previous calendar class. The six editions of the FIFA Ballon d’Or were dominated by Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, as part of their ongoing competition. Messi, who played for Barcelona, won the inaugural Ballon d’Or in 2010 and went on to win three in a rowing, after his wins in 2011 and 2012. Ronaldo, who played for Real Madrid, won consecutive awards in the future two years. The final examination FIFA Ballon d’Or was presented to Messi in 2015. Its awarding bodies subsequently ended their partnership ; for 2016, France Football reintroduced the previous format of the Ballon d’Or, while FIFA created The Best FIFA Men ‘s Player award.

history [edit ]

FIFA President Sepp Blatter holds up the agreement creating the FIFA Ballon d’Or in Johannesburg in July 2010. historically, the leading individual awards in association football were the Ballon d’Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year prize. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The master Ballon d’Or, besides known as the European Footballer of the Year prize, had been awarded by the french issue France Football since 1956. The FIFA World Player of the Year award was presented by FIFA, the fun ‘s governing body, from 1991. [ 3 ] From 2005, the winners of the Ballon d’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year prize were identical each year. Following the presentation of a global Ballon d’Or format in 2007, France Football and FIFA opted to merge the two awards. The creation of the FIFA Ballon d’Or was subsequently announced during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. [ 3 ] The inaugural award was presented that like class to the Argentine Lionel Messi. [ 4 ] After a six-year partnership, France Football and FIFA terminated the joint award. Lionel Messi had received the final FIFA Ballon d’Or. [ 5 ] For historical purposes, both awarding bodies regard the six editions of the FIFA Ballon d’Or as a lengthiness of their respective awards. [ 6 ] [ 7 ]

Voting [edit ]

The winners of the FIFA Ballon d’Or were chosen by international journalists and the coaches and captains of the home teams under FIFA ‘s legal power. [ 3 ] In a system based on positional vote, each voter was allotted three votes, deserving five points, three points and one point, and the three finalists were ordered based on total act of points. Voters were provided with a short list of 23 players from which they could select the three players they deemed to have performed the best in the former calendar year. [ 8 ]

Winners [edit ]

Wins by player [edit ]

Wins by area [edit ]

# Country Winner Runner-up Third place
1  Argentina 2011, 2012, 2015) 4 ( 2010 2 (2013, 2014) 0
2  Portugal 2 (2013, 2014) 2012, 2015) 3 ( 2011 0
3  Spain 0 1 (2010) 2011, 2012) 3 ( 2010

4  France 0 0 1 (2013)
 Germany 0 0 1 (2014)
 Brazil 0 0 1 (2015)

Wins by club [edit ]

FIFA Ballon d’Or Prix d’Honneur [edit ]

In 2013, brazilian advancing Pelé was given an honorary Ballon d’Or, having won three FIFA World Cups with Brazil but never an individual prize from FIFA, as during his playing career alone Europe-based players were eligible to win the original Ballon d’Or. [ 11 ]

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