The Ballon d'Or, the most prestigious individual prize in football, is awarded annually by France Football magazine to the ...

The Ballon d'Or is the most important individual award in football. This video looks back at the winners of the Ballon d'Or ...

This year of all years it promises to be all the more enjoyable: there is no obvious lock for the prize as there was in most ...

Franz Beckenbauer, who died aged 78 at the start ... Germany remembered a pioneer on and off the pitch. The two-time Ballon d'Or winner won titles in three countries as a manager and player ...

Barcelona midfielder Bonmati won the Ballon d’Or Feminin for a second consecutive ... the glitz and glamour as the late, great, Franz Beckenbauer is honored by his family and former team-mate ...

Germain’s dominant 5-0 win over Inter Milan in the UEFA Champions League final, the 2024-25 European football season is ...

Ballon d'Or on 5:14 p.m. ET: And the winner is ... 4:15 p.m. ET: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is joined by Beckenbauer's wife Heidi and son Joel on stage to celebrate Der Kaiser's life.

We will miss him." Aside from his achievements with the national team, Beckenbauer was a four-time German Male Footballer of the Year and a two-time Ballon d’Or winner. He scored 60 goals in 427 ...

Michel Platini, Johan Cruyff, and Marco van Basten each won three Ballon d'Or awards, while Franz Beckenbauer, Ronaldo 'O Fenomeno', Alfredo Di Stefano, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, and Kevin Keegan ...

The Ballon d’Or Feminin has been a little more geographically ... while the other multiple champs are Franz Beckenbauer, Alfredo Di Stefano, Kevin Keegan, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Ronaldo ...

Soccer icon Franz Beckenbauer, widely considered to be one of the greatest players in the history of the game, has died aged 78, according to the German football federation (DFB). The DFB called ...

The Ballon d’Or has not been kind to defenders in its history. Since its inception in 1956, only three defenders have won it: Franz Beckenbauer, Matthias Sammer and Fabio Cannavaro. No full-back has ...