Ballon d’Or: the ceremony LIVE! – Soccer

Twenty-four years after Zinedine Zidane, Karim Benzema should be the fifth French player to win the Ballon d’Or. Maxifoot invites you to follow the ceremony which should crown the Real Madrid striker.

The day of glory has arrived for Karim Benzema. On this October 17, the Real Madrid striker will definitely switch into legend by winning his first Ballon d’Or. But before touching this prestigious trophy with both hands, the French striker will still have to wait with a ceremony organized by France Football Paris. Maxifoot invites you to follow his live commentary from this historic evening.

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18h33 : for his first nomination, Sbastien Haller is 13th. A very good place for the Borussia Dortmund striker, author of a great Champions League campaign in 2021-2022.

6:30 p.m.: Rafael Leao and Fabinho are tied for 14th place. The Portuguese is rewarded for his tremendous season with AC Milan, the Brazilian for his influence with Liverpool.

18h20 : Heung-min Son is also still in the running. The co-top scorer in the last Premier League will finish, no matter what, the highest place for an Asian player. Also historic.

18h10 : for now, no african player on the list has been ranked. Sadio Man, Mohamed Salah, RIyad Mahrez and Sbastien Haller are therefore in the TOP 15. History.

18h05 : Ronaldo, double winner (1997, 2002), and Luis Figo, winner in 2000, are part of the Real Madrid delegation for the announced coronation of Karim Benzema.

6:00 p.m.: we know the players positioned from 16th to 30th place

16. Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool / Pays-Bas)
17. Dusan Vlahovic (Fiorentina then Juventus / Serbia)
-. Luis Diaz (Porto then Liverpool / Colombia)
-. Casemiro (Real Madrid puis Manchester United / Brsil)
20. Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United / Portugal)
21. Harry Kane (Tottenham / Angleterre)
22. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City / Portugal)
-. Phil Foden (Manchester City / England)
-. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool / Angleterre)
25. Antonio Rediger (Chelsea then Real Madrid / Germany)
-. Darwin Nuez (Benfica then Liverpool / Uruguay)
-. Christopher Nkunku (Leipzig / France)
-. Mike Maignan (AC Milan / France)
-. Joshua Kimmich (Bavaria / Germany)
-. Joao Cancelo (Manchester City / Portugal)

17h55 : as a reminder, Lionel Messi, defending champion, is not affected by this election. This is the first time in his career that this has happened for the Argentine striker, present between 2005 and 2021, i.e. 15 consecutive appointments.

17h50 : Compared to previous editions, there are four changes to the rules:

– the Ballon d’Or is now awarded at the end of the season, and no longer in December or January. Players will therefore no longer be judged over a year – and therefore over two half-seasons – but over an entire season to a clarification of performance accounting and valuing .

– the determining elements are now in order: the individual performances and the decisiveness of the player, the collective performances and the prize list accumulated during the season, the player’s class and his sense of fair play. On the other hand, the criterion player’s career disappears, allowing consider the race for the Ballon d’Or as an open competition, and not as a hunting ground .

– a jury of true connoisseurs Before designating the winner, it will already be necessary to establish a coherent list. To draw up the lists of nominees (30 for men, 20 for women), the journalists of France Football and L’Equipe will now be supported by the BO ambassador Didier Drogba and by the voter who has shown himself to be the most insightful. in the previous edition

– the jury, which has grown from 170,100 journalists, all from the top 100 countries in the FIFA rankings. The goal is to circumscribe the jury a “lite”, real connoisseurs thus excluding the smallest countries which do not have access to the images of all the competitions.

17h45: while he was announced absent, Kylian Mbapp will be present for this ceremony. As a reminder, the French striker finished 7th in 2017, 4th in 2018, 6th in 2019 and 9th in 2021. A priori, he should be in the TOP 10, but what place? Reply in about two hours.

17h40: Karim Benzema has created so much competition over the past season that we have forgotten the players potentially present in the TOP 5. According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, Robert Lewandowski, Vinicius Jr, Sadio Man and Mohamed Salah, in disorder, will all escort the French striker. Only the Brazilian has never reached the TOP 10 among these players.

5:35 p.m.: has the day of glory arrived for Karim Benzema? At first, yes. It is even certain. Barring a completely improbable reversal of the situation, the Real Madrid striker will be crowned the best player in the world in 2022. Better still, the French striker could finish on the top step of the podium by putting a world of difference on his runner-up.

5:30 p.m.: everyone welcome to the Maxifoot website to follow the Ballon d’Or ceremony.

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