The Colombian forward Mayra Ramirez, who is concentrated with the Colombia National Team in Brazil, for the second friendly match against Canarinha, scheduled for this Tuesday, at 5:00 in the afternoon, is part of the nominees for the Ballon d’Or 2024.
Mayra, who won the Women’s Super League with Chelsea and Champions League semi-finalist. Furthermore, at the time she was classified as the most valuable signing in the English League, since Chelsea paid 500,000 euros, a figure that had not been seen in women’s football, to have the Colombian who arrived from Spanish football.
Ramírez has had outstanding performances with the Colombian National Team in the World older, the America’s Cup and the Paris Olympic Gamesand for this reason it is part of the 30 selected for el Ballon d’Or.
Mayra thus joins the other four Colombians who have been nominated for the Ballon d’Or and is the second woman, since the first was Linda Caicedo, nominated in 2023, who finished in ninth place, and was also exalted as the Sub 2 Athlete.
But Colombia’s history in this nomination began in 2012 with the election of Radamel Falcao García among the finalists for the Ballon d’Or.
That year, the forward of Atlético de Madrid He was in the elite of world football for his good performance in the Europa League, and coaches like Pep Guardiola They classified him as the best in the world.
In 2012 Falcao was among the finalists and occupied the fifth place, then he was nominated on two more occasions, in 2013 occupying the eleventh place and finally in 2017 when he occupied the 24th place.
Then, the second Colombian nominated was James Rodriguez, who has had two nominations, the first in 2014 in which he finished in eighth place and the following year he finished in 19th place.
The third nominee was Luis Diaz, who in 2022, was ranked 19th, after his arrival and good performance of the Colombian with Liverpool.
Oafter outstanding nominations
Before the Ballon d’Or existed, Colombian soccer had outstanding players such as Faustino Asprilla and Óscar Córdoba, who were exalted internationally.
Asprilla, in his first year with Parma (1993) came in sixth place in the Fifa World Player that Roberto Baggio won.
Then, he repeated the nomination in 1996, when he was playing for Newcastle, he was ranked 53rd in the Fifa award and the following year he was ranked 19th.
Goalkeeper Óscar Córdoba was also recognized by Fifa as one of the best in the world in 2001, after winning the Copa Libertadores and lifting the Copa América with the Colombian National Team, a tournament in which he had an undefeated goal.
