According to the joint organization France Football magazine and UEFA, midfielder Vitinha (24 years old) ranked 27th, ahead of Mats Hummels and Artem Dovbeck, both from Roma, in 29th place, and former Benfica player Alejandro Grimaldo (Bayer Leverkusen) in 28th place.
Ruben Dias (27 years old) ranked 23rd, ahead of Declan Rice (Arsenal) (26), Cole Palmer (Chelsea) (25), and William Saliba (Arsenal) (24), while Antonio Rudiger (Real Madrid) ranked 22nd ( Arsenal) is in 21st place and Hakan Calhanoglu (Inter Milan) is in 20th place.
Manchester City midfielder Rodri has won the Ballon d'Or for the first time, becoming the third Spanish footballer to win the trophy in its almost 70-year history.
Rodri is the men's Ballon d'Or of 2024! #ballondor @Man City @UEFA Champions League pic.twitter.com/heWvSQsOxn-
Ballon d'Or (@ballondor) October 28, 2024
The 28-year-old Spain international has been named Player of the Year for the 2023/24 season. Rodri, who is recovering from a serious knee injury he suffered in September, won the Euro 2024 Championship with Spain in July and was named the tournament's best player, and also helped Manchester City win an unprecedented fourth title in England, the European Super Cup, in August. 2023, and the Club World Cup, in December of the same year.
It has been 64 years since a Spanish footballer won the Ballon d'Or, the last being Luis Suarez in 1960, after Alfredo Di Stéfano claimed the award in 1957 and 1959.
The Ballon d'Or award for the best female soccer player for the second year in a row was won by Spain's Aitana Bonmatti, ahead of two of her teammates in the Barcelona team on the podium, namely Norwegian Caroline Graham II and her compatriot Salma Baraluelo. , third.
