Everything we know about the Ballon d’Or 2024: Venue, date, nominees and more

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The Ballon d’Or is almost upon us. Football is a team sport, but once a year the great and the good get to throw on their glad rags and make it all about themselves for an evening.

Since 1956, when Englandā€™s very own Stanley Matthews picked up the inaugural award ā€“ while turning out for Blackpool, obviously ā€“ the football world has gathered annually to celebrate the best player for that year. The trophy has been caught in a stranglehold between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi for 15 years, with only Real Madrid duo Luka Modric and Karim Benzema able to get in there and split it up.Ā 

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