The Chelsea midfielder duo has cracked an 8years record set by the Barcelona midfield duo Xavi and Andress Iniesta by being the first midfielders from the same club to have been named in the top five for the Men’s Ballon d’Or. The first duo to achieve this was Xavi Hernandez, current Barcelona head coach (3rd), and Andrés Iniesta (4th) in ...
The Ballon d’Or award was created in 1956 by a French journalist as an accolade to celebrate individual brilliance in the team game and is generally regarded as the most prestigious within the game. Blackpool’s Stanley Matthews was the winner of the first award with Leo Messi the current holder with the Argentine scooping the prize in 2019 with the ...