Rodri beat Vinicius Junior by a small margin in the fight for the award.
The detailed results of the voting for the winner of the "Ballon d'Or 2024" have been announced.
According to the French publication L'Equipe, the winner of the award, Spanish midfielder of Manchester City Rodrifrom his main competitor in the fight for the award, Brazilian striker of Real Madrid Vinicius Junior was 41 points. This is the smallest gap in the last three years.
The smallest gap between first and second places was in the voting for the “Golden Ball-2021”, when Lionel Messi was 33 points ahead of Robert Lewandowski.
It is worth noting that the Ukrainian forward of “Roma” Artem Dovbyk took 29th placein the voting for the winner of the “Golden Ball”, although he did not receive a single point from the respondents.
“Golden Ball 2024”: voting results (top 10)
1. Rodri (Spain, “Manchester City”) – 1170 points
2. Vinicius Junior (Brazil, “Real”) – 1129
3. Jude Bellingham (England, “Real”) – 917
4. Dani Carvajal (Spain, “Real”) – 550
5. Erling Haaland (Norway, “Manchester City”) – 432
6. Kylian Mbappe (France, PSG/”Real”) – 420
7. Lautaro Martinez (Argentina, Inter) – 402
8. Lamin Yamal (Spain, Barcelona) – 383
9. Toni Kroos (Germany, Real Madrid/retired) – 291
10. Harry Kane (England, Bayern Munich) – 201
Rodri won the Ballon d'Or for the first time in his career. The record holder for the number of Golden Balls won remains Inter Miami and Argentina national team forward Lionel Messi, who has received this prize eight times (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2023).
The closest pursuer of the Argentine is Al-Nassr and Portugal national team forward Cristiano Ronaldo, who was recognized as the best footballer in the world five times (2008, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017).
Earlier it was reported that the winners of the 2024 Golden Ball football award in all nominations have been determined.
Recall that Real Madrid boycotted the Ballon d'Or ceremony after learning that Vinicius Junior would not receive the top prize. Not a single representative of the Madrid club arrived in Paris for the ceremony.
