Manchester Metropolis and Spain midfielder Rodri has gained the boys’s Ballon d’Or – turning into the primary participant within the Premier League membership’s historical past to say the award for the most effective footballer of the 12 months.
The 28-year-old misplaced only one recreation for the Premier League champions and the European champion Spanish through the voting interval.
The ladies’s Ballon d’Or was claimed by Rodri’s compatriot Aitana Bonmati, considered one of 4 winners from Barcelona as a number of gongs had been handed out.
“I’d wish to let you know an anecdote the story that led me right here,” stated an emotional Rodri, who’s sidelined for the remainder of this season with an ACL harm.
“Once I was 17-year-old I packed up my suitcases and I went to Villarreal with a dream to work within the Premier League, and at some point I referred to as my father crying telling him it was throughout and that I had invested my life to get right here and I had the sensation that, this was it.
“My father stated we had come all the way in which right here, let’s maintain going and that is one thing that modified my mindset and now, right here I’m. I’m a traditional boy who by no means will get carried away with stereotypes. Arduous work is what issues.”
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Actual Madrid gained the award for membership of the 12 months and their supervisor Carlo Ancelotti was the winner of the boys’s coach of the 12 months award, however there was no-one from the membership current to obtain the prizes.
It was reported that Actual Madrid had been boycotting the ceremony after studying their ahead Vinicius Jr wouldn’t win the Ballon d’Or.
Stories claimed Actual president Florentino Perez was “livid” and that “the Ballon d’Or now not exists for us”.
Vinicius Jr positioned second, with Jude Bellingham third and Dani Carvajal fourth.
The Ballon d’Or recognises the most effective footballer of the 12 months and is voted for by a jury of journalists from every of the highest 100 nations within the FIFA males’s world rankings.
It was the primary time since 2003 that neither eight-time winner Lionel Messi, 37, or five-time winner Cristiano Ronaldo, 39, have appeared on the checklist of nominees.
Ballon d’Or 2024 award winners
Ballon d’Or: Rodri
Ballon d’Or Feminin: Aitana Bonmati
Kopa Trophy: Lamine Yamal
Males’s Coach of the 12 months: Carlo Ancelotti
Girls’s Coach of the 12 months: Emma Hayes
Yashin Trophy: Emiliano Martinez
Males’s Membership of the 12 months: Actual Madrid
Girls’s Membership of the 12 months: Barcelona
Gerd Muller Trophy: Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappe
