Magazine revealed France Football About the list of players nominated to win the 2024 Golden Ball Award for the best football player in the world, in the presence of the most prominent stars of the round, in order to succeed the Argentine star Lionel Messi -Last edition title holder- and record holder for winning the award 8 times.
Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo were absent from the list of players nominated to win the Golden Ball for the first time since 2003, and this seems to be explained by their advanced age and their exit from the five European leagues, as the Portuguese plays for Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia, while the Argentine wears the colors of Inter Miami in the United States.
The award ceremony will be held in the French capital, Paris, specifically at the Chatelet Theatre on October 28, where other awards will be presented, such as Best Goalkeeper, Best Coach, Best Rising Player, and Best Goal, in addition to other honors.
Ronaldo and Messi are not on the list of candidates for the first time since 2003
It is expected that international stars in the world of football will attend the 2024 Golden Ball ceremony, which is held in Paris every year, and the awards were dominated by the duo Messi andCristiano Ronaldo Over the past years, the next edition will be number 68.
Candidates for the 2024 Ballon d’Or
The competition to win the 2024 Ballon d’Or will be intense among 30 candidates, before the list is reduced later, as some names that have been used to reserving their places in the past few years have attended to win the award that Messi won in the last edition, while other names have registered their presence for the first time.
The list included: Jude Bellingham Ruben Dias, Phil Foden, Federico Valverde, Emiliano Martinez, Erling Haaland, Nico Williams, Granit Xhaka, Artem Dovbyk, Toni Kroos, Vinicius Junior, Dani Olmo, Florian Wirtz, Martin Odegaard and Mats Hummels.
The list of nominees for the 2024 Ballon d’Or also includes Rodri, Harry Kane, Declan Rice, Vitinha, Cole Palmer, Lamine Yamal, Bukayo Saka, Hakan Calhanoglu, William Saliba, Dani Carvajal, Kylian Mbappe, Lautaro Martinez, Ademola Lookman, Anthony Rudiger and Alejandro Grimaldo.
Nominees for the Copa Award for Best Young Player
Ten young players have been nominated for the Copa Award for the best emerging player in 2024, and the list includes the most prominent stars shining with their clubs and national teams, as the winner will succeed the English star Jude Bellingham, who won the title last year.
The list included 10 names active in top European clubs, namely Lamine Yamal and Pau Coparsi (Barcelona), Alejandro Garnacho and Kobe Maino (Manchester United), Arda Guler (Real Madrid), Warren Zaire-Emery and Joao Neves (Paris Saint-Germain), Mathis Tel (Bayern Munich), Karim Konate (Salzburg), and Savinho (Manchester City).
Yashin Award Nominees for Best Goalkeeper
Ten goalkeepers will compete for the Yashin Award for the best in 2024, as the competition will be strong to succeed Argentine Emiliano Martinez, the goalkeeper of Aston Villa, who won the award during the last edition. The list witnessed the presence of an African artist active on the continent, namely the goalkeeper of South African Sundowns, Ronwen Williams.
Diogo Costa (Porto), Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint-Germain), Gregor Kobel (Dortmund), Andriy Lunin (Real Madrid), Mike Maignan (AC Milan), Giorgio Mamardashvili (Valencia), Emilian Martinez (Aston Villa), Unai Simon (Athletic Bilbao), Yann Sommer (Inter Milan) and Ronwen Williams (Sundowns) will compete.
Ancelotti tops list of nominees for best coach
Italian Carlo Ancelotti topped the list of candidates to win the Best Coach Award in 2024, in recognition of his leadership of Real Madrid to win the Spanish League and the Champions League double, as he will compete with 5 other coaches and the award will be distributed during the 2024 Golden Ball ceremony next October.
Ancelotti will be in strong competition with Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola, Bayer Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso, Spain coach Luis de la Fuente, Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini, and Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni.
Real Madrid and Girona from Spain, Manchester City from England, and Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Dortmund from Germany will compete for the Best Club of 2024 award, in recognition of their outstanding performances at the local and European levels.
For women, 30 players have been nominated to win the 2024 Ballon d’Or to succeed Barcelona’s Aitana Bonmati, who won the award last year. She will defend her title this year, with the presence of Spain’s Alexia Putellas, Zambia’s Orlando Barbara Banda, Brazil’s Tarciani, England’s Lauren Hemp and other players who shone throughout last season.
Barcelona, Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain, Olympique Lyonnais and Gotham City FC are nominated for the Best Women’s Club award.
100 journalists representing the top 100 countries in the FIFA rankings will participate in determining the identity of the player who will win the 2024 Ballon d’Or, as was the case in previous editions, as this evaluation is added to the choices of players and coaches around the world, according to a specific scoring scale.
