Home Breaking News Lamine Yamal, crowned best young player… trophy ceremony continues

Lamine Yamal, crowned best young player… trophy ceremony continues

29
0
Lamine Yamal, crowned best young player… trophy ceremony continues

Cover image: Lionel Messi poses with his eighth Ballon d’Or, during the 67th ceremony, organized in Paris at the Théâtre du Châtelet, on October 30, 2023. Michel Euler/AP

Welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the 2024 Ballon d’Or ceremony. In addition to the individual trophies that will reward the best player and the best footballer of the sporting season, other prizes will be awarded throughout the evening.

What is it about? From the 2024 Ballon d’Or ceremony, the highlight of the last season of the football calendar. For the first time since 2003, neither the Argentine Lionel Messi – eight times winner and last winner – nor the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo are part of the list of thirty players named. Among the men, the uncertainty remains to determine an unprecedented winner, between the Brazilian Vinicius Junior, the Spanish Rodri or the Englishman Jude Bellingham. As for the players, Barcelona’s Aitana Bonmati could revalidate her title, competing with her compatriot and teammate Alexia Putellas, already awarded in 2021 and 2022.

To liven up the evening, football france It will award other prizes, including the Yachine Trophy (which chooses the best goalkeeper) and the Kopa Trophy (which awards the best player under 21 years of age).

When ? The list will be revealed gradually starting in the afternoon, but the official event begins at 8:45 p.m.

EITHER ? At the Théâtre du Châtelet, in Paris.

On what channel? The L’Equipe channel.

Who referees? A jury made up of one hundred journalists, one from each member country of the top 100 of the FIFA ranking, will be in charge of voting for the big winner. For the women’s Ballon d’Or, the jury is limited to fifty members.

With who ? A gala quintet will take you to experience the ceremony in their most beautiful evening dresses: Louise Le Borgne, Marion Bothorel, Yanis Soul and Valentin Baudry from the Austerlitz kop, supported by Denis Ménétrier, dressed to the nines in the Parisian hall.

What probably won’t we talk about? Of “those freshly seared imperial shrimp that reveal abundant, firm meat”

What to read while you wait:

Ballon d’Or 2023: Lionel Messi, again and again

Ballon d’Or 2023: Aitana Bonmati, a footballer with “extraordinary talent” committed to the rights of women and refugees

In their first Clásico, Kylian Mbappé and Real Madrid sink against FC Barcelona

“I don’t arrive with the same charisma as Hervé Renard”: Laurent Bonadei, the little-known coach who whispers in the ears of the Bleues du Football

The fall in the amount of football television rights could threaten the financing of sport in France

Atlético de Madrid-Lille: the Mastiffs emerge from a bad situation and offer themselves another prestigious success in the Champions League

PSG-PSV Eindhoven: still burdened by their offensive ineffectiveness, Paris concedes a disappointing draw

Source

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here