The 2024 France Football Ballon d’Or will reward the best player of the 2023-2024 season on Monday, October 28, and, despite the end of the season with Spain’s victories at the Euro in Germany and Argentina’s at the Copa América in Miami, the suspense is total. Two Champions League winners with Real Madrid are leading the race with the bookmakers: Vinicius and Jude Bellingham. Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland have not even reached the C1 final…
“Vini Jr” may have gotten a bit ahead of himself. He was the great offensive leader of the Merengues but was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the Copa América with Brazil. As for Bellingham, he disappeared a bit from circulation during the second half of the season with Real and did not shine during the European Championship in Germany, despite his acrobatic overhead kick goal in the 95th minute of the round of 16 against Slovakia and the Three Lions’ journey to the final in Berlin.
The Ballon d’Or for a full-back?
But what about the best players of the Roja at the Euro? Rodri would make a superb Ballon d’Or, he the strategist of the best team in England and Europe in recent years, Manchester City. Lamine Yamal, 17, and Nico Williams, 22, have also been phenomenal in some Euro matches. And Dani Carvajal? He is the valiant right-back of Real and the Seleccion. Above all, he opened the scoring for his club in the Champions League final against Dortmund and was at the origin of the first Spanish goal against the English!
A Real Madrid fan votes for Carvajal: Ilia Topuria, the Georgian MMA fighter living in Spain. “It seems fair to me because he deserves it. He has won everything, La Liga, the Champions League, the Euros, he has more titles than anyone else. Today, he deserves it without a doubt,” the Alicante-raised player told Marca. Ilia Topuria had been invited to a ceremony organized by the Boadilla del Monte town hall to pay tribute to Carvajal and Joselu, who live in the town west of the Spanish capital. The 32-year-old defender would become the first full-back to win the Ballon d’Or in history.
