Rodrigo Hernandez Cascante is the new one Ballon d’Or. To the surprise of many and fully deserved, the Madrid midfielder, key to the recent successes of City of Manchester and in the Spanish team, he is considered the best soccer player in the world. This is evidenced by an award where, until nowonly one Spaniard was recognized in the men’s category.
is Luis Suarez Miramonteslegend of FC Barcelona and winner of Ballon d’Or in 1960. 64 years later, Rodri He succeeded the midfielder from A Coruña, second in the 1961 and 1964 editions and third in the 1965 edition, and achieved what they could not. Raúl González Blanco, Xavi Hernández either Andres Iniestaamong others.
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Don Andres was very close in 2010, with a superlative Leo Messi (with 22.65% of the votes) surpassed both him (17.36%) and Xavi (16.48%), completing a Barça podium for the ages. Nine years earlier, in 2001, it was Raoul who caressed a Ballon d’Or which ended up in English Michael Owen, at that time in Liverpool.
The quota of Spaniards who are in the Top-3 candidates for Ballon d’Or let them take it Amancio Amaro (1964), Emilio Butragueño (1986 and 1987), Fernando Torres (2008), Xavi (2009 and 2010) and Iniesta (2012), third of the aforementioned editions.
Here’s how the Spanish players fared in the Ballon d’Or:
Winner: Luis Suárez (1960) and Rodri (2024)
Second: Luis Suárez (1961 and 1964), Raúl (2001), and Iniesta (2010)
Third: Amaro (1964), Luis Suárez (1965), Butragueño (1986 and 1987), Torres (2008), Xavi (2009, 2010 and 2011) and Iniesta (2012).
Source: La Verdad
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