Īfter 2007, coaches and captains of national teams were also given the right to vote. In 1995, the Ballon d'Or was expanded to include all players from any origin that have been active at European clubs. Originally, it was awarded only to players from Europe and widely known as the European Footballer of the Year award. The recipients of the joint FIFA Ballon d'Or are considered as winners by both award organisations.Ĭonceived by sports writers Gabriel Hanot and Jacques Ferran, the Ballon d'Or award honours the male player deemed to have performed the best over the previous year, based on voting by football journalists, from 1956 to 2006. That partnership ended in 2016, and the award reverted to the Ballon d'Or, while FIFA also reverted to its own separate annual award The Best FIFA Men's Player.

Between 20, in an agreement with FIFA, the award was temporarily merged with the FIFA World Player of the Year (founded in 1991) and known as the FIFA Ballon d'Or. ' Golden Ball ') is an annual football award presented by French news magazine France Football since 1956. The Ballon d'Or ( French pronunciation: ( listen) lit.

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