Alexia Putellas and Karim Benzema have been named the 2022 Ballon d’Or winners on the annual soccer awards ceremony in Paris.
Putellas retains her title because the world’s greatest girls’s participant after main Barcelona to a different Spanish title, scoring 18 targets within the course of. Barça gained all 30 of their league video games and likewise gained the Spanish Cup and Tremendous Cup, however misplaced the Ladies’s Champions League ultimate to Lyon and he or she missed the Euros after struggling an ACL damage.
“I’m very completely satisfied to be again right here,” Putellas mentioned. “Profitable final 12 months pushed me to need to be even higher. With out my teammates, this wouldn’t have been doable. I need to thank the coaches and technical employees who assist me to enhance every single day.”
Benzema has gained the boys’s award for the primary time after main Real Madrid to the Spanish title and their 14th European Cup. The 34-year-old scored 27 targets in La Liga and was additionally the highest scorer within the Champions League with 15. Ten of these targets got here within the knockout levels, together with hat-tricks in opposition to Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea. He’s the primary French winner of the award since Zinedine Zidane in 1998.
After receiving an enormous ovation from the group, Benzema mentioned: “This prize in entrance of me makes me actually proud. I by no means gave up, it was a childhood dream. There was a tough interval the place I wasn’t within the France crew, however I stored working laborious. I stored in my head this pleasure of taking part in soccer; I’m actually happy with my journey right here.”
The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, tweeted “KB9!” with a French flag after the outcome. Macron then posted a second tweet which learn: “Two letters and a quantity that can go down in soccer historical past. Twenty-four years after Zidane, Karim Benzema brings a brand new Ballon d’Or to France. Congratulations to him!”
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Males’s Ballon d’Or 2022: the complete record
Present
1 Karim Benzema (Actual Madrid, France)
2 Sadio Mané (Liverpool/Bayern, Senegal)
3 Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester Metropolis, Belgium)
4 Robert Lewandowski (Bayern/Barcelona, Poland)
5 Mohamed Salah (Liverpool, Egypt)
6 Kylian Mbappé (PSG, France)
7 Thibaut Courtois (Actual Madrid, Belgium)
8 Vinícius Júnior (Actual Madrid, Brazil)
9 Luka Modric (Actual Madrid, Croatia)
10 Erling Haaland (Dortmund/Man Metropolis, Norway)
11 Son Heung-min (Tottenham, Kor)
12 Riyad Mahrez (Man Metropolis, Alg)
13 Sébastien Haller (Ajax/Dortmund, Civ)
14= Fabinho (Liverpool, Bra), Rafael Leão (Milan, Por)
16 Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool, Neth)
17= Casemiro (Actual/Man Utd, Bra); Luis Díaz (Porto/Liverpool, Col); Dusan Vlahovic (Fiorentina/Juventus, Ser)
20 Cristiano Ronaldo (Man Utd, Por)
21 Harry Kane (Tottenham, Eng)
22= Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool, Eng); Phil Foden (Man Metropolis, Eng); Bernardo Silva (Man Metropolis, Por)
25= João Cancelo (Man Metropolis, Por); Joshua Kimmich (Bayern, Ger); Mike Maignan (Milan, Fr); Darwin Núñez (Benfica/Liverpool, Uru); Christopher Nkunku (Leipzig, Fr); Antonio Rüdiger (Chelsea/Actual, Ger).
Beth Mead completed second within the girls’s vote after serving to England to glory at Euro 2022. The Arsenal ahead scored six targets and added 5 assists to win the event’s golden boot and greatest participant awards.
The Australia and Chelsea ahead Sam Kerr got here third, forward of the Germany and Wolfsburg midfielder Lena Oberdorf. Putellas’s Spain and Barça teammate Aitana Bonmatí accomplished the highest 5.
Sadio Mané, who left Liverpool for Bayern Munich this summer time, got here second within the males’s vote and gained the Socrates award for his charitable work in Senegal. The Manchester Metropolis playmaker Kevin De Bruyne completed third, his highest putting so far forward of Robert Lewandowski and Mohamed Salah.
Lewandowski, who joined Barcelona from Bayern Munich this summer time, got here fourth within the males’s rating and likewise gained the Gerd Müller trophy for the world’s greatest ahead. “I need to thank my teammates from each Bayern and Barça, as a result of I understand how laborious we’ve got to work to attain the targets,” he mentioned.
Salah positioned fifth, with the PSG ahead Kylian Mbappé in sixth. Thibaut Courtois gained the Lev Yashin trophy for the world’s greatest goalkeeper and positioned seventh general, together with his Actual Madrid teammates Vinícius Júnior and Luka Modric in eighth and ninth place. Erling Haaland (tenth) completed within the high 10 for the primary time.
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Ladies’s Ballon d’Or 2022: the complete record
Present
1 Alexia Putellas (Barcelona, Spain)
2 Beth Mead (Arsenal, England)
3 Sam Kerr (Chelsea, Australia)
4 Lena Oberdorf (Wolfsburg, Germany)
5 Aitana Bonmatí (Barcelona, Sp)
6 Alexandra Popp (Wolfsburg, Ger)
7 Ada Hegerberg (Lyon, Norway)
8 Wendie Renard (Lyon, France)
9 Catarina Macario (Lyon, USA)
10 Lucy Bronze (Man Metropolis/Barça, Eng)
11 Vivianne Miedema (Arsenal, Netherlands)
12 Christiane Endler (Lyon, Chile)
13 Alex Morgan (Orlando/San Diego, USA)
14 Selma Bacha (Lyon, Fr)
15 Millie Shiny (Chelsea, Eng)
16 Marie-Antoinette Katoto (PSG, Fr)
17 Asisat Oshoala (Barcelona, Nga)
18 Trinity Rodman (Washington, USA)
19 Fridolina Rolfö (Barcelona, Sweden)
20 Kadidiatou Diani (PSG, Fr)
The Spain and Barcelona midfielder Gavi gained the Kopa trophy for the very best males’s under-21 participant, following the success of his teammate Pedri final season. Manchester Metropolis have been named membership of the 12 months after Pep Guardiola’s aspect gained their fourth Premier League title in 5 seasons.
Adjustments to the format of the awards, that are organised by France Soccer journal, meant that for the primary time, performances have been judged throughout the 2021-22 season quite than the calendar 12 months. The lads’s judging panel was additionally decreased from 170 to 100, with 50 judges for the ladies’s prize.
