The Golden Globe Award was born in 1956, the first year that England player Matthews won the award. (Stanley Matthews), born in 1915, was 41 years old when Matthews won the award. He was the oldest player in history to win the Golden Ball. He was also the only player to win the Golden Ball in the 1910s.
The Golden Arrow Di Stéfano, who won the Ballon d'Or in the 1920s, had won five consecutive European Cups. (Di Stéfano), the only two goalkeepers to win the Golden Ball, Black Spider Yashin.
In the 1930s, Luis Suarez, Masopust, considered the greatest Czech soccer player of all time, and Bobby Charlton, who just recently passed away, were the only people in Spain to be born and win the Golden Ball.
Beckenbauer and Cruyff were the most beautiful players of the 1940s. They won five Golden Balls in 1971-76. In addition, Eusebio the Panther, Gerd Muller the Eternal Bomber and George Best and Denis Law were among the three men whose bronze statues were erected outside Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium in 2008. Along with Bertie Charlton, they won 11 golden balls in the 1940s.
The stars of the 1950s were led by Keegan, Rummenigge and Platini, who won the Ballon d'Or between 1978-1985. Of these, Platini's treble achievement set a record at the time. During this period, only the 1982 Italian player Paulo Rossi won the Ballon d'Or for his spectacular performances in the world, and this generation also won 10 Ballon d'Ors.
Around 1990, the time when the stars of the 1960s were coming out of the woodwork, the Dutch Gullit and Van Basten won four Ballon d'Or awards in a six-year period between 1987-1992, followed by players such as the Prince of Melancholy, Baggio, Bulgaria's all-time greatest soccer player, Stoichkov, and the first Afro-descendant, Giorgio Vieira, who won a total of 11 Ballon d'Or awards.
The stars who won the Golden Ball before 2000 are also well-known modern players. The first of these stars born after 1970 to win the award was the Alien, Danilo, followed by Xidan, Rivaldo, Figo, Owen, Nedved, Shevchenko and Cannavaro, eight stars with nine Ballon d'Ors.
Before that, we took a quick look back through the generations of Ballon d'Or awards into the spine of our nation.Born in the 1980s, soccer officially entered a decade of dominance by Lionel Messi and Cairo after two Brazilian stars, Junior in 2005 and Kaká in 2007, won a Ballon d'Or each. Between 2008, when Crowe won his first award, and 2017, Crowe and Messi have won five Ballon d'Ors each. The longest past record of three consecutive awards was set by Platini, with Messi winning four consecutive Ballon d'Ors from 2009-2012.
In the past, the Ballon d'Or has never been monopolized for a long time. One of the reasons for this is that players who have excelled in the world in the past have had a relative chance of being favored by the Golden Globe. They have been through 17 World Series since the Ballon d'Or began. Thirteen times those who won the Ballon d'Or in the World Year were members of the world's top four teams, and seven of those times they were players on the winning team.
Among other things, we cannot ignore the fact that players without European citizenship could not win the award before 1995, so neither the Brazilian Ballon d'Or winner Billy nor the Argentinean Maradona was eligible for the Ballon d'Or. If the Ballon d'Or, then known as the European Footballer of the Year, had been opened up and players from all over the world would have competed for it, I'm sure the percentage of top four and winners in the world would have been much higher.
Against a backdrop of outstanding world performances, no one could shake the monopoly of Messi and Cairo.Spain, who won the world title in 2010, had the midfield duo of brains, Xavi and Iniesta, take second and third place in the Ballon d'Or, and Inter Milan Dutch midfielder Sneijder, who finished as the world's runner-up and triple champion of the club, was fourth. Messi achieved the defense of the Ballon d'Or rather than discuss the transfer of the Ballon d'Or organizers from French soccer to FIFA.
Germany won the world championship in 2014. Neuer was considered the best player, but Crowe won the Ballon d'Or that year. He helped Real Madrid win the Champions League. He scored 52 goals in 43 games, eventually beating Messi and Neuer.
Until 2018, Messi and Crow's monopoly on the Ballon d'Or still depended on the world. With his good performances in the world and at the heart of Real Madrid's Champions League-winning midfield, Kroesia Modric ended up winning the Ballon d'Or with a high score, ending Messi and Crow's 10-year monopoly on the award.
