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Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos and club legend Iker Casillas have led criticism of the decision to hand Lionel Messi this year’s Ballon d’Or, with the German claiming ‘it’s absolutely not deserved’. The Paris Saint-Germain forward saw off competition from Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski and Chelsea midfielder Jorginho to lift the seventh Ballon d’Or of his incredible career. Messi ...

Alexia Putellas became just the third female player to win the Women’s Ballon d’Or following a treble-winning campaign for Barcelona. Having already been crowned UEFA Women’s Player of the Year, Putellas was favourite to land the award handed out by France Football. The Barcelona captain, 27, steered her side to the Spanish league and cup in 2020-21 and then completed ...

Cristiano Ronaldo has accused the France Football editor of lying after he said the Portuguese’s only ambition was to retire with more Ballon d’Ors than Lionel Messi. Ballon d’Or organiser Pascal Ferre made the claim to the New York Times. Paris St-Germain’s Messi won his seventh Ballon d’Or on Monday, with five-time winner Ronaldo voted sixth. “I always win for ...

Ghana Premier League side, Berekum Chelsea have announced the appointment of Benard Amofa Jantuah and Gifty Oware Mensah as President and Vice President of the club respectively. The club announced the appointments on their social media handles today. “ ‘ . .” A statement on the club’s official handle read. Football administrator, Nana Kwame Nketiah was the President of the ...

The Ghana Premier League had some exciting and mouthwatering games this weekend. Records were set and broken this weekend as the various teams were in the quest to grab all three points. WAFA have picked up their first win of the Ghana Premier League this season, in what was their 5th game. In their first four games, they played against; ...

Chelsea’s Senegalese goalkeeper Edouard Mendy is confident he can win the Lev Yashin award for Europe’s best goalkeeper when the Ballon d’Or gala takes place on Monday night. The 29-year-old is one of the ten goalkeepers in contention for the prize, with only Paris Saint-Germain’s European Championship-winner Gianluigi Donnarumma up for the main Ballon d’Or trophy itself. Nonetheless, Mendy – ...

Manchester United have appointed Ralf Rangnick as their interim manager until the end of the season, subject to work visa requirements. The 63-year-old takes over from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who was sacked on 21 November following a defeat by Watford. Rangnick has left his role as head of sports and development at Russian club Lokomotiv Moscow to take up the ...

Football royalty is set to gather at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris this Monday, November 29, for the ceremony to crown the 2021 Ballon d’Or winner in both men’s and women’s football. Voting for the winners closed on November 24, and the winners will be announced on Monday evening at 20:00 GMT. The race to be crowned the best ...

Former Barcelona striker Samuel Eto’o has been cleared to stand in elections to be the next president of the Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot). A total of six candidates, including incumbent Seidou Mbombo Njoya, have been approved by Fecafoot’s electoral committee to stand in the polls on 11 December. Another former international Jules Denis Onana is also eligible for the elections, ...

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Friday during their Extraordinary Assembly announced a new date for the 2022 World Cup play-offs draw. The draw has been moved from 18 December 2021 to January 26, 2022. According to the decision, the January 2022 rankings will be used to seed the teams for the draw. The top five ranked teams at ...