You know that the Super Ballon d'Or exists? It was December way back 1989. The famous magazine France Football celebrated the 30th anniversary of the magazine with an award as special as it was unknown: the Super Ballon d'Or.
What is the Super Ballon d'Or?
This award concerned a trophy whose objective was to recognize the best Ballon d'Or of all those who had won it up to that point. Platinum, Cruyff, Di Stéfano and many others aspired to be the best of the best. In the end it was Don Alfredo, The former Real Madrid star, to bring home this prestigious but unique award in history. Di Stéfano is in fact the only player in all of history to have won a Super Ballon d'Or.
Since then, France Football has never celebrated this type of event again, except that honorary Golden Ball which was awarded to Diego Armando Maradona in 1995 to celebrate the opening of the prize to non-European players (the Argentinian Di Stéfano also had Spanish nationality). The same year in which the first and only African in history so far won it, George Weah. The Liberian is undoubtedly one of the best African players of all time.
He should be given the Super Ballon d'Or again?
Looking at the last few years in which Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo competed and shared all the Golden Balls awarded, they should rethink the creation of the Super Ballon d'Or? Who would win it?
They should give it to both of them since they are the two players who have won it the most times in history? Questions that with the separation between the Ballon d'Or and The Best of FIFA it seems that we will not get answers for a long time.
Who has won the most Golden Balls??
Leo Messi 8: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021 e 2023 Cristiano Ronaldo 5: 2008, 2013, 2014, 2016 e 2017 Johan Cruyff 3: 1971, 1973, 1974 Marco van Basten 3: 1988, 1989, 1992 Michael Platini 3: 1983, 1984, 1985 Franz Beckenbauer 2: 1972, 1976 Kevin Keegan 2: 1978, 1979 Ronaldo 2: 1997, 2002 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge 2: 1980, 1981 Alfredo Di Stefano 2: 1957, 1959
All the winners of the Ballon d'Or
1956 – Stanley Matthews – England
1957 – Alfredo Di Stéfano – Spain
1958 - Raymond Kopa - France
1959 – Alfredo Di Stéfano – Spain
1960 – Luis Suárez – Spain
1961 - Omar Sivori - Italy
1962 – Josef Masopust – Czechoslovakia
1963 – Lev Yashin – Soviet Union
1964 – Denis Law – Scotland
1965 – Eusebio – Portugal
1966 – Bobby Charlton – England
1967 – Florian Albert – Hungary
1968 – George Best – Northern Ireland
1969 - Gianni Rivera - Italy
1970 – Gerd Muller – Germania
1971 – Johan Cruyff – Netherlands
1972 – Franz Beckenbauer – Germania
1973 – Johan Cruyff – Netherlands
1974 – Johan Cruyff – Netherlands
1975 – Oleg Blokhin – Soviet Union
1976 – Franz Beckenbauer – Germania
1977 – Allan Simonsen – Denmark
1978 – Kevin Keegan – Inhilterra
1979 – Kevin Keegan – Inhilterra
1980 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge – Germania
1981 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge – Germania
1982 - Paolo Rossi - Italy
1983 - Michel Platini - France
1984 - Michel Platini - France
1985 - Michel Platini - France
1986 – Igor Belanov – Soviet Union
1987 – Ruud Gullit – Netherlands
1988 – Marco van Basten – Netherlands
1989 – Marco van Basten – Netherlands
1990 – Lothar Matthaus – Germania
1991 - Jean-Pierre Papin - Francia
1992 – Marco van Basten – Netherlands
1993 - Roberto Baggio - Italy
1994 - Hristo Stoichkov - Bulgaria
1995 – George Weah – Liberia
1996 – Matthias Sammer – Germania
1997 – Ronaldo – Brazil
1998 - Zinedine Zidane - France
1999 – Rivaldo – Brazil
2000 – Luis Figo – Portugal
2001 – Michael Owen – England
2002 – Ronaldo – Brazil
2003 – Pavel Nedved – Czech Republic
2004 – Andriy Shevchenko – Ukraine
2005 – Ronaldinho – Brazil
2006 - Fabio Cannavaro - Italy
2007 – Kaká – Brasile
2008 – Cristiano Ronaldo – Portugal
2009 - Lionel Messi - Argentina
2010 - Lionel Messi - Argentina
2011 - Lionel Messi - Argentina
2012 - Lionel Messi - Argentina
2013- Cristiano Ronaldo- Portugal
2014-Cristiano Ronaldo-Portugal
2015-Lionel Messi-Argentina
2016-Cristiano Ronaldo- Portugal
2017-Cristiano Ronaldo-Portugal
2018-Luka Modric-Croatia
2019-Leo Messi-Argentina
2020-It was not awarded due to the coronavirus crisis
2021-Leo Messi-Argentina
2022-Karim Benzema
2023-Leo Messi-Argentina
Honorary Golden Ball
1995-Diego Armando Maradona-Argentina 2013-Pelé-Brazil