Spain and Barcelona midfielder Aitana Bonmati has made historical past by turning into the primary participant to win the ladies’s Ballon d’Or thrice.
Bonmati, 27, took the award along with her worldwide team-mate, Arsenal winger Mariona Caldentey, coming second.
There have been 5 England gamers within the high 10. Arsenal trio Alessia Russo, Chloe Kelly and Leah Williamson got here third, fifth and seventh respectively, with Chelsea duo Lucy Bronze and Hannah Hampton ninth and tenth.
Bonmati additionally gained the award in 2023 and 2024. It means Barcelona gamers have gained the honour in every of the previous 5 years after midfielder Alexia Putellas earned the prize in 2021 and 2022.
Talking on stage, Bonmati, who obtained the award from Barcelona legend Andres Iniesta, stated: “My third time in a row right here, and I nonetheless cannot consider it. Unbelievable. Thanks to France Soccer for this, for the third time – it actually might have gone to anybody.
“If it was attainable to share it I’d, as a result of I feel it has been a 12 months with an exceptionally excessive stage, above all amongst my team-mates, who had an important 12 months.
“Additionally to obtain it from the palms of Andres Iniesta, one in all my idols since I used to be little, alongside Xavi. I realized my soccer from them – to today I thank them for all that they’ve taught me. Thanks to them for the whole lot that they’ve achieved in soccer.
“I owe Barcelona the whole lot – that is the membership of my life. I hope to symbolize this badge for a lot of extra years.”
The award, formally known as the Ballon d’Or Feminin, recognises one of the best footballer of the 12 months and is voted for by a jury of journalists.
Outdoors the highest 10, Arsenal defenders Emily Fox and Steph Catley got here twenty fifth and twenty ninth respectively, with midfielder Frida Maanum ending twenty seventh. Chelsea pair Sandy Baltimore and Johanna Rytting Kaneryd completed fifteenth and twenty third, whereas former Blues midfielder Pernille Tougher was twentieth.
Scotland and Actual Madrid midfielder Caroline Weir completed thirtieth within the vote.
It was a nice evening for the Lionesses as supervisor Sarina Wiegman gained the ladies’s coach award and Chelsea’s Hannah Hampton was named greatest ladies’s goalkeeper.
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