Spain and Manchester Metropolis midfielder Rodri received the 2024 Ballon d’Or award within the male class on Monday through the ceremony on the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, France.
The 28-year-old, who was a number one determine in Manchester Metropolis’s English Premier League title triumph additionally performed a pivotal position in Spain’s European Championship triumph.
“An unbelievable evening for me. It’s a special occasion for me, my household and my nation,” Rodri stated upon receiving the award.
“I at all times attempt to enhance on daily basis, the extent of my recreation, [playing] the fashionable holding midfielder position, enjoying additional ahead. I’m only a regular man, I take pleasure in sport, take pleasure in my occupation. I attempt to be a very good particular person, attempt to be a pacesetter. I’m a relaxed particular person, till I get upset. I’d like to point out the children that you simply don’t need to be loopy, you generally is a regular man, attempt to do your finest,” he added.
Ending behind him within the tally was Vinicius Jr, who didn’t attend the award ceremony as didn’t any of his Actual Madrid teammates or Carlo Ancelotti, who was named the very best coach within the males’s division. Earlier, studies from Spain had recommended that Madrid had boycotted to attend the occasion after they realized that the Brazilian didn’t win the award for the very best males’s participant.
The La Liga and UEFA Champions League winners of the final season went on to win the lads’s membership of the yr award.
In the meantime, Aitana Bonmati received the ladies’s Ballon d’Or after having led Barcelona Femeni to a treble successful season and having received the Ladies’s World Cup with Spain.
Different awards
Greatest girls’s membership: Barcelona Femeni
Greatest goalkeeper (male): Emiliano Martinez
Greatest younger participant: Lamine Yamal
Greatest girls’s coach: Emma Hayes (Chelsea)
Gerd Muller award (most targets): Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappe (52 targets)