Nothing is impossible in the Golden Ball race
I don’t know how to answer that for you, but the official “Al-Baloun” account posted today about the possibility of Messi winning the Ballon d’Or and published a report titled with the question you see here: “Is playing for a European team a requirement to win the Ballon d’Or?”
The Ballon d’Or account noted in the report that the award was established in 1956, and the requirement to win it was that you had to be a European player playing in a European league.
However, that changed in 2007, and the award became unrestricted—any player playing in any league can win it!
Since then, 18 awards have been presented to men and 17 to women. It turns out that no player competing in a league outside Europe has ever won the award except for Messi in 2023 and Megan Rapinoe in 2019—both of whom were playing for American clubs, Inter Miami and Seattle Reign!
The Ballon d’Or account noted that it could easily happen again, even though historically it’s been difficult—especially since the evaluation period runs from August 2025 to July 2026.
By that time, Messi has already contributed 78 goals and is a candidate to win the World Cup, become the tournament’s best player, and also its top scorer.
And here, the Ballon d’Or account pointed out that, historically, 13 players have won both the World Cup and the Ballon d’Or in a single season!
At the end of the report, the Ballon d’Or account wrote, “Nothing is impossible in the race for the Ballon d’Or.
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Nothing is impossible in the Golden Ball race
Nothing is impossible in the Golden Ball race
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