2009 Ballon d'Or

Annual association football award event in France June 2024 2009 Ballon d'Or Messi Training (cropped).jpg 2009 Ballon d'Or winner, Lionel Messi 2009 12 01 y Paris, France France France Football ballondor.com Won by ARG Lionel Messi (1st award) 2008 Ballon d'Or 2010 The 2009 Ballon d'Or (2009 Golden Ball), given to the best football player in the world as judged by an international panel of sports journalists, was awarded to Lionel Messi of Barcelona on 1 December 2009, the first of his record setting eight Ballon d'Or awards.Classement 2009 http://www.francefootball.fr/Ballon_Or_2012/bo_2009.php fr France Football Groupe Amaury 10 January 2013 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20121116005111/http://www.francefootball.fr/Ballon_Or_2012/bo_2009.php 16 November 2012 Messi won the award by a then record margin, 240 points ahead of 2008 winner Cristiano Ronaldo. Xavi was the second Barcelona player in the top three, finishing a further 63 points behind Ronaldo. Messi's win made him the first Argentine-born player to win the award since Omar Sívori in 1961; however, Sívori had taken Italian citizenship by that time and is recognised to have won the Ballon d'Or as an Italian player. Rankings RankPlayerNationalityClub(s)Points1Lionel MessiArgentinaESP Barcelona4732Cristiano RonaldoPortugalENG Manchester UnitedESP Real Madrid2333XaviSpainESP Barcelona1704Andrés IniestaSpainESP Barcelona1495Samuel Eto'oCameroonESP BarcelonaITA Internazionale756KakáBrazilITA MilanESP Real Madrid587Zlatan IbrahimovićSwedenITA InternazionaleESP Barcelona508Wayne RooneyEnglandENG Manchester United359Didier DrogbaIvory CoastENG Chelsea3310Steven GerrardEnglandENG Liverpool3211Fernando TorresSpainENG Liverpool2212Cesc FàbregasSpainENG Arsenal1313Edin DžekoBosnia and HerzegovinaGER VfL Wolfsburg1214Ryan GiggsWalesENG Manchester United1115Thierry HenryFranceESP Barcelona916Luís FabianoBrazilESP Sevilla8Nemanja VidićSerbia 2004ENG Manchester United8Iker CasillasSpainESP Real Madrid819Diego ForlánUruguayESP Atlético Madrid720Yoann GourcuffFranceFRA Bordeaux621Andrey ArshavinRussiaENG Arsenal5Júlio CésarBrazilITA Internazionale5Frank LampardEnglandENG Chelsea524MaiconBrazilITA Internazionale425DiegoBrazilGER Werder BremenITA Juventus326David VillaSpainESP Valencia2John TerryEnglandENG Chelsea228Franck RibéryFranceGER Bayern Munich1Yaya TouréIvory CoastESP Barcelona130Karim BenzemaFranceFRA LyonESP Real Madrid0 References External links France Football Official Ballon d'Or page 2009 Category:2009–10 in European football Category:2009 in Paris Category:2009 sports awards