1957 Ballon d'Or

Annual football award event in France 1957 Ballon d'Or File:Di stefano real madrid cf (cropped).png 1957 Ballon d'Or winner, Alfredo Di Stéfano 17 December 1957 Paris, France France Football ballondor.com Won by ESP 1945 Alfredo Di Stéfano (1st award) 1956 Ballon d'Or 1958 The 1957 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to Alfredo Di Stéfano on 17 December 1957.Pierrend José https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/europa-poy57.html European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1957 18 April 2007 RSSSF Rankings RankNameClub(s)NationalityPoints 1 Alfredo Di Stéfano ESP 1945 Real Madrid Spain 1945Despite being born in Argentina, Alfredo Di Stéfano acquired Spanish citizenship in 1956, and went on to play for the Spain national team.http://www.uefa.com/uefa/history/associationweeks/association=122/newsid=255616.html Europe dazzled by Di Stéfano UEFA 22 November 2004 6 December 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20081211210548/http://www.uefa.com/uefa/history/associationweeks/association%3D122/newsId%3D255616.html 11 December 2008 dead lower-alpha 72 2 Billy Wright ENG Wolverhampton Wanderers England 19 3 Duncan Edwards ENG Manchester United England 16 Raymond Kopa ESP 1945 Real Madrid France 5 László Kubala ESP 1945 Barcelona Hungary 15 6 John Charles ENG Leeds UnitedItaly Juventus Wales 1953 14 7 Eduard Streltsov Soviet Union Torpedo Moscow Soviet Union 12 8 Tommy Taylor ENG Manchester United England 10 9 József Bozsik Hungary Budapest Honvéd Hungary 9 Igor Netto Soviet Union Spartak Moscow Soviet Union 11 Lev Yashin Soviet Union Dynamo Moscow Soviet Union 8 12 Paco Gento ESP 1945 Real Madrid Spain 1945 7 Gyula Grosics Hungary Budapest HonvédHungary Tatabánya Hungary 14 Danny Blanchflower ENG Tottenham Hotspur Northern Ireland 4 Miloš Milutinović Yugoslavia Partizan Yugoslavia Juan Alberto Schiaffino Italy Milan Italy 17 Gerhard Hanappi Austria Rapid Wien Austria 3 Johnny Haynes ENG Fulham England Stanley Matthews ENG Blackpool England 20 Sándor Kocsis SUI Young Fellows Zürich Hungary 2 Horst Szymaniak West Germany Wuppertaler SV West Germany 22 Kurt Hamrin Italy Padova Sweden 1 Ladislav Novák Czechoslovakia Dukla Prague Czechoslovakia Notes lower-alpha References External links France Football Official Ballon d'Or page 1957 Category:1956–57 in European football