2007 Ballon d'Or

Football award January 2023 2007 Ballon d'Or Kaka06052007.jpg 2007 Ballon d'Or winner, Kaká 2007 12 02 y Paris, France France France Football ballondor.com Won by BRA Kaká (1st award) 2006 Ballon d'Or 2008 The 2007 Ballon d'Or (2007 Golden Ball), given to the best football player in the world given out by France Football and UEFA and judged by an international panel of sports journalists, was awarded to Kaká.https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/europa-poy07.html European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 2007 RSSSF 9 October 2008 5 December 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20081024172719/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/europa-poy07.html 24 October 2008 livehttp://francefootball.fr/FF/breves2007/20071202_105047Dev.html Kakà, King of the World France Football 2 December 2007 5 December 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20081217021622/http://www.francefootball.fr/FF/breves2007/20071202_105047Dev.html 17 December 2008 dead This was the first year in which players from clubs outside the UEFA federation were eligible for nomination; this change also led to an increase in the voting pool to include journalists from outside UEFA countries.https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/7750910.stm Kaka wins 2007 award BBC Sport 1 December 2008 5 December 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20081204115634/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7750910.stm 4 December 2008 live Kaká was the fourth Brazilian national to win the award after Ronaldo (1997, 2002), Rivaldo (1999), and Ronaldinho (2005). He was the sixth AC Milan player to win the trophy after Gianni Rivera (1969), Ruud Gullit (1987), Marco van Basten (1988, 1989, 1992), George Weah (1995), and Andriy Shevchenko (2004). The ceremony is notable as Kaká was the last player to win the Ballon d'Or before the Messi–Ronaldo dominance of the award. In 2018, Croatian Luka Modrić ended the 10-year dominance following his win that year. Rankings RankPlayerNationalityClub(s)Points1KakáBrazilITA AC Milan4442Cristiano RonaldoPortugalENG Manchester United2773Lionel MessiArgentinaESP Barcelona2554Didier DrogbaIvory CoastENG Chelsea1085Andrea PirloItalyITA AC Milan416Ruud van NistelrooyNetherlandsESP Real Madrid397Zlatan IbrahimovićSwedenITA Inter Milan318Cesc FàbregasSpainENG Arsenal279RobinhoBrazilESP Real Madrid2410Francesco TottiItalyITA Roma2011Frédéric KanoutéMaliESP Sevilla1912RonaldinhoBrazilESP Barcelona1813Steven GerrardEnglandENG Liverpool1714Juan Román RiquelmeArgentinaESP VillarrealARG Boca Juniors1515Dani AlvesBrazilESP Sevilla1416Filippo InzaghiItalyITA AC Milan1217Franck RibéryFranceFRA MarseilleGER Bayern Munich1018Paolo MaldiniItalyITA AC Milan819Gianluigi BuffonItalyITA Juventus7Petr ČechCzech RepublicENG Chelsea7Gennaro GattusoItalyITA AC Milan7Thierry HenryFranceENG ArsenalESP Barcelona7Clarence SeedorfNetherlandsITA AC Milan724Fabio CannavaroItalyESP Real Madrid5Michael EssienGhanaENG Chelsea526Wayne RooneyEnglandENG Manchester United427Iker CasillasSpainESP Real Madrid3Rogério CeniBrazilBRA São Paulo329Younis MahmoudIraq 2004QAT Al-Gharafa230Guillermo OchoaMexicoMEX América1Dimitar BerbatovBulgariaENG Tottenham Hotspur1Samuel Eto'oCameroonESP Barcelona1Ryan GiggsWalesENG Manchester United1Carlos TevezArgentinaENG West Ham UnitedENG Manchester United1Robin van PersieNetherlandsENG Arsenal136Eric AbidalFranceFRA LyonESP Barcelona0David BeckhamEnglandESP Real MadridUSA LA Galaxy0DecoPortugalESP Barcelona0Mahamadou DiarraMaliESP Real Madrid0DiegoBrazilGER Werder Bremen0Miroslav KloseGermanyGER Werder BremenGER Bayern Munich0Florent MaloudaFranceFRA LyonENG Chelsea0Shunsuke NakamuraJapanSCO Celtic0Ricardo QuaresmaPortugalPOR Porto0RaúlSpainESP Real Madrid0Paul ScholesEnglandENG Manchester United0Luca ToniItalyGER Bayern Munich0Kolo TouréIvory CoastENG Arsenal0Fernando TorresSpainESP Atlético MadridENG Liverpool0David VillaSpainESP Valencia0 References External links France Football Official Ballon d'Or page 2007 Category:2007–08 in European football Category:2007 in Paris Category:2007 sports awards