PARIS (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain ahead Ousmane Dembélé and England ahead Chloe Kelly are among the many main contenders to win the boys’s and ladies’s Ballon d’Or awards on Monday.
They’re entrance runners among the many 30 males’s and 30 girls’s nominees revealed final month by France Soccer journal, with the winners introduced at a ceremony in central Paris.
Dembélé was inspirational in main PSG to its first Champions League title and is amongst a exceptional 9 PSG gamers vying for the boys’s award. Goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma has since joined Manchester Metropolis however was nominated as a PSG participant.
Teenage Barcelona star Lamine Yamal and Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah are additionally candidates.
When England gained the Girls’s European Championship in July, Kelly blasted residence the decisive penalty within the closing in opposition to world champion Spain. She additionally gained the Girls’s Champions League with shock winner Arsenal.
She faces competitors from defender Lucy Bronze and goalkeeper Hannah Hampton — her England teammates who each play for Chelsea — and from Barcelona midfielder Aitana Bonmatí, the winner of the previous two awards.
Barcelona gamers have gained the previous 4 girls’s awards.
PSG gamers absent
As a result of Ligue 1 postponed Sunday night time’s match between host Marseille and PSG by 24 hours as a consequence of a extreme climate forecast, the match at Stade Velodrome is scheduled to begin on Monday at 8 p.m. native time (1800 GMT).
That clashes with the Ballon d’Or ceremony and prevents most PSG gamers from attending.
Nonetheless, Dembélé, Désiré Doué and João Neves are injured and never within the matchday squad, leaving them free to attend the ceremony.
PSG’s Luis Enrique was nominated for greatest coach.
The ceremony is at Théâtre du Châtelet and begins at 9 p.m. native time (1900 GMT). Viewers in the USA can watch the present on Paramount+.
The voting system
The Ballon d’Or was created by France Soccer and has been awarded since 1956 for males, and since 2018 for girls. It’s voted for by journalists from the highest 100 nations within the FIFA rankings for the boys’s award and the highest 50 FIFA-ranked nations for the ladies’s award.
Every journalist, one per nation, selects gamers in ranked order with factors attributed to every place. ___
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