Season 5 Episode 14

Ballon d'Or

A prestigious honour or just a popularity contest? This is the story of the Ballon d'Or.
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Episode Notes

To some, it’s the highest individual honour that a footballer can receive. To others, it’s a vanity award, a simple popularity contest. But it has an interesting history and every year seems to get more controversial.

So how do you win it? Who decides it? Do players care about it? And what is the plural of Ballon d’Or?

Vocabulary

  1. Prestige: respect and admiration given to someone or something, usually because of a reputation for high quality, success, or social influence
    "No individual football award carries more prestige than the Ballon d'Or.”
  2. Jury: A group of people chosen to judge a something
    ”The Ballon d’Or jury is made up of journalists from the top 100 countries in the FIFA world rankings”
  3. Nominee: someone who has been nominated for something
    "Being a Ballon d'Or nominee puts players in an elite group of only 30 worldwide.”

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