FIFA Ballon d'Or
award for association football players (2010–2015)
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The FIFA Ballon d'Or was an annual award given to the best association football (soccer) player in the world from 2010 to 2015. It mattered because it represented one of the sport's most prestigious honors, recognizing excellence and achievement at the highest level of professional play.
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The FIFA Ballon d'Or ("Golden Ball") was an annual association football award presented to the world's best men's player from 2010 to 2015. Awarded jointly by FIFA and France Football, the prize was a merger of the FIFA World Player of the Year award and the Ballon d'Or, the two most prestigious individual honours in world football. Unlike the Ballon d'Or awarded by France Football, the FIFA Ballon d'Or, was not awarded solely based on votes from international journalists, but votes from national team coaches and captains also, who selected the players they deemed to have performed the best in the previous calendar year.
The six editions of the FIFA Ballon d'Or were dominated by Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, as part of their ongoing rivalry.