{"id":128743,"date":"2023-10-29T10:26:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T07:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/?p=128743"},"modified":"2023-10-30T13:36:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T10:36:54","slug":"when-is-the-ballon-dor-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/when-is-the-ballon-dor-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"When is the Ballon d\u2019Or ceremony?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria national football team fans are excited about the 2023 Ballon d\u2019Or ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>This is because the <a href=\"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/super-eagles-news\/\">Super Eagles<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/super-falcons\/\">Super Falcons<\/a> are ably represented by two of the best to have ever represented the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/victor-osimhen-profile\/\">Victor Osimhen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/asisat-oshoala-biography\/\">Asisat Oshoala<\/a> are nominees for the award, making Nigeria the first African country to present a male and a female nominee for the award. Nigerians have their fingers crossed for a good finish in the voting for both of them.<\/p>\n<p>With the award already here, here is information on the 2023 Ballon d\u2019Or including the date and venue of the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/victor-osimhen-final-ballon-dor-ranking\/\"><strong>Prediction: Victor Osimhen\u2019s final Ballon d\u2019Or ranking<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udccd A special place for a special night!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ballondor?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ballondor<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lbifqX2JSZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lbifqX2JSZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ballon d&#39;Or #ballondor (@ballondor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ballondor\/status\/1718583535047741535?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>What is the Ballon d\u2019Or?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an annual football award presented by French news magazine France Football since 1956.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between 2010 and 2015, in an agreement with FIFA, the award was temporarily merged with the FIFA World Player of the Year (founded in 1991) and known as the FIFA Ballon d'Or.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That partnership ended in 2016, and the award reverted to the Ballon d'Or, while FIFA also reverted to its own separate annual award &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/victor-osimhen-among-12-the-best-fifa-2023-nominees\/\">The Best FIFA Men's Player<\/a>. The recipients of the joint FIFA Ballon d'Or are considered as winners by both award organisations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the Ballon d\u2019Or is widely regarded as football\u2019s most prestigious and valuable individual award. Despite that, fans have always queried the process, describing it as a &#8220;popularity contest&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Which players have been nominated for the 2023 Ballon d\u2019Or?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen is among the names\u00a0 shortlisted for the 2023 Ballon d'Or award by French Football. The Napoli striker had a fabulous year and he hopes to record the highest finish by any Nigerian at the end of the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nigeria is the first African country to produce nominees for the Ballon d&#39;Or and Women&#39;s Ballon d&#39;Or in the same year.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Osimhen is up for the Ballon d&#39;Or, while Asisat Oshoala is up for the Women&#39;s Ballon d&#39;Or. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZNKRclxXzh\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ZNKRclxXzh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nwachukwu (@chigozie0102) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chigozie0102\/status\/1702934383286509801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Osimhen is up against huge favourites- Lionel Messi and treble-winning Manchester City\u2019s free-scoring Erling Haaland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Argentina captain led his country to victory in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, and he won the Ligue 1 title with Paris Saint-Germain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, Haaland secured a historic treble with Manchester City, scoring 52 goals across all competitions in his debut season for the Manchester club &#8211; capped off with winning the <a href=\"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/uefa-champions-league-news\/\">Champions League<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Five-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo has been omitted for the first time since 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other notable names listed include; Kylian Mbappe, Rodri, Kevin De Bruyne, Karim Benzema, Bukayo Saka, Andre Onana, Luka Modric,\u00a0 Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>How does Ballon d'Or voting work?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike the Best Awards where coaches, fans and captains do vote, the Ballon d'Or voting is mostly undertaken by journalists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the last edition, 100 journalists from FIFA's top 100 nations selected their top five players from the 30-player shortlist that had previously been decided.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It uses a ranking system and the number of votes are awarded based on that, as seen below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First: Six points<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second: Four points<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Third: Three points<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fourth: Two points<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fifth: One point<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Where will the ceremony take place?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event has been scheduled to take place at Paris\u2019 Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Ch\u00e2telet on Monday, October 30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The venue is a theatre and opera house, located in the place du Ch\u00e2telet in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. It has a capacity of 2,500.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is expected that the ceremony will get underway at 20:00 UK time although that is subject to change.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria national football team fans are excited about the 2023 Ballon d\u2019Or ceremony. This is because the Super Eagles and Super Falcons are ably represented by two of the best to have ever represented the country. Victor Osimhen and Asisat Oshoala are nominees for the award, making Nigeria the first African country to present a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":977,"featured_media":128745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no"},"categories":[25436,1],"tags":[27706],"table_tags":[],"acf":[],"modified_by":"Barend Prins","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128743"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146661,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128743\/revisions\/146661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128743"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=128743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}