Hi. Welcome to follow the 2021 Ballon d’Or ceremony live, the first for two years. We await your questions, your remarks, your forecasts and your wits.
What is it about ? From the 2021 Ballon d’Or ceremony. In 2020, the magazine France Football had given up on designating the best player of a season disrupted by the Covid-19. We will know before 10 p.m. the player of the year 2021 and the successor to Lionel Messi, winner in 2019. Other prizes are awarded: the female Golden Ball, the Yachine prize (for the best goalkeeper) the Kopa prize ( for the best player under 21) and the Puskas prize (for the best goal of the season).
When : From 7 p.m.
Where ? Live from the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.
On which channel ? The L’Equipe channel.
Who arbitrates? A jury of 180 journalists from 180 countries.
With who ? Alexandre Pedro in sneakers from the “kop” of Austerlitz, Walid Kachour in a suit from the Châtelet.
What we will probably not talk about? From Gérard Piqué and the Davis Cup
What to read in the meantime?
Lionel Messi, a walker in the service of PSG
Karim Benzema, the former pariah to win back the French public
Robert Lewandowski, Bayern Munich’s lethal weapon
The Golden Ball, between leaks and rumors
