🇫🇷🏆 Ballon d’Or: the French players with the most top 10 finishes

🇫🇷🏆 Ballon d’Or: the French players with the most top 10 finishes This Monday, October 26, Harry Kane was named the winner of the 70th Ballon d'Or. The first Englishman to win it since Michael Owen in 2001. But this time, the focus is on the top 10. The French players featured include Ousmane Dembélé, Kylian Mbappé and Michael Olise. By finishing in second place, Kylian Mbappé made history at the awards ceremony. As Transfertmarkt reveals, the France international has finished in the top 10 in each of the last nine editions. Only Michel Platini can match that record. The Euro 1984 winner also won the award three times. Kylian Mbappé is the only French player to achieve this feat without ever winning the Ballon d'Or. By comparison, Zinedine Zidane finished in the top 10 seven times (with one Ballon d'Or win), as did Thierry Henry. Outside the top three is Raymond Kopa (one win), with five top-10 finishes. Marcel Desailly featured three times. The best ratios belong to Karim Benzema, Jean-Pierre Papin and Ousmane Dembélé: two top-10 finishes and one Ballon d'Or win each. Ngolo Kanté, Antoine Griezmann, Eric Cantona and Alain Giresse each featured in the top 10 twice. Which of these players do you think should have won the Ballon d'Or? Let us know in the comments! This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.