Sentence examples for four ballon from inspiring English sources

With over 300 goals for Barcelona, four Ballon d'or awards, six La Liga titles and three Champions League winners' medals to his name, Lionel Messi has arguably already cemented his place among the sport's all-time greats.

Let's take a quick look through the highlights: six La Liga titles, three Champions Leagues, three European Golden Shoes, and no less than four Ballons d'Or, won one after the other in four years of masterful dominance with Barcelona.

For a ballerina she had pretty much zero ballon at this point.

Ukraine has produced three Ballon d'Or winners – Oleh Blokhin in 1975, Igor Belanov in 1986 and Shevchenko in 2004.

Captained by Zinedine Zidane, the World team has won eight World Cups, three European Championships, the Champions League 11 times and has seven Ballon d'Or trophies between them - Carlo Ancelotti is the manager for the visitors.

The 22-year-old attended the Ballon d'Or ceremony on Monday where he was named in the FifPro World XI of the year, while he also posed for pictures with all three Ballon d'Or nominees in Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and eventual winner Lionel Messi.

In the nineteen-nineties, six of the ten Ballon d'Or winners the prize given for the year's best footballer in Europe played for Serie A clubs, and the league produced a Champions League finalist for seven straight years, from 1991 to 1998.

In the nineteen-nineties, six of the ten Ballon d'Or winners — the prize given for the year's best footballer in Europe — played for Serie A clubs, and the league produced a Champions League finalist for seven straight years, from 1991 to 1998.

He wins more challenges than the other two Ballon d'Or finalists (55%, compared to Messi's 53% and Ribery's 46%) and his competitiveness shows as he commits more fouls than either (57 in 2013, next to Ribery's 54 and Messi's 15).

By winning the FIFA Ballon d'Or again, Messi become the fourth player to win three Ballons d'Or, after Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini and Marco van Basten and the second player to win three consecutive Ballons d'Or, after Michel Platini (although two of his Ballons d'Or are FIFA Ballons d'Or, which he won consecutively).

He has also won a host of individual honours including four consecutive Ballon d'Ors, the trophy given to the world's best player, between 2009 and 2012.