The Ballon d’Or, awarded annually to the world’s best footballer, will not be held in 2020 because of the “lack of a sufficiently level playing field” caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Barcelona’s Lionel Messi won the trophy in the men’s category last year, while US striker Megan Rapinoe won the women’s category.
Organisers France Football said the awarding of the prize, which has been given out every year since 1956, would be “not worthy” of the trophy’s history.
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The organizers added: “We did not want to put an indelible asterisk on the prize list as ‘a trophy won in exceptional circumstances due to the health crisis of COVID-19’.
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