Every Ballon d'Or winner: Messi, Ronaldo & best player awards from 1956 to 2018
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Luka Modric became the first man not named Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo to win the Ballon d'Or in over a decade this week.
Despite Messi and Ronaldo's recent duopoly on the award there was a time where the winner was changing every year.
Goal takes a look at every winner of the prestigious France Football award, from Stanley Matthews winning the inaugural award in 1956 to Modric's triumph in 2018.
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1956 - Stanley Matthews - Blackpool & England
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1957 - Alfredo Di Stefano - Real Madrid & Spain
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1958 - Raymond Kopa - Real Madrid & France
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1959 - Alfredo Di Stefano - Real Madrid & Spain
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1960 - Luis Suarez - Barcelona & Spain
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1961 - Omar Sivori - Juventus & Italy
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1962- Josef Masopust - Dukla Prague & Czechoslovakia
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1963 - Lev Yashin - Dynamo Moscow & Soviet Union
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1964 - Denis Law - Man Utd & Scotland
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1965 - Eusebio - Benfica & Portugal
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1966 - Bobby Charlton - Man Utd & England
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1967 - Florian Albert - Ferencvaros & Hungary
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1968 - George Best - Man Utd & Northern Ireland
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1969 - Gianni Rivera - AC Milan & Italy
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1970 - Gerd Muller - Bayern Munich & West Germany
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1971 - Johan Cruyff - Ajax & Netherlands
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1972 - Franz Beckenbauer - Bayern Munich & West Germany
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1973 - Johan Cruyff - Barcelona & Netherlands
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1974 - Johan Cruyff - Barcelona & Netherlands
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1975 - Oleg Blokhin - Dynamo Kyiv & Soviet Union
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1976 - Franz Beckenbauer - Bayern Munich & West Germany
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1977 - Allan Simonsen - Borussia Monchengladbach & Denmark
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1978 - Kevin Keegan - Hamburg & England
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1979 - Kevin Keegan - Hamburg & England
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1980 - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge - Bayern Munich & West Germany
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1981 - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge - Bayern Munich & West Germany
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1982 - Paolo Rossi - Juventus & Italy
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1983 - Michel Platini - Juventus & France
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1984 - Michel Platini - Juventus & France
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1985 - Michel Platini - Juventus & France
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1986 - Igor Belanov - Dynamo Kyiv & Soviet Union
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1987 - Ruud Gullit - AC Milan & Netherlands
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1988 - Marco van Basten - AC Milan & Netherlands
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1989 - Marco van Basten - AC Milan & Netherlands
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1990 - Lothar Matthaus - Inter & West Germany
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1991 Jean-Pierre Papin - Marseille & France
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1992 - Marco van Basten - AC Milan & Netherlands
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1993 - Roberto Baggio - Juventus & Italy
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1994 - Hristo Stoichkov - Barcelona & Bulgaria
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1995 - George Weah - AC Milan & Liberia
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1996 - Matthias Sammer - Borussia Dortmund & Germany
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1997 - Ronaldo - Inter & Brazil
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1998 - Zinedine Zidane - Juventus & France
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1999- Rivaldo - Barcelona & Brazil
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2000 - Luis Figo - Real Madrid & Portugal
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2001- Michael Owen - Liverpool & England
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2002 - Ronaldo - Real Madrid & Brazil
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2003 - Pavel Nedved - Juventus & Czech Republic
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2004 - Andriy Shevchenko - AC Milan & Ukraine
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2005 - Ronaldinho - Barcelona & Brazil
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2006 - Fabio Cannavaro - Real Madrid & Italy
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2007 - Kaka - AC Milan & Brazil
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2008 - Cristiano Ronaldo - Man Utd & Portugal
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2009 - Lionel Messi - Barcelona & Argentina
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2010 - Lionel Messi - Barcelona & Argentina
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2011 - Lionel Messi - Barcelona & Argentina
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2012 - Lionel Messi - Barcelona & Argentina
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2013 - Cristiano Ronaldo - Real Madrid & Portugal
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2014 - Cristiano Ronaldo - Real Madrid & Portugal
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2015 - Lionel Messi - Barcelona & Argentina
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2016 - Cristiano Ronaldo - Real Madrid & Portugal
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2017 - Cristiano Ronaldo - Real Madrid & Portugal
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2018 - Luka Modric - Real Madrid & Croatia