← Events of the day
Ballon d’Or: Luis de la Fuente named coach of the year; Unai Simon wins best goalkeeper award
🇮🇳 India · Sport · 13 h ago
0 / 0 / 9
mentions in 1 / 6 / 24 h
0×
pace of the last 6 h vs the previous 18
26.10 08:47 UTC
first publication
Confirmed facts
Each fact is a sentence from a source that at least two independent outlets report.
Ballon d'Or 2026 Nominees: Full List of Nominees, Awards List, Players to Watch
Lionel Messi holds the record with eight wins, while Cristiano Ronaldo has won the award five times.
Get latest articles and stories on Sports at LatestLY. Spain goalkeeper Unai Simon was named Men's Goalkeeper of the Year at the 2026 Ballon d'Or awards ceremony following his impressive performances in the FIFA World Cup, where he played a key role in the national team's title-winning campaign.
Sports News | Ballon D'Or 2026: Spain's World Cup-winning Coach Luis De La Fuente Named Best Men's Coach
He won in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021 and 2023.
Full evidence via the API
Facts with links, quotes, contradictions, unknowns, changes between versions and a suggested text length. On the Business plan there is a refined layer: Claude turns the sources into atomic facts with verbatim quotes and a short summary.
How it works
Pricing
Sources
The same group number means one site, one wire agency or a near-verbatim reprint: such articles count as one independent source.
Report an error