{"id":16978,"date":"2026-11-13T14:45:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T14:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/kane-takes-ballon-dor-as-englands-wait-finally-ends\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T14:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T14:45:47","slug":"kane-takes-ballon-dor-as-englands-wait-finally-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/kane-takes-ballon-dor-as-englands-wait-finally-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Kane takes Ballon d\u2019Or as England\u2019s wait finally ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Kane-takes-Ballon-dOr-as-Englands-wait-finally-ends.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Kane takes Ballon d\u2019Or as England\u2019s wait finally ends\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Kane-takes-Ballon-dOr-as-Englands-wait-finally-ends.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-32-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-32-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-32-1536x768.png 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-32.png 1774w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twenty-five years after Michael Owen won it, the men\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or belongs to an Englishman again. Harry Kane picked up the 2026 award at the London Palladium on 26 October, with 73 goals behind his claim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Real Madrid\u2019s Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 finished second. Kane also left the ceremony with the Gerd M\u00fcller Trophy for the leading men\u2019s goalscorer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Comparing a Ballon d\u2019Or forecast through <a href=\"https:\/\/1xbet.ss\/en\">1xbet South Sudan<\/a> with a top-scorer selection involves two different results: one comes from a jury, the other from a goal count. Kane collected both honours in London, but they remain separate contests.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-the-numbers-behind-the-london-announcement\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The numbers behind the London announcement<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The goals came in two shirts. England Football\u2019s account of the season separates his Bayern appearances from his international ones:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Team<\/td>\n<td>Appearances<\/td>\n<td>Goals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bayern Munich, all competitions<\/td>\n<td>51<\/td>\n<td>61<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>England, all matches<\/td>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Combined<\/td>\n<td>65<\/td>\n<td>73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The league supplied 36 goals in 31 appearances. Kane finished top of the Bundesliga scorers again, for the third year running. He added ten in the DFB-Pokal and one in the Supercup; his European haul was 14 as Bayern went as far as the Champions League semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Competition names also matter to <a href=\"https:\/\/1xbet.ss\/en\/line\">sports betting in South Sudan<\/a>, since Kane\u2019s 61 club goals and 36 Bundesliga goals answer different questions. The Champions League figure is part of his club total, rather than an extra contribution to add on top.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For England, six goals came in seven World Cup finals appearances. The national side finished third, its best placing since the 1966 victory. The remaining international goals in his season record came in qualifying and friendlies. Five came in five World Cup qualifiers, with another in two international friendly appearances, giving him 12 goals in 14 England outings overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bayern\u2019s three domestic trophies give the goals some context, too. They kept the league title and lifted the DFB-Pokal, after winning the Franz Beckenbauer Supercup. The Ballon d\u2019Or case included a team collecting silverware while Kane supplied the finishing.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-owen-s-wait-ends-and-bayern-s-too\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Owen\u2019s wait ends, and Bayern\u2019s too<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kane becomes the fifth English player to receive the Ballon d\u2019Or. The four names before him cover very different chapters of the award:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1956: Stanley Matthews took the first award.<\/li>\n<li>1966: Bobby Charlton added it to his World Cup year.<\/li>\n<li>1978 and 1979: Kevin Keegan won twice with Hamburg.<\/li>\n<li>2001: Michael Owen brought it to Liverpool.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Owen\u2019s victory had remained the last English success for a quarter of a century. Kane\u2019s award adds another name to that short list rather than another win for a previous recipient.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bayern had been waiting even longer. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge was their last winner, back in 1981. The Munich line now runs from Gerd M\u00fcller and Franz Beckenbauer through Rummenigge to Kane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was recognition for another current Bayern player near the top of the voting, with Michael Olise finishing ninth. Kane\u2019s own award nevertheless ends a 45-year gap for the club, stretching well beyond the careers of its present squad.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-a-vote-that-included-the-world-cup\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">A vote that included the World Cup<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The judging did not stop when the club season ended. Under the 2026 rules, performances counted from 3 August 2025 through 19 July 2026. The World Cup was inside that window. The rules provide for an international jury of specialist journalists, with one representative from each of the top 100 countries in the relevant men\u2019s FIFA rankings. Each juror ranks ten players from a 30-man shortlist. A juror\u2019s first pick gets 15 points. Second is worth 12, with smaller totals for the remaining eight places.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Individual performances take priority under the published criteria. Titles count as well, and the rules ask the jury to consider class and fair play. Adding up the ballots produces the winner. That process explains why a scoring chart and an awards result can put different players first. In the Champions League scoring race, Kane finished with 14 and Mbapp\u00e9 with 15. The Ballon d\u2019Or ballot put them in the reverse order. An award-winner selection and a Champions League top-scorer selection would therefore concern different winning names for this season.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-two-honours-on-the-same-evening\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Two honours on the same evening<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Gerd M\u00fcller Trophy was Kane\u2019s second, after he shared it with Mbapp\u00e9 in 2024. His European Golden Shoe had already been secured through his Bundesliga scoring: 36 league goals carried 72 points in that award\u2019s calculation. The Golden Shoe was also his second, having previously taken it in 2023\/24. Bayern\u2019s May announcement placed Erling Haaland second on 54 points and Mbapp\u00e9 third on 50. Those were league-scoring points, a different measure from the journalists\u2019 ballots used for the Ballon d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The London setting had a historical purpose. The ceremony marked the Ballon d\u2019Or\u2019s 70th anniversary and paid tribute to Matthews, its first winner. France Football\u2019s award has been co-organised with UEFA since 2024. England coach Thomas Tuchel congratulated his captain, saying he was delighted that Kane\u2019s performances had received formal recognition. At Bayern, the response also looked towards the trophy\u2019s return to Munich. Kane told the audience: \u201cIt\u2019s an honour to play for this club and I\u2019m glad to be bringing this trophy back to Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/11\/kane-takes-ballon-dor-as-englands-wait-finally-ends\/\">Kane takes Ballon d\u2019Or as England\u2019s wait finally ends<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five years after Michael Owen won it, the men\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or belongs to an Englishman again. 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