🏆 Ballon d'OneFootball: Who else in 2nd place? | OneFootball

Welcome to the 2024 Ballon d'OneFootball.

We have been counting down our top 10 men's footballers in the world right now, before revealing the winner on 27 July 2024.

You can read here how we voted for this year's award.

And here is our list so far.

Today we continue with...

2nd: Jude Bellingham, Real Madrid and England

Goals in 2023/24: 27

Assists in 2023/24: 15

Trophies won in 2023/24: Champions League, LaLiga title, Supercopa de España

Highest ranking among voters: FR 🇫🇷 (1st)

Why were they nominated?

Because in just 12 short months, Bellingham went from one of the best talents in the game at Borussia Dortmund to one of the best players in the game period following his blockbuster (and dare we say bargain) €103m move to Real Madrid.

He took Spanish football by storm in his debut campaign, winning LaLiga's Player of the Season en route to the title and scooping Champions League Young Player of the Season on the way to winning that too.

The midfielder does it all and is truly a man for the big moment, as evidenced most recently by his Roy of the Rovers heroics with England on the brink at EURO 2024. It is important to remind yourself he is just 21.

As he says himself: 'Who else?'

Best moment since the start of 2023/24?

Well, allow us to pick two. After all, they are essentially the same moment.

Bellingham endeared himself to Real supporters in his maiden year in Madrid by contributing not one but two of the most dramatic Clásico winners in recent memory.

With the score level at injury-time in both LaLiga games against Barcelona this season, the Englishman came to the fore, proving his flair for the dramatic and sense of occasion, with last gasp winners in both.