Cristiano Ronaldo has been announced as the winner of the 2016 Ballon d Or, taking out the most prestigious individual prize in world football for the fourth time.
Respected publication France Football named the 31-year-old forward as its player of the year on Monday, Ronaldo claiming the accolade ahead of arch-rival Lionel Messi of Barcelona.
Ronaldo enjoyed a glittering 2015-16 season with club and country, lifting the Champions League with Real Madrid and finally ending his wait for international honours, as Portugal triumphed at Euro 2016.
The former Sporting CP player won his first Ballon d Or at Manchester United in 2008, before collecting the prize again at Madrid in 2013 and 2014.
Ballon d or France Football 2016 winner : CRISTIANO RONALDO
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Newly crowned European champions Spain have risen to third in the FIFA world rankings.
The latest rankings were published on Thursday, with World Cup winners Argentina holding on to the top spot following their Copa America triumph.
There were some notable changes to the world rankings after a busy month for football, with Argentina beating Colombia to win the Copa America and Spain defeating England to win Euro 2024.
Euros runners-up England moved up to fourth, leapfrogging Brazil after their underwhelming Copa America campaign.
Venezuela, who reached the Copa America quarter-finals, were the most improved side in the rankings, rising 17 places to 37th.
One of the other big movers were Euros quarter-finalists Turkiye, who jumped 16 places up to 2…
Following Manchester City s 3-1 victory at Swansea City in the FA Cup last Wednesday, Pep Guardiola s side won their 15th successive match.
In doing so, they set a new record for an English top-flight club in all competitions, overtaking the 14-game winning runs of Arsenal and Preston North End in 1987 and 1892, respectively.
They have since extended this streak to 17 after great wins over both Tottenham and Everton in the Premier League.
Back in 2017, it was claimed by some that City had secured 20 wins on the trot, between August 26 and December 3 until they eventually lost 2-1 away at Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League on December 6.
The bone of contention stemmed from the 12th game in this run; a 0-0 draw against Wolves in the EFL Cup, which saw…
If the Buffalo Bills want to fully ascend and be the best team in the AFC, they have to slay their dragon. And Buffalo heads right into the dragon’s lair in Week 5, visiting Arrowhead Stadium to face the Kansas City Chiefs in the spotlight of Sunday Night Football.
The Chiefs got the best of the Bills in both meetings last season, the most recent being a 38-24 triumph in the AFC Championship — a game Buffalo led 9-0 early before falling apart. NFL betting lines have the vengeful Bills listed as 2.5-point underdogs for this primetime showdown.
Here are our free NFL picks and predictions for Bills vs. Chiefs on Sunday, October 10.
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Last NFL season saw a number of historical marks equaled or broken.
T.J. Watt finally brought some legitimacy back to the sack record, equalling Michael Strahan’s 22.5, while Tom Brady re-took the career passing yards record he and Drew Brees had exchanged for a brief period. With the league well into the advent of the passing boom, all sorts of records in NFL history are at threat of falling in any given season.
With the 2022/23 campaign just a few weeks away, we’re taking a look at various NFL records that could fall and milestones that could be reached — and how to take advantage in the betting market.
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Touchdown props are usually among the first prop markets to open for the Super Bowl, and it’s never too early to get on board, find that sweet closing line value, and get ahead of the market.
While you’re trying to wait out the Super Bowl odds for a better line or trying to decide on who will win the Super Bowl MVP, let me give you my three favorite Super Bowl picks for touchdown scorers for the Big Game.
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Ladies and gentlemen, it’s teaser time!
We got back into the winner’s circle last week to bring the season’s record to 4-3, and there’s a lot of great options on the NFL odds board to pair up this week that could get us to 5-3.
Specifically, we have five different NFL Week 8 favorites in the six to 8.5-point range that we can tease down to get inside the key number of three. This is rare territory, but we need to be ultra careful with NFL picks in these spots. There’s very few things worse in sports betting than teasing that favorite down, only to watch them lose outright – hello Eagles in Week 6… and Ravens in Week 3.
I’ll be pairing two of these favorites in my Week 8 teaser, so let’s hope they do…
Matthew Stafford’s return to the Motor City is going to be the storyline that dominates coverage of the Wild Card game between the Los Angeles Rams and Detroit Lions at Ford Field. And while it’s exciting to see Stafford and Jared Goff face off against their former teams in primetime, the rookies taking the field will be just as important despite having no Super Bowl odds experience.
The NFL odds have the Lions as 3-point home favorites, but things could get hairy for the Detroit defense if rookie phenom Puka Nacua gets loose. Luckily for Lions head coach Dan Campbell, he has a pair of electric rookies of his own.
Find out where our best bets lie in our NFL picks and predictions for Rams vs. Lions props on Sunday, January 14. And don’t forget to ch…
The Cincinnati Bengals once again find themselves with an 0-2 record to begin the season. They’ll be looking to pick up their first win of the year on Monday Night Football against the Washington Commanders.
Joe Burrow is the superstar in Cincinnati so we’re going to look his way for some spotlight player props for Monday Night Football.
Read on for my Joe Burrowo odds and player props for Commanders vs. Bengals on Monday, September 23rd.
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