The most talked about accolade is the Ballon d'Or and the Puskas award which is rewarded for individual brilliance and the best goal scored.
Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo is the only player to have won both individual awards in his playing career.
We will be taking a look at the Ballon d'Or winners from 1997 to 2017 and the Puskas accolade from 2009 to 2018.
Here are Ballon d'Or winners in last 20 years
1997 Ronaldo
1998 Zinedine Zidane
1999 Rivldo
2000 Luis Figo
2001 Michael Owen
2002 Michael Owen
2003 Pavel Nedved
2004 Andriy Shevchenko
2005 Ronaldinho
2006 Fabio Cannavaro
2007 Kaka
2008 Cristiano Ronaldo
2009 Lionel Messi
2010 Lionel Messi
2011 Lionel Messi
2012 Lionel Messi
2013 Cristiano Ronaldo
2014 Cristiano Ronaldo
2015 Lionel Messi
2016 Cristiano Ronaldo
2017 Cristiano Ronaldo
Here are the list of Puskas winners since it was introduced in 2009
2009 Cristiano Ronaldo
2010 Hamit Altintop
2011 Neymar
2012 Miroslav Stoch
2013 Zlatan Ibrahimovic
2014 James Rodriguez
2015 Wendell Lira
2016 Mohd Faiz Subri
2017 Olivier Giroud
2018 Mohamed Salah
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