There is a soccer player named Cristiano Ronaldo.
The Ballon d'Or ( [ balɔ̃ dɔʁ ] ; `` Golden Ball '' ) , is an annual association football award presented by France Football . Conceived by sports writer Gabriel Hanot , the Ballon d'Or award honours the male player deemed to have performed the best over the previous year , based on voting by football journalists . Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro , ( [ kɾiʃ ` tjɐnu ʁuˈnaɫdu ] , born 5 February 1985 ) is a Portuguese professional footballer for Spanish club Real Madrid and the Portugal national team . In 2008 , he won his first Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awards . The FIFA World Player of the Year was an association football award presented annually by the sport 's governing body , FIFA , since 1991 .