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Ballon d’Or: How much is the trophy worth, what is it made of and everything you need to know
By GhanaSummary Newsroom1 min read
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Between 2010 and 2015, France Football merged the award with FIFA's own World Player of the Year prize, creating the "FIFA Ballon d'Or.
Every time an African name gets mentioned in the conversation, it revives a question that's been open for three decades: when will the continent produce number two?
The trophy starts life as two brass plates, brass being an alloy of copper and zinc that gives it that warm, gold-like shine before any plating happens.
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