PARÍS (AP) — Spain has doubled the Balón de Oro.

Midfielders Rodri Hernández and Aitana Bonmatí won the award for the best football players in the world on Monday.

But Real Madrid, crowned the biggest club of the year in Europe, kept the attention on the gala and a gesture of protest over the result of the male Galardón.

Rodri, aged 28, won the prestigious Premier League premiership award after a spell of brilliance as Manchester City captured a new English Premier League title and was instrumental in helping Spain take part in the Eurocopa was.

As the successor to Lionel Messi, the Argentine presented his men's records with his trophies.

Tanto Messi as Cristiano Ronaldo – winner on 13 occasions between them – was on the list of aspirants before this year, although he has not been there since 2003.

Rodri overtook Vinicius Júnior, Real Madrid's Brazilian attacker, who chose him as his big favorite in recent weeks. England midfielder Jude Bellingham and Spanish side Dani Carvajal, also from Madrid, each crossed the floor.

Nadie del Club Español is present at the gala in the center of Paris. Tampoco lo hizo su tecnico Italiano Carlo Ancelotti, elegido as performer of the year.

“I will evaluate my family, my president, my club, my players and everyone else, Vini and Carvajal,” Ancelotti wrote on Red Social X.

Vinicius also commented on his ex-Twitter: “That’s 10 days if it’s necessary. Ellos no están prepared,” publicly.

In the first period since 1960, a Spanish conquered the Galardón men. The only man to suffer the fall of Luis Suárez.

“There is not a single Victoria who also plays football in Spanish. I rewarded Spanish football, and the players that I did not see, and who acted as Xavi (Hernández), as (Andrés) Iniesta, as Iker (Casillas), as Busi (Sergio Busquets) and others “, he said as he received the Manos Trophy from George Weah, the former award winner.

“No, I don't want to say it, but this is a Spanish footballer and, above all, the figure of the middle center,” he added. “Finally, it is important to improve the visibility of all these mediocre centers that we have had for many years. It is a work that fascinated me even more, but I brought it to light.”

Rodri – First City Hunt to get the award – playing with Muletas. There is a risk of restoring the current time after the anterior cruciate ligament injury with the club I just passed.

“Intento ser la mejor persona every day. Also a book and it is the best of mine. Soja is a very calm person. “Lass lessiones son una parte del deporte,” Rodri remarked.

Bonmati, aged 26, returned to his first prize after leaving Barcelona to win the Spanish League, the Copa del Rey and the League of Campeones. Bonmatí met Alexia Putellas, her teammate at Barça, as she handed over the two titles since she won the female trophy for the first time in 2018. Great to the Norwegian Graham Hansen and the Spanish Salma Paralluelo, with her in Barcelona they monopolize the podio.

“I felt very comfortable being here and recognizing my second Balón de Oro in a row, but when I heard them I didn't want to come alone,” said Bonmatí, who received the main prize from actress Natalie Portman. “I felt very comfortable and was very lucky that I already had great players who developed me further, then I grew and had a better player every day.”

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Emiliano Martínez also won the award for best bow over a season in which he fought with Argentina in the Copa América and was key to Aston Villa – his club in the Liga Premier – who were in the second division La Temporada ranked in the Champions League in 1982-83.

Barça also celebrated the awards for Lamine Yamal as the best sub-21 player and the best women's team. Yamal turned his story into Eurocopa history as the youngest player.

The Frenchman Kylian Mbappé (ex PSG and now in Madrid) and the Englishman Harry Kane (Bayern Munich) compared the price of 52 players at the club with Gerd Mueller – recently with 52 games.

Emma Hayes, who led the United States' Olympic gold medal win, took home the award for best female soccer player.

Spaniard Jenni Hermoso, who has addressed sexism in Spanish football, received the Sócrates Prize for her humanitarian work from National Federation Defense President Luis Rubiales in the final of last year's Women's World Cup.