Win Ballon D'Or Messi Apparently Didn't Get A Gift From The Organizer, Here's The Appreciation Scheme

Argentina and Inter Miami national team player Lionel Messi won the 2023 Ballon d'Or. (Photo: Twitter/@ballondor)

JAKARTA - Lionel Messi won the prestigious individual award, the 8th Ballon d'Or in his career history. From that award, Messi received a gold ball trophy as proof of his performance on green grass.

Like an award event, the Ballon d'Or does provide trophies as a symbol of victory in the nominees. But unlike the awards that generally give prizes to winners, the Ballon d'Or is the opposite.

For this award, the organizers did not give prize money directly to the winners. So what is the appreciation scheme that applies to the Ballon d'Or?

Quoted from Sportskeeda, Tuesday, October 31, it was discovered that the winner of the Ballon d'Or only got a replica of the gold ball. Although the material made does not come from gold entirely, the trophy is quite valuable.

The trophy in the form of a gold ball weighing seven kilograms was made with the main ingredients of two kilograms of wax. Meanwhile, the five kilograms of waste are the weight of coating materials made of 18 carat gold at the cost of making up to 3 thousand euros (IDR 50.6 million).

For a gift of appreciation in the form of money, it is actually given by a sponsor or club instead of the Ballon d'Or. This is because the Ballon d'Or is a prestigious award, sponsor or club from players who won the Ballon d'Or will give appreciation in the form of additional bonuses.

So far, the awarding of bonuses to players who won the Ballon d'Or award is usually listed in the contract.

Looking back, the number of bonuses given by the sponsor for the Ballon d'Or winner was not kidding. Luka Modric once felt the bonus winner of the Ballon d'Or as much as 800 thousand euros (Rp135 million).

Modric received the appreciation money from Nike as the main sponsor. This moment occurred when this Croatian player won the Ballon d'Or in the 2018 edition.

Meanwhile, Karim Benzema, who won the Ballon d'Or last year, received a 2 million euro bonus from his club at that time, Real Madrid.

On the other hand, Cristiano Ronaldo as one of the star players also has a bonus clause of 4 million euros (Rp67 billion) if he wins the Ballon d'Or, as does Karim Benzema.

For the bonus that Lionel Messi got from his victory in the Ballon d'Or award, until now it has not been released either about the amount or source that gave it.