Ballon d'Or 2026: Organisers reveal narrow vote margin Kane had over Mbappé

Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane's triumph borderline implicit Kylian Mbappé successful the 2026 Ballon d'Or voting was exceptionally narrow, surpassing adjacent the 41-point differential that separated Rodri and Vinícius Júnior successful 2024.

Vincent Garcia, the exertion of France Football who oversees the prestigious award, disclosed this accusation pursuing the presumption of the grant to the English guardant astatine a ceremonial held successful London connected Monday.

During an interrogation with L'Équipe aft Monday evening's lawsuit astatine the London Palladium, Garcia emphasized that the contention betwixt the starring 2 contenders was determined by an extraordinarily minimal constituent differential.

France Football volition unveil the broad voting results connected Saturday.

Garcia said, “The points spread betwixt Kane and Mbappé was smaller than the spread betwixt Rodri and Vinícius Júnior successful 2024, which was 41 points, and that was already a precise constrictive borderline astatine the time.

“Kylian led the contention for a agelong time, but Harry Kane came backmost into contention, and successful the end, it was decided by a very, precise tiny fig of points.”

The 33-year-old Kane secured the accolade for the archetypal clip pursuing an awesome tally of 73 goals crossed 65 appearance...