1959 Ballon D'Or
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The 1959 Ballon d'Or, given to the best
football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from
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member countries, was awarded to
Alfredo Di Stéfano Alfredo Stéfano Di Stéfano Laulhé (; 4 July 1926 – 7 July 2014) was an Argentine professional footballer and coach who played as a forward, widely regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time. Nicknamed "Saeta Rubia" ("Blond A ...
on 15 December 1959. It was the second time that Di Stéfano won the award.


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''France Football'' Official Ballon d'Or page
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1958–59 in European football