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Van Basten Wins First Ballon d’Or

Netherlands · Sport / Football. Chronological records from PostgreSQL.

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Van Basten Wins First Ballon d’Or

van Basten, Marco · Milan · Forward

Marco van Basten wins the 1988 Ballon d’Or after spearheading the Netherlands’ European Championship victory, scoring a celebrated volley in the final against the Soviet Union.

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