Italy duo Sofia Cantore and Cristiana Girelli have had their rankings revealed for the 2025 Ladies’s Ballon d’Or.
Cantore, who left Juventus to hitch NWSL aspect Washington Spirit in June, . The 25-year-old turned the primary ever Italian to ever signal a contract within the US prime flight for ladies’s soccer after a powerful 2024-25 season that noticed her named Serie A finest ahead and within the league’s Crew of the 12 months.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – JULY 22: Sofia Cantore of Italy passes the ball in the course of the UEFA Ladies’s EURO 2025 Semi-Closing match between England and Italy at Stade de Geneve on July 22, 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photograph by Eddie Keogh/Getty Photos)
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The Italian ahead spent eight years at Juventus, the place she performed 71 league video games and scored 22 objectives.
Juventus ahead Girelli ranks sixteenth in Ladies’s Ballon d’Or
, in the meantime, sixteenth place on this 12 months’s award.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – JULY 16: Ladies’s Ballon d’Or nominee Cristiana Girelli of Italy celebrates scoring her crew’s second aim in the course of the UEFA Ladies’s EURO 2025 Quarter-Closing match between Norway and Italy at Stade de Geneve on July 16, 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photograph by Charlotte Wilson/Getty Photos)
The 35-year-old has received nearly the whole lot there may be to win since singing for Juventus in 2018. Since then, she has scored 101 objectives in Ladies’s Serie A, lifting the trophy 5 instances with the Bianconeri.
Girelli has additionally scored 61 instances in 122 appearances for the Italian nationwide crew, together with three on the 12 months’s Ladies’s Euros.