Last 10 different winners of the Ballon d'Or to have won it whilst playing for an Italian club

We take a look at the last 10 different winners of the Ballon d'Or to have won it whilst playing for an Italian club.

• Kaka

Kaka's Ballon d'or triumph in 2007 was the last time that a player representing a team in Serie A won the honour.

Becoming the eighth AC Milan player to win the award, the Brazilian enjoyed a remarkable campaign with the Italian side, winning the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League as the competition's top goalscorer, finding the net on 10 occasions.

• Andriy Shevchenko

Andriy Shevchenko beat Barcelona pair Deco and Ronaldinho to top spot in the Ballon d'Or rankings in 2004, earning 175 points.

AC Milan were unable to win the UEFA Champions League in the 2003/04 campaign, but they were Serie A champions, with Shevchenko's concluding the season as the league's highest goalscorer with 24.

• Pavel Nedved

Just a year prior to Shevchenko's Ballon d'Or success, it was Juventus' Pavel Nedved who won the competition in 2003.

While many believed Thierry Henry was unfortunate not to be crowned the world's best player that year, Nedved's contribution to Juve's Serie A and Supercoppa Italiana winning campaign was seemingly enough to win the award.

• Zinedine Zidane

Zinedine Zidane was the winner of the 1998 Ballon d'Or whilst playing for Juventus, but you could argue it was his contributions during France's World Cup triumph that led to the landslide in the voting.

The Frenchman scored twice in his nation's 3-0 World Cup final victory against Brazil, adding to the Serie A title that he won at club level in the 1997/98 term.

• Ronaldo

Arguably one of the greatest centre forwards we've seen grace the sport, it would have been a major shock had Ronaldo not have won at least one Ballon d'Or during his decorated career.

While the Brazilian was handed the award as an Inter Milan player, it was at Barcelona where he gained his plaudits, before joining Inter for a then world record fee of $27 million.

• George Weah

George Weah became the first and only African player to win the Ballon d'Or in 1995. Performances across both Paris Saint-Germain and AC Milan saw him awarded football’s most prestigious individual honour.

Despite Weah and PSG crashing out of the UEFA Champions League in the semi-finals, he was the competition's highest scorer with seven goals, proving his class on Europe's biggest stage.

• Roberto Baggio

A remarkable 1992/93 campaign saw Roberto Baggio record 41 goal contributions in 43 games for Juventus across all competitions, helping the Old Lady on their way to a third UEFA Cup trophy in the meantime.

• Marco van Basten

Marco van Basten won the award for a third time in 1992, joined by Hristo Stoichkov and fellow Dutchman Dennis Bergkamp in the top three.

Van Basten scored 25 times and registered 11 assists in a Serie A winning term for Milan.

• Lothar Matthaus

Lothar Matthaus is arguably amongst the best ever players not to win the UEFA Champions League, but his class was rewarded with the Ballon d'Or in 1990.

Despite failing to win a trophy with Inter in 1990, he was industrious when captaining Germany to World Cup triumph.

• Ruud Gullit

1987 was a phenomenal year for Ruud Gullit, winning the Eredivisie with PSV before being rewarded with a move to Italian giants AC Milan.

He would kick off his Milan career in style, being awarded the Ballon d'Or in December and going on to win the Serie A later that term.

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