Kane, Mbappé and the cost of star power

What BBN said about it

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHarry Kane has won the Ballon d'Or, beating Kylian Mbappé by twenty-eight points, one thousand fifty-five to one thousand twenty-seven, according to ESPN.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistKane is the first English winner in twenty-five years, and the first Bayern Munich player to take it since Karl-Heinz Rummenigge in nineteen eighty-one.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistHe got forty first-place votes to Mbappé's twenty-three.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTribuna says three journalists decided it. Rank Mbappé first and he gains forty-five extra points.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThree people. I've seen bigger swings from one cloud over Leeds.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentClip it.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistAnd the voters are the top hundred nations, each picking ten players. Somewhere in there, a man ranked Mbappé second and went to bed.