Ballon d’Or: Drogba to present Messi with 2023 award

Didier Drogba, a former Chelsea striker, will present Lionel Messi with the 2023 Ballon d’Or award on Monday.

Fabrizio Romano, a football transfer expert, confirmed this on Friday morning.

“Didier Drogba will give Lionel Messi his Ballon d’Or number 8,” Romano wrote in a short video of Drogba, who has already arrived in Paris for the ceremony.

“It will happen on Monday in Paris.”

Messi, who now plays for Inter Miami in the MLS, will become the first footballer outside Europe to win the prize.

It will also be a record-extending eighth time for the 36-year-old.