The closest race for the Ballon d'Or according to its current system only 28 points decided the competition between Can and Mbappe.
England's Harry Kane, striker of Germany's Bayern Munich, won the Ballon d'Or race for the best player in the world, with a margin of only 28 points over France's Kylian Mbappe, the smallest margin since the adoption of the current voting system, according to the detailed results published by France Football magazine on Friday. Kane collected 1,055 points compared to Mbappe's 1,027, becoming the first English player to win the award since Michael Owen in 2001, while Spain's Lamin Jamal came third.