BBC · Oct 26, 2024
'I want to be first full-back to win Ballon d'Or'
Image caption, Trent Alexander-Arnold made his Liverpool debut in 2016Liverpool and England's Trent Alexander-Arnold says he wants to be the first full-back to win the Ballon d'Or and be remembered as the "greatest right-back to have played football".
No full-back has won the world player of the year award, which was first presented in 1956.
Alexander-Arnold, 26, said he would chose winning a Ballon d'Or over lifting the World Cup with England.
"I believe I can," Alexander-Arnold, told Sky Sports, external. "I want to be the first full-back to ever do it.
"It's only the morning after you retire that you're able to look in the mirror and say, 'I gave it everything I got'.