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Did Gary Lineker win a Ballon d’Or?

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Gary Lineker never won the Ballon d’Or. However, he finished as runner-up in the 1986 Ballon d’Or awards after winning the Golden Boot as the top scorer at that year’s FIFA World Cup. He was widely regarded as one of the world’s best forwards of the 1980s and was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2003.