Ada Hegerberg (OL), first Ballon d’Or in history: « Sport is politics »

The Far North knows how to give birth to perfectly solar beings and Ada Hegerberg is proof of this. On this Monday in April, you have to see the Lyon striker arrive at Groupama Stadium with her big smile slung over her shoulder, distributing hugs like chest cushions in training, dressed in daisy jeans that announce the color : this spring 2022 will be that of its rebirth. A return to life and desire after twenty months of purgatory, the fault of a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the knee contracted in January 2020, followed by two fractures of his left tibia. Returning to the field in October, the first female Ballon d’Or in history (2018), 26, begins her reconquest.