No gold but Stephanie Roche’s ‘golazo’ still wows stars at Ballon D’Or

As Stephanie Roche first took her seat in the Kongresshaus in Zurich, she suddenly found herself alongside the 2013 world player of the year — and the man who would claim the Ballon D’Or again last night — but she wasn’t interested in Cristiano Ronaldo’s hopes of lifting it again.

That, after all, was inevitable.

“I asked him was he coming back to [Manchester] United, but he didn’t really answer,” Roche laughed. “We were rushing in to take our seats so it was a last-minute thing.”