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'I want to be first full-back to win Ballon d'Or'

Liverpool 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'.