Barcelona talisman Lionel Messi has credited his team-mates with his Ballon d'Or success over the years as he targets his sixth award.
The Argentinian will be among the front-runners for the gong when it is handed out on December 2 in Paris.
Messi told YouTube channel Otro (h/t Goal's Dejan Kalinic) of the Ballon d'Or: "It is a beautiful recognition and perhaps the most special was the first. It is something that comes from the collective. Without having achieved all the collective successes that we had to achieve, I wouldn't have been able to get these individual awards.