The Ballon d'Or is an annual football award that honors the male player deemed to have performed the best over the previous year, based on voting by football journalists.

"We have players who can win the Ballon d'Or award, but we don't think about it and we don't discuss it," Vermaelen told journalists, adding that in his opinion Thibaut Courtois is the best goalkeeper at the FIFA World Cup in Russia.

Belgium beat five-time champions Brazil 2-1 in Kazan on Friday to qualify for the World Cup semi-finals, where they will face the 1998 winners France at St. Petersburg Stadium on Tuesday.

The World Cup kicked off on June 14 and will continue until July 15, with the final set to be played at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium.