Will the 2026 Ballon d'Or nominees be announced before August 1, 2026?

Why: No supplied source contains an official list or a news item showing the 2026 Ballon d'Or nominees had been published before 2026-08-01. The official organiser (UEFA) in its 2026 ceremony announcement stated that "the list of nominees will be communicated in due course" (UEFA article). A contemporaneous report (TopMercato, 2026-07-23) explicitly says the 30 nominees are scheduled to be announced in early September. Taken together (official wording that nominees would come later, plus media reporting an early-September announcement), the evidence supplied indicates the official nominees announcement had not been made before 2026-08-01.