File photograph of Actual Madrid footballer Vinicius Junior© AFP
Actual Madrid mentioned they may steer clear of the Ballon d’Or ceremony in Paris on Monday as they’re satisfied that their striker Vinicius, the favorite to win the boys’s award, has been snubbed. The membership advised AFP it questioned the strategies behind the choice of the Ballon d’Or winner, saying that defender Dani Carvajal, one other of the 30 gamers nominated, had additionally been unfairly ignored. “If the award standards does not give it to Vinicius because the winner, then those self same standards ought to level to Carvajal because the winner,” the membership advised AFP. “As this was not the case, it’s clear that Ballon d’Or-UEFA doesn’t respect Actual Madrid. And Actual Madrid doesn’t go the place it isn’t revered.”
The Ballon d’Or organisers determined to innovate this 12 months by retaining the winner’s identification a secret till the very finish, to keep away from any leaks to the press.
In earlier years, the winner was revealed a couple of days earlier than the award ceremony.
All of the nominees have been invited to the ceremony in Paris this night.
The absence of the Actual gamers and the membership’s declaration recommend that neither Vinicius, Carvajal nor Jude Bellingham, the architects of the membership’s European triumph, will win the trophy.
That might go away the best way clear for Manchester Metropolis’s Spanish midfielder Rodri, who received Euro 2024 and was named the match’s greatest participant by UEFA.
The Ballon d’Or is awarded by a jury of journalists representing the highest 100 nations within the FIFA rankings.
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