If Vinicius Junior believes he was robbed of the 2024 Ballon d'Or, ultimately won by the Spaniard Rodri, other great players also claim to have been wronged, like Wesley Sneijder in 2010.
Almost every year, the Ballon d'Or is debated. If Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo have not stolen anything over the last 15 years, knowing that they are among the best players in the history of football, certain coronations of the Argentinian or the Portuguese still cause a lot of ink to flow . Like Vinicius Junior, who thought he deserved the last Ballon d'Or in place of the Spaniard Rodri, Wesley Sneijder also believes that he should have won the most famous individual award in 2010. It must be said that that year, the attacking midfielder won the Serie A, the Champions League and the Italian Cup under the jersey of José Mourinho's Inter Milan. The Dutchman also reached the World Cup final with his country, losing to Spain's Iniesta and Xavi, who completed the Ballon d'Or podium behind Messi. A bitter failure that Sneijder still cannot digest…
“I was also robbed of the Ballon d’Or”
“I was also robbed of the Ballon d’Or. Honestly, I'm glad people are still talking about it in 2024. People keep telling me, “Wesley, you got robbed in 2010!” Individual awards are nice, but trophies won as a team, like lifting the Champions League, all that has more value than winning that Ballon d'Or.”launched Sneijder in the columns of the Daily Mail. Like Sneijder in 2010 or Vinicius in 2024, other great players have missed out on the greatest coronation of their career. In 2018, Antoine Griezmann would not have stolen the trophy, for example, rather than Modric, after the world coronation of the France team. The same for Franck Ribéry in 2013, when the Frenchman fell on Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi despite his stratospheric season with Bayern Munich. Regardless, choices were made and some players live with regrets, but that is also part of the great story of the Ballon d'Or.
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