“I was robbed of the Golden Ball too”, Sneijder sees himself in Vinicius

The 2024 Ballon d'or will continue to be (a lot) talked about. While the Spaniard Rodri won the supreme individual award last Monday in Paris, many observers and football followers continue to point out that it is the Brazilian striker of Real Madrid Vinicius Jr who should have been the winner .

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A situation that Wesley Sneijder knows well. The former Inter Milan midfielder, author of an exceptional season in 2010 with a hat-trick under José Mourinho, winning the Serie A, the Champions League and the Italian Cup, all punctuated of a World Cup final with the Dutch selection, has still not digested the coronation of Lionel Messi. The Batavian, now retired, did not even finish on the podium that year.

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“I too was robbed of the Ballon d’Or”he said this week during an advertising event. 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.”said the former Real player, visibly still frustrated, in comments reported by the Daily Mail .