the three voters who did not respect Vinicius Jr.

The French magazine France Football detailed the voters' choices for the 2024 Ballon d'or, won by Rodri ahead of Vinicius Jr.

With the publication of the special Ballon d'or issue of France Football, we finally fully understand Rodri's victory of 41 small points ahead of Vinicius Jr., at least from a mathematical point of view. As imagined by some, three voters made the very particular choice to leave Vinicius Jr. out of their top 10 for the Ballon d'Or. Rodri has been forgotten five times from the top 10.

Ballon d’or votes, a big catch-all

Between the journalist from Nigeria who voted for Lookman first or the one from South Korea who chose a top 4 without a Real Madrid player, some votes always lead to confusion. But, even more incomprehensible, the three journalists from Finland, Namibia and El Salvador completely left Vinicius Jr. in the lurch.

The Finnish journalist chose a Rodri, Haaland and Bellingham podium, while preferring Wirtz or Rice to Vinicius Jr. In Namibia, the journalist gave his vote to Bellingham first while completely forgetting Vinicius Jr. from his top 10. Finally, in Salvador, it was the lack of fair play and class of Vinicius Jr., winner of the Socrates Prize recently, which made him prefer Dani Olmo or Çalhanoğlu to Vinicius Jr.

Guillaume Pomade