The president of Real Madrid Florentino Pérez estimated on Sunday November 24 on the sidelines of the club's general assembly that “the Golden Ball should have gone to a Real Madrid player” and accused UEFA of intervening in the award process.
« Rodri (the winner of the Ballon d'or) is a very great player, and from Madrid to boot. It has nothing to do with him. He deserved a Ballon d'Or, but not this one, the one from last year where he scored the hat-trick (with Manchester City) and scores in the Champions League final. This one had to go to a Real Madrid player,” declared the Madrid president, assuming the decision to boycott the ceremony.
Perez wants the Ballon d'Or to be 'independent'
“Vinicius seemed to be the unanimous choice, but it could very well have been our captain, Dani Carvajal. Or even Jude Bellingham, Euro finalist and author of an exceptional season. It's very difficult to explain.” he assured in front of more than a thousand “socios”.
The Spanish businessman, in open war with world Football authorities and support of the controversial European Super League project, accused UEFA, partner of France Football in organizing the ceremony for the first time this year, to have intervened in the award process:
“They changed the voting system (from 5 players to 10), also the number of points (from 6 to 15) that every journalist can give to every player. […] Without the votes of four countries, Namibia, Uganda, Albania and Finland, Vinicius would have won the Golden Ball. They didn't even give him a point! “, he regretted.
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The influential Merengue president also asked the newspaper The Team and to France Football if it had “a sense” of “to join forces today with UEFA while European clubs are in the middle of the fight to obtain their freedom and free themselves from the monopoly (from UEFA) »and demanded that the Ballon d'or be a trophy ” independent “ and more transparent criteria.
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