The pill has still not passed for Real Madrid. Club president Florentino Perez this weekend criticized the system for awarding votes to journalists for the Ballon d'Or. Made up of 100 members, the jury did not award, on October 28, the reward to its player Vinicius Junior announced as the big favorite. The Brazilian was beaten by Spanish international midfielder Rodri (Manchester City).
“There are journalists that no one knows who voted this year. Without the votes of journalists from countries like Uganda, Namibia, Albania and Finland, Vinicius would have won the Golden Ball,” said the president of Real. One of the voters concerned did not fail to respond.
Sheefeni Nicodemus, a Namibian journalist who is one of the only three on the panel not to have placed Vinicius Junior in his Top 10, responded to him this Monday evening in the columns of Cadena Ser, a Spanish media outlet.
“Deep down, I suspect that these are just the words of a frustrated person like Mr. Pérez,” he said bitterly. That is, he believes that the people of my country and the other countries mentioned do not have a meaningful vote because we are inferior people. I just want to know: if I were from one of the major footballing nations and I didn't agree with your opinion, what would your argument be? » To reassure Florentino Perez, Sheefeni Nicodemus had put his Real Madrid teammate Jude Bellingham in the lead…
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