“The Ballon d’Or ceases to exist for us.” A tough and unequivocal stance, that real Madriddelivered to the organizers of the Ballon d’Or when the Spanish club understood that Vinicius Junior he would not have won the coveted prize. THE Blancos they decided to skip the ceremony at the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris, where Rodri was awarded the award instead.
Real Madrid’s “defeat” makes a lot of noise, almost as much as the one suffered a few hours earlier in the Classic. The victory of the Brazilian born in 2000 seemed obvious but in the end it came as a sensational joke, given that three of Carlo Ancelotti’s players ranked behind the Spanish midfielder. The ranking, perhaps, explains everything, because there could have been a “dispersion of votes” (as declared by the deputy director of France Football) which somehow favored the Manchester City player.
Vinicius welcomed the solidarity of the Madrid club and his teammates. In the afternoon he broke the silence on social media by publishing a group photo and one word, “together”, which says it all. Also Clarence Seedorf And Guti they speak more or less openly about “conspiracy”, while as usual Toni Kroos is sharp: to the question “what would you change about the ranking?”, the German replied “Where do we start?”. In short, the topic is still hot and will certainly be so in the next few days, when it will be discussed at the press conference.
Below is the complete ranking:
1st Rodri (Manchester City)
2nd Vinicius Junior (Real Madrid)
3rd Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid)
4th Dani Carvajal (Real Madrid)
5th Erling Haaland (Manchester City)
6th Kylian Mbappe (PSG / Real Madrid)
7th Lautaro Martinez (Inter)
8th Lamine Yamal (Barcelona)
9th Toni Kroos (Real Madrid)
10th Harry Kane (Bayern Munich)
11th Phil Foden (Manchester City)
12th Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen)
13th Dani Olmo (Leipzig / Barcelona)
14th Ademola Lookman (Atalanta)
15th Nico Williams (Athletic)
16th Granit Xhaka (Bayer Leverkusen)
17th Federico Valverde (Real Madrid)
18th Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa)
19th Martin Odegaard (Arsenal)
20th Hakan Calhanoglu (Inter)
21st Bukayo Saka (Arsenal)
22nd Antonio Rudiger (Real Madrid)
23rd Ruben Dias (Manchester City)
24th William Saliba (Arsenal)
25th Cole Palmer (Manchester City, Chelsea)
26th Declan Rice (Arsenal)
27th Vitinha (PSG)
28th Alejandro Grimaldo (Bayer Leverkusen)
29th Artem Dovbyk (Girona / Rome)
29th Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund / Rome)