Oct 29, 2024 10:46 AM IST
Followers had been satisfied that Ballon d’Or’s publish on Actual Madrid was a refined dig at Vinicius Jr. over the membership’s boycott act
Regardless of their protest, Actual Madrid took the membership honours on the 2024 Ballon d’Or ceremony in Paris on Monday. Madrid, who received La Liga and the Champions League final season, had been named the lads’s crew of the yr, however there have been no representatives from the membership to take the award. Ballon d’Or official social media deal with later tweeted on Madrid’s triumph, however followers reckoned that the organisers took a dig at membership striker Vinicius Junior.
Manchester Metropolis’s Spanish midfielder Rodri receives the Ballon d’Or award in entrance of second-placed Actual Madrid’s Brazilian ahead Vinicius Junior throughout the 2024 Ballon d’Or France Soccer award ceremony on the Theatre du Chatelet(AFP)
Though, the organisers, in a contemporary transfer for the 2024 version of the occasion, seemed to maintain the winner’s identify secret till the tip of the night time, Actual Madrid turned conscious the Vinicius, the bookmakers’ favorite to win the lads’s award, had been snubbed, with Manchester Metropolis and Spain midfielder Rodri slated to win the Ballon d’Or.
Therefore, the Madrid delegation, comprising eight nominees throughout all awards, who reportedly discovered about Rodri’s win because the nominees had been gathering for the glitzy ceremony at a Paris theatre, boycotted the occasion.
Nevertheless, it appeared Ballon d’Or later took a dig on the Spanish giants as they lower Vinicius Jr’s picture from the publish on Actual Madrid’s ‘Males’s crew of the Yr’ award. The publish didn’t go down effectively with followers as they shamed the organisers.
Actual Madrid concern assertion over boycott act
The membership instructed AFP that they weren’t pleased with the tactic utilized by the organisers to choose the Ballon d’Or winner as they reckoned that their defender Dani Carvajal, who was additionally on the 30-player nomination record, was unfairly missed. They even accused France Soccer and UEFA of “disrespecting” the membership.
“If the award criteria doesn’t give it to Vinicius as the winner, then those same criteria should point to Carvajal as the winner,” Actual Madrid instructed AFP.
“As this was not the case, it is clear that Ballon d’Or-UEFA does not respect Real Madrid. And Real Madrid does not go where it is not respected.”
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