The organisers of the Ballon d’Or award insisted on Monday that “no player or club” is aware of who has received the award, responding to Actual Madrid’s determination to boycott the occasion as a result of they imagine that Vinicius wouldn’t win.
Ballon d’Or trophy (REUTERS)
“All the clubs and players are in the same boat,” a Ballon d’Or supply instructed AFP, declaring the strict confidentiality guidelines laid down for this 2024 version.
Earlier, Actual Madrid had mentioned they are going to avoid the Ballon d’Or ceremony in Paris on Monday as they’re satisfied that their striker Vinicius, the favorite to win the lads’s award, has been snubbed.
The membership instructed AFP it questioned the strategies behind the choice of the Ballon d’Or winner, saying that defender Dani Carvajal, one other of the 30 gamers nominated, had additionally been unfairly ignored.
“If the award criteria doesn’t give it to Vinicius as the winner, then those same criteria should point to Carvajal as the winner,” the membership 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.”
The Ballon d’Or organisers determined to innovate this yr by preserving the winner’s identification a secret till the very finish, to keep away from any leaks to the press.
In earlier years, the winner was revealed a couple of days earlier than the award ceremony.
All of the nominees had been invited to the ceremony in Paris this night.
The absence of the Actual gamers and the membership’s declaration counsel that neither Vinicius, Carvajal nor Jude Bellingham, the architects of the membership’s European triumph, will win the trophy.
That would depart the best way clear for Manchester Metropolis’s Spanish midfielder Rodri, who received Euro 2024 and was named the event’s greatest participant by UEFA.
The Ballon d’Or is awarded by a jury of journalists representing the highest 100 nations within the FIFA rankings.