Actual Madrid president Florentino Perez has reopened the controversy over Rodri’s Ballon d’Or 2024 win by insisting that the award ought to have been gained by one in every of his gamers.
Vinicius Junior was many individuals’s favorite to win the award, owing to an excellent yr that noticed him win a La Liga and Champions League double, however information broke on the day of the ceremony that the Brazilian can be ignored in favour of Rodri.
The 28-year-old turned the first defensive midfielder to win the Ballon d’Or, following a season by which he gained the Premier League with Manchester Metropolis and Euro 2024 with Spain, and completed simply 41 voting factors forward of Vinicius.
Actual Madrid boycotted the ceremony after studying that Vinicius wouldn’t win, failing to ship any participant or membership consultant to the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris.
Rodri himself has publicly declared that he’d have picked Dani Carvajal to win the award over Vinicius, had he not been within the operating, whereas plenty of different journalists from all over the world – who assist resolve who wins the Ballon d’Or – did not even vote the Brazilian into their high ten.
That astonished Perez, who vented in a speech on the membership’s annual meeting that Rodri’s win had come 12 months too late and that the present voting system will not be match for function.
“It was an occasion that UEFA organised for the primary time in historical past with France Soccer and L’Équipe,” Perez stated, quoted by The Athletic’s Mario Cortegana.
“Rodri is a superb participant, he is from Madrid, and he has our affection. He deserved a Ballon d’Or, however not this one. He deserved it the yr earlier than. This yr, the Ballon d’Or ought to have gone to a Actual Madrid participant: Vinicius Jr, or our captain Dani Carvajal, and even Jude Bellingham.
“A few of [the voters] did not even embrace Vinicius within the high 10. Can anybody perceive journalists not pondering Vinicius Jr is without doubt one of the greatest on the earth? No one is aware of who [the journalists] are … The Ballon d’Or needs to be independently organized, and it needs to be within the fingers of people who find themselves acknowledged.”
Perez additionally outlined plans for a possible restructuring of Actual Madrid’s possession, revealing that members will have the ability to vote on whether or not adjustments are wanted so as to assure monetary independence for the membership within the coming years.
“We’re engaged on defending ourselves on assaults on our monetary wealth,” Perez declared. “Our membership ought to have a construction which protects us as an establishment. We’ll do all the pieces needed in order that the membership belongs to its members, in order that no one can take away our monetary belongings.
“I can affirm that we’ll carry a company reorganisation proposal to an meeting, which ensures members are actual house owners of our membership. They wished to remove our earnings to provide it to La Liga.”
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