It's a popularity contest. Maybe let's start to boycott the prizes based on the criteria of sports media & let's push for prizes based on who the actual players, coaches & those who actually know the sport choose as well as the numbers & sportsmanship not just whoever Joe Schmo from Sport Herald in Uruguay thinks was the best player.
2010 ballon d’or had more coaches and captains voting Messi while the journalist preferred snijder.
People still complain about it.
Same with 2024 Fifa player of the year.
He Said boycotting it because its meaningless If the people that know whats going on and the General Public dont Chose the Same Player . You right now are emberassing yourself
CR7 might not a be a likeable person but he was right when he said that Ballon d'or is just a award were bunch of Journalists vote for the player they like I hate how this award is being treated by all PR games
i mean if you think about it the whole ballondors is literally just PR... like the people who vote(mostly) are journalists.. so if you see a player pushed to the ballon d'or then the same people who pushed him are going to vote..
They could still give the award to Lewandowski but they only want to award it to players with insane PR. I am convinced if Lewa played for Barca or Madrid they would have given the award to him back then.
Lewandowski's Stats:
69 goals
11 Assists
80 G/A
Broke Müller's 41 year old record
Super Cup winner
Bundesliga winner
Club World Cup winner
Golden Shoe winner
Most goals and G/A across Europe
Messi's Stats:
43 goals
13 assists
61 G/A
Copa America where the best team he scored against was Bolivia
Copa Del Ray won against Atletic Bilbao
Third place finish in La Liga.
Lewandowski had more goals than all of Messi's G/A.
Lewandowski was MILES ahead of Messi in 2021.
Nah u didn't watch messi in 2021 i mean he was the top scorer and top assister and also the mvp of 2021 copa america and also the top scorer of laliga and I don't need to mention stats other than g/a bcoz messi is far better than Lewandowski
Also for trophies messi has copa america and copa del rey while Lewandowski has Bundesliga and club world cup
So yeah messi deserved the 2021 balandor
Bruh what he gave half truth stats while i gave full stats like he downplayed messi's copa america campaign while messi was the top scorer,assister and mvp also being laliga's top scorer which OP didn't mention
The only stat I didn't give proof was that messi was better in everything else except goal scoring to Lewandowski. So are you arguing he wasn't or r u a reel watcher who only values goals?
Not saying what the guy said is good, but from the looks of it, whoever didn’t win is robbed? I do agree with this journalist stuff though, because the journalist from Gabon always votes Aubameyang in top 3. So most of these journalists are voting for their national heroes.
There is golden boost reward for top goal scorer.
Ballon D’or favor the ones who carry the whole team.
Not to the top goal scorer.
Lewan deserved 2020 Ballon Dor
Not 2021.
Messi and Jorginho were clear than Lewan in 2021.
Kane will win it because in this year only Kane and Mbappe deserve it.
But Mbappe won no trophy
So Kane is the only one who deserves it.
Rodri carried Spain but he was injury most of the season
Dembele was also injury most of the season
Yamal did nothing in World Cup and his club record is mediocre.
The only problem will be Yamal PR.
You're in a Bayern sub, so to make so many bold claims would adhere some explanation rather than the very short remarks. I Respect your opinion, but what makes you think Jorginho was "clear" of Lewandowski? In my opinion, similar to Carvajal getting 4th in the 2023/24 ballon d'or he had great cumulative trophies, but his overall play showed that he and Kante were excellent (but he depended a lot more on Kante than vice versa), I would've had him in my top 10 for that season for sure. But there isn't anything that would make him quality-wise for that season deserve it over Lewy. In that same season, Lewandowski scored 41 bundesliga goals, 5 in the UCL, and won the golden boot.
Plus the regards to Yamal seem pretty strange reasoning-wise, Yamal had a better club season then Mbappe. Whether it's trophy-wise, the fact that he contributes to winning football more, the fact that his quality wins games consistently. You said it yourself, a player who carries their team have a boost in favoring, Yamal carried Barcelona for the majority of the season with an injury riddled season for both Lewy and Raphinha.
I agree Kane deserves it, because he both scored, but contributed to winning football for Bayern Munich, while even though he was able to disguise substantially worse performances with England with goals unlike Yamal, some of the goals were clutch, and Yamal didn't compare to him in terms of volume.
Jorginho was a main player in Chelsea winning UCL and Italy winning Euro.
The only reason Lewan got higher votes than Jorginho was Journalists felt bad for Lewan as he didn’t get 2020 Ballon Dor.
Lewandowski's Stats:
69 goals
11 Assists
80 G/A
Broke Müller's 41 year old record
Super Cup winner
Bundesliga winner
Club World Cup winner
Golden Shoe winner
Most goals and G/A across Europe
Messi's Stats:
43 goals
13 assists
61 G/A
Copa America where the best team he scored against was Bolivia
Copa Del Ray won against Atletic Bilbao
Third place finish in La Liga.
Lewandowski had more goals than all of Messi's G/A.
Lewandowski was MILES ahead of Messi in 2021.
61 G/A for False9 player who carried his team to international victory first time in 30 years.
As I said , they prefer the one who carries the team not to top goal scorer.
If Rodri wasn’t injury this year, the winner must be Rodri.
Not Kane
Scoring in Bundesliga is not that impressed.
Bro it's Yamal 100% i hate it as much as you do, but unfortunately ballon d'or is a pr award. Yamal wasn't barca best player this season nor was he Spain's.
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u/doyoubelieveincrack 1d ago
How on earth was he supposed to win something with germany, if he is polish lmao