Ballon D'Or Situation Is Crazy

[@FootballIconic]

Justice for Joselu

[@drk_sentry4124]

Joselu the GOAT

[@3lakesroad]

As a life long Toon supporter.... what friggin timeline are we in?!

[@jacobsrooms]

@@3lakesroad Fever dream seeing him go from being shite in a Toon strip to winning the UCL with Real Madrid - did he just suddenly figure out how to play football or was he purposefully shit for us?

[@obama7324]

Justice for Carvajal

[@3lakesroad]

@@jacobsrooms it's an question Im not sure I actually want to know the answer to lol

[@peytonbond4886]

The bigger “robbery” is Xabi Alonso not winning Manager of the Year

[@KR__]

100% agreed

[@ducatarina]

You're delusional, Ancelotti won the Champions League he won the biggest trophie.

[@eliteman3250]

lol are you kidding right?

[@peytonbond4886]

@@eliteman3250 just my opinion but under Carlo, Real Madrid performed exactly as they were expected to with the addition of Bellingham. Won the UCL and La Liga. Which is super impressive. But what NO ONE saw coming was what Xabi Alonso would do to Bayer Leverkusen, ending a decade of Bayern dominance, only losing the Europa League final, going unbeaten in the league with the squad he had: to me, he deserved it. Again, my opinion

[@antiwokehuman]

@@ducatarinaso? Should they give it every year to the coach that won the ucl?

[@CodersDomain]

Bro slid Fred in with Busquets and Rodri like we wont notice

[@LesGrossman7]

Lol

[@FootballIconic]

Don’t know what you mean, bro

[@yodaWasUseless303]

@@FootballIconic Nah - Busquets is *criminally underrated* - everyone who watched football in the past 20 years knows that. Busquets was the third of that iconic trio of Busquets-Xavi_Iniesta. You had to be insanely good to be there. The problem for Buquets is that he was playing in an era where Iniesta was ahead of him for any award conceivable, and so was Xavi, and so was Ronaldo, and so was Messi - I think if Busquets played in this era he would easily outshine the likes of Rodri. Still, I genuinely do not think Rodri deserved this one. But hey, this is what the Ballon d'Or is all about: it is not a god given final decision on who was objectively better. It is a decision that a select group of people came to, using their own reasons - some of those reasons may be whack - we just got to live with that, and hold to our own opinions. Fred, on the other hand - please go to the corner for this one.

[@SouthamptonCentral]

@@yodaWasUseless303 If everyone knows that he’s underrated then isn’t he not underrated? Which makes it impossible to know that he’s underrated because he isn’t? Anyway Rodri has surpassed prime Busquets in my opinion. I get that the previous generation had a few better players but overall I don’t think the standard of football has dipped enough for the best player now to be considered worse than a player who wouldn’t even have made the top 5 at any point in his career.

[@Speedyvampir2]

​@@FootballIconiccos you acting dumb.

[@karma_kar9623]

Moistcr1tikal ahh title

[@MercWTM2]

lol

[@3bladeninja21]

The greatest Balon D'or of all time

[@FootballIconic]

"Addressing the drama"

[@ahuk]

😭🙏

[@ahuk]

Jus' LOL.

[@Old-school_classics]

8:27 Mbappe was in Paris for his award and VAR pulled him back to Madrid... Offside lmao

[@ahuk]

❤

[@Chris-xz1ii]

You shall not see heaven😂😂😂 my friend....never

[@Jiwannnn]

😂

[@prithvirajsrinivasan1077]

Ohhh youuu😂😂😂😂

[@flankspeed]

That was class tbf 😂

[@musamunisi8109]

Leverkusen only lost the Europa final, and still didn't win TOTY.

[@popps33]

That’s a ultra fair point

[@vaqueroliquido7339]

and real madrid lost one league game and one cup game, but won all the finals they played, plus the league. It's a better accomplishment.

[@Justshorts-mq3cn]

The lost the most important match of their season

[@saphirmwamba1196]

Xabi Alonso not winning Coach of the Year is shocking as well to me

[@ninjatap615]

​@@vaqueroliquido7339 Madrid also spent 100m+ that ssn on players, have he largest wage bill itw and are financially dominant in comparison to their league. Leverkusen unbeaten is a much much better feat and they should have won

[@lukew6725]

The funniest part of this whole thing is how Lewis Hamilton tweeted a Brazilian flag emoji for the simple reason that the next grand prix is taking place in Brazil and the replies were flooded with people praising how he's sticking up for Vinicius. 😂

[@omerosman1280]

you must have minus iq for not picking up for that.

[@Yunglesedi]

That was the craziest day ever 😭😭🤣🤣

[@Poussyeater-w5e]

😂😂😂😂Bro

[@Vongreimbf109]

Lol is that true ?..too much kiddie in socmed

[@eavyeavy2864]

​@@Vongreimbf109what do you expect from club who's fans are teen gloryseekers😂

[@James-bb7ix]

Rodri deserved the award..just a few months ago people were saying Bellingham should win it before his form dipped. Football fans have short term memories

[@otdavid_]

He don't mate.

[@byimranalam]

Recency bias is crazy

[@GIBBO4182]

@@otdavid_he did. Whether you think him or Vini should have won it is a different conversation, saying he didn’t deserve it is just wrong. He only lost once all season, won a trophy with his club and won a trophy with his country, where he was player of the tournament

[@4everyonesafety]

last season he's not even included in the player of the season for the premier league nor the champions league but oh yesh suddenly hes the greatest player in the calender year

[@pratyushdam1]

I am sure you can count your brain cells on one hand

[@TwoWaySai]

I like how no one remembers Jude for consideration now it’s just Vini 😅

[@MercWTM2]

@@TwoWaySai people forgot about Bellingham because it was a bunch of salty Barca fans who didn’t want to see a Madrid player win the Ballon D’or

[@DucNguyen-eo9ns]

@@MercWTM2 or maybe because he ghosted during the latter half of the season and have a mediocare Euro

[@MercWTM2]

@@DucNguyen-eo9nsBellingham had a mediocre Euros, yet played a good half of England making it past the RO16. I’m convinced you’re a Barca fan judging by the way you talk about Madrid players. Bellingham was one of the reasons why Madrid won the UCL and La Liga.

[@20vitorneves]

@@MercWTM2 people forgot about Jude because his form dipped and Real started desperately pushing the agenda of another RM player for Balon D'Or because they feel the need to always be in that conversation

[@DucNguyen-eo9ns]

@@MercWTM2 and yet Rodri is the POTT of the Euro, so Rodri both played a bigger role and better in the Euro while maintaining consistency throughout the entire season whereas both Vini and Bellingham ghosted one half of the season. It's not a fucking conspiracy or robbery lol, they are simply worse than Rodri. Funny how you guys are crying for Bell and Carvajal whereas for half a year it was all "Vini for Balon d'Or" from both the club and the fanbase

[@arturodelgado7071]

Even olivia rodrigo was catching strays. What a time to be alive!

[@shumlina]

She opened her ig like "now why am I in it?"

[@Poussyeater-w5e]

Tf what for?

[@rtop5339]

@@Poussyeater-w5e People mistook her ig for Rodri's (He doesn't have one). Also players like Rodrigo Bentacur and Rodrigo de Paul also got hit.

[@Poussyeater-w5e]

@@rtop5339 bro fr? That's actually insane. God when was the last time these NPCs went outside and breathed in oxygen and not something else??

[@theamazingone5217]

​@@rtop5339People didn't mistake it. They just did it cause it's funny.

[@taaaaaaaazzzzzz]

I love the fact that we have a winner that isn’t even on social media, opposed to someone who already had huge parties and media days planned out.

[@Jagaban123]

How do we know if the parties stories are even true. Real Madrid not going has very little to do with vini, vini is just a pun in the feud btw uefa and real, ceferin and perez if u read there official statement it highlights uefa disrespecting them, uefa just recently became a partner with the ballon dor organizers, there just trying to stick to uefa not particularly smart tho but most people would focus on vini, like vini is the one that makes this decisions.

[@gunter6377]

You think rodri didn't have those ready? You think he just went back to the hotel after the ceremony? Hating vinicius for having a party and sponsors is non sense

[@taaaaaaaazzzzzz]

@@gunter6377 I don’t hate him, I don’t care enough for him to do that. I respect him football wise, but especially in this day and age I personally prefer people who don‘t feel the need to celebrate their stardom all the time. The fact, that Real Madrid (except carvajal) were such sore losers that they didn’t even attempt the ballon D‘or or congratulate Rodri, doesn’t make me sympathize with them or vini though.

[@theZXDgames]

⁠​⁠@@taaaaaaaazzzzzz “I don’t care enough for him to do that” In other words, you do hate him, you just want to mask it with disdain. Besides, Rodri did party after the award, there are videos of him partying after the ceremony, still in crutches, and actually mocking Vinicius with the rest of the City squad. This was streamed in City’s own Instagram account, and the feed cuts off immediately as Rodri joins the ridicule of Vini. So much for that reserved personality of his. And what kind of criteria is this for choosing the best perfoming footballer of the year? I understand that fairplay is the last metric used by FF to choose a winner, but it has never been a deciding factor ever before, specifically with nearly as much emphasis as today. Hell, just look at Dibu Martínez, who is a much bigger muppet than Vini and Rodri put together, yet he still accumulates awards. The standards that are being levied against Vini are entirely unprecedented and obviously contemptuous of actual fair comparison. Much worse players on the pitch clinched closer awards before, such as Pavel Nedved, whose career is marred by constant hard tackling, fouling, diving and disciplinary issues, to the point that he missed the most important match of his best season because he was booked. But these facts were NEVER even considered for any other competing player before this award. Now we have these ridiculous lengths that some people will go to try and claim that Rodri edged over Vinicius due to fairplay and attitude, when Rodri is a well-known constant cynical fouler who gets booked often and cannot ever take shit from anyone else, not from refs and not from other players, and frequently disparages and argues with them on-field. Meanwhile Vini, at worse, “throws tantrums” that overwhelmingly owe to the treatment he’s received ever since he got in Spain. First from his own teammates, then from the scandalous, unceasing and illegal racial abuse that is hurled at him time and time again, that authorities refuse to properly acknowledge or address, and instead ignore it with contempt in the hopes that doing so will avoid hurting La Liga’s and UEFA’s image in the eyes of consumers. In order to behave like this, they have to act like Vini’s behavior is simply spontaneous, and not a product of how much racism and cruelty have been inflicted upon him since he moved to Spain in his late teens. So not only is Vini’s behavior decontextualised while metrics of “good behavior” are applied ONLY to him, that have never been and continue not to be standards for other players (such as the aforementioned Dibu and Rodri himself), but they try to artificially improve Rodri’s reputation by passing off personal facts that have nothing to do with football as fairplay. “He has no social media accounts” and “he has a college education” were arguments used by actual FF journalists who voted for Rodri, and who sometimes excluded Vini from the top 10 even, one such being the Polish elector. What the FUCK do ANY of those things have to do with FOOTBALL? Let alone fairplay in football? These are rhetorical questions, they have nothing to do with football or fairplay. They’re not even good behavior per se. Getting a college education is a somewhat exemplary thing, but not having social media? How does that make you a better person in the eyes of the public? And even if “setting an example in personal life outside the pitch” suddenly became a criterion in voting, which has never been and continues not to be a factor for other players, how would it even make up for Rodri’s behavior as player? And how are they any better than Vini’s consistent and outspoken campaign against racism and frequent donations and aid to impoverished children in his home country of Brazil? People genuinely just made shit up to justify Rodri.

[@taaaaaaaazzzzzz]

@@theZXDgames I only read the first few sentences, because comment sections aren’t my life. I don’t care about him, I don’t know him personally, I’m no real fan and at the most I don’t like the disrespect he is portraying by not even being present at the event, that lacks class in my opinion. Rodri is the best in the world in his position for a while, is part of the first team to win 4 pls in a row, has a lot of g/a for a cdm and won the European championship with his country. There is no robbery here. You can have a different opinion, like some people who voted for vini at the ballon d‘or. That’s fine. But more voted for Rodri.

[@LjuboCupic1912]

Nike had specially designed Vinicius Ballon d’or boots to unveil today in an event in Madrid. Real Madrid TV had 5 hours of programming to air about his win. Vini himself was going to have a party and hand out Rolexes. He was telling Gavi to watch him collect the award on Monday. Their media told them it was theirs, no question, and they believed it fully. They broke the number 1 rule, “don’t get high off your own supply.” Now, they’re outraged that something which was never theirs in the first place was “taken from them.”

[@ballcrunch3911]

that is so true , no one told them they won , they just assumed vini had to get it , so dumb

[@nika6184]

vini-didnt-tell-gavi-about-balondor-but-that-he-had-won-2-Champion-leage

[@spuddwebb7242]

No he did deserve the award

[@Bobbiez_editz]

@@spuddwebb7242How Rodri had more assists Dan him and was more consistent overall last szn

[@sayansameer]

"never theirs in the first place" it was never Rodri's in the first place lol, he wasn't even gonna attend because he knew he didn't win, why do you think that happened?

[@dragondragonwolf]

There should be 4 separate ballon d'or awards for goalies, defenders, midfielders and forwards.

[@31indujak14]

They have goal keeper trophy. The defenders are the only people who would never get their hands on ballondor.

[@kendyjapri1559]

Good idea.. every position got one ballon d or, and there is “main ballon d or, for the best player on earth like messi/cristiano ussually won”

[@omthapakazee]

@@31indujak14 fabio cannavaro won ballon dOr in 2006 he was a defender

[@COCOCOBIANXX]

How about 11 separate Ballon'dors (one for every position) and another Balon'dor for the best bench player?

[@Vongreimbf109]

​@@omthapakazeeSammer won that too

[@megamysteryguy1234]

12:08 bro snuck fred into the same sentence as busquets 😭😭

[@moonskyblake2887]

Diabolical 😂

[@moeski17]

And McTominay 😂

[@mezhub7985]

😂😂😂

[@Tkokat]

The fact that a lot of Madrid fans actually harassed Rodrigo DePaul, Rodrygo and a singer called Rodri (or Rodrigo, cannot remember) tells you everything you need to know about these "fans". They're either not actually into football, they're bots, or they only watch TikTok reels.

[@Rhyzer295]

All of the hate wouldn't even affect rodri

[@bronzy9826]

Olivia Rodrigo. A large portion of our clubs fans are Indian kids who just got internet set up.

[@shlokshetty448]

​@@bronzy9826Racist much

[@Asad97654]

No, with Olivia Rodrigo and Rm Rodrygo all club fanbases came in to make fun of Madrid. But yeah De Paul should definetly shouldn't have been targeted.

[@akaInfamous]

It's kids. Not that actual fanbase. Relax.

[@rhubarbs]

the sense of entitlement is by far the worst thing about this debacle. you can be disappointed, and angry, that Vini didn't win, but to act like it's some sort of crime against him, that he is the one true winner, to not even congratulate Rodri on his win ... it's all coming from a clearly deep-rooted sense of entitlement that is clearly present in the club. current and ex real Madrid players insulting rodri was the icing on the cake

[@nicovelardita8619]

My boy Carvajal got shafted and nobody cared

[@luizmatte4345]

​@@nicovelardita8619 so maybe it's about other stuff... Like Vini thinks he's always the big victim in every situation? He can never do wrong and will always cry, maybe could have to do with that?

[@nicovelardita8619]

@@luizmatte4345 My comment was mostly a joke. I think all the main nominees could have won it (from Rodri to Lautaro). People have overblown this whole thing

[@Seila60815]

You have to be very stupid or have bad faith not to admit that racism exists in this case, regardless of whether you think Rodri deserves it or not.

[@luizmatte4345]

@@Seila60815 you have to be stupid to believe racism has anything to do with it This is the exact entitlement Vini shows... He just has to win, otherwise it's the world's fault, they are all against him, bla bla bla

[@vongunnar]

"Antony got robbed" had me laughing out loud!

[@rethabilemoloi3490]

💀

[@Prasko131]

It's easy to make you laugh i guess

[@zorashki]

Fun fact: Vini JR wasn't even in the top 5 rankings half the season. Billingham was #1... then second half of the season he shined in Champion's league and suddenly people forgot everything lol

[@viniciusferrari2653]

he shone at the most important moment of the season when his team needed him the most. ucl always is the biggest factor in deciding who will win the ballon d'or (except when WC rolls around), it always was and it will always will be. but suddenly, just because vinicius is a serious contender, people downplay the ucl saying his first 6 months were bad, which is funny, because no player ever won the award because he had an amazing 6 months from august through december. EVER.

[@lionellow105]

Did he had a good Copa? It's his own fault. Had he won the Copa, or even got top scorer or top player there would be no debate.

[@viniciusferrari2653]

@lionellow105 no it wouldn't. no one in europe cares about the copa america. let's make a thought experiment. rodri wins the UCL, the UCL player of the tournament award, and the PL title, but exits in the group stage at euros. meanwhile, vini wins la liga, the spanish cup, the club world cup, the copa america and the copa america player of the tournament award. do you really think an eurocentric minded award would elect vini jr as the ballon d'or? don't lie to yourself.

[@lionellow105]

@@viniciusferrari2653 No need for your useless thought experiments, I didn't even bother reading that trash. Messi won the Ballon Dor when he won the Copa. You're just stubborn. Vini only performed in a short period of a few games.

[@lionellow105]

@@viniciusferrari2653 You fundamentally don't understand the Ballon Dor. International Football always carry heavy weight. Modric won one when he did well in the World Cup. Ronaldo won for his Euros win. Messi got one for Copa, one for World cup. Without international football, UCL takes precedent. Karim won for example in 2021.

[@katonk3745]

Hey man,I am not following football so much,but your content keeps me up with at least the basics. You seem cool dude to hang out with. Keep up the good work!

[@parz3356]

0:10 This time was so nice, we have to do it twice

[@apoorvachhetri3126]

People need to realize Rodri is a CDM. When was the last time a CDM won a ballon dor? They are mostly over looked and are underrated. Besides that he also has some decent stats of 10 G and 14 A which is insane for a CDM. So he defenitrly deserves it more than vini this year who still can win the award numerous times in coming years

[@Goals4everyone]

He's not the typical CDM Pep always intruct him to go forward And last season he's not even included in the player of the season for the premier league nor the champions league but oh yesh suddenly hes the greatest player in the calender year 😂

[@jaylugia5905]

@@Goals4everyone the whole of manchester city plays forward you want tell me that gvardiol is a winger and diaz a striker? get a grip

[@CarlosRojas-hr6ms]

Matthias Sammer was the last cdm to win the golden ball. Also one of the worst ones

[@Goals4everyone]

Oh yeah just ignore this fact last season he's not even included in the player of the season for the premier league nor the champions league but oh yesh suddenly hes the greatest player in the calender year ​@@jaylugia5905

[@rhubarbs]

I find it funny that when the it goes to the top scorer that won the UCl, they complain that other players are ignored. Now it goes to a DM that won the league/euros and people are losing their minds

[@stevanpetrov1898]

lmao I opened your channel 5 minutes ago thinking "come on, he might've made a video on this already" and then proceeded to watch a random older video, only to refresh and find this, you're the best

[@TimothyCaster]

kisassss

[@malcoerazo4213]

Vini not only missed 20 games last season, but had one of the worst international tournaments I've ever seen a top player have. Just a complete ghost. In my books, someone who isn't better than Daniel James at international level can never be a Ballon D'Or winner

[@MrVvulf]

Haaland's 2022/23 season puts Vini's 2023/24 season to shame. Haaland didn't win either. Real Madrid really showed their ass.

[@ThundurusT]

Forget about Copa America, dude hasn't scored in the South American qualifiers, 10 games already lmao

a complete ghost that completely destroyed Paraguay. Who suffered a very clear penalty against Colombia that was not scored. A penalty so clear that CONMEBOL itself went public to say it was a mistake. Don't get me wrong Vini was bad at COPA AMERICA but not as bad as they say. In the first game he created 3 very clear goal chances and his teammates lost. The Brazilian team is horrible, but not because of individual talents, there is a much bigger problem. Do you think that if you put Rodri in the Brazilian team he would solve it? Vini Wouldn't playing for Spain help the team? Rodri was voted best at EURO in a totally controversial way. The perception that he was not even close to the best in Spain is quite clear to anyone who follows football and commentary on the subject. Rodri was not even included in the selection of the 11 best in the Premier League. He is an excellent player, but the best player in the Champions League was Vini. The game against Granada to overtake the leader of the competition in La Liga was a masterpiece for Vini. Anyone who wants to think that everything is in order is talking BS.

[@malcoerazo4213]

Brother while I agree that Vini was the best player in the Champions League, it wasn't really an EXTRAORDINARY performance by him, we've seen top players perform in the CL quite a lot of times, even most of the times when it comes to Ballon D'Or winners really. And last season was an international tournament season, we can't just simply undermine that and pretend those tournaments don't matter. They matter, and in my opinion, they matter as much as the CL. That's why they're only played every few years. Same with the world cup. And not only that, but Vini missed like 20 games last season. It wasn't really as clear as day as people thought, I know it's kind of unfair, but just think that Vini's season when it comes to G+A would've been Messi's, Cristiano's, Lewandowski's, Neymar's even Suarez's worst season at the top level. Vini could've won it, but just as much as Rodri imo, it wasn't really a robbery. Hell even Lautaro Martinez comes into conversation, even with the bad CL campaign, or even Carvajal who isn't an extraordinary player

[@malcoerazo4213]

@@DamianKnox11 please don't make me laugh, if you watched even his worst tournaments which were 2010 WC and 2011 Copa America he was still Argentina's best player. Don't be ignorant

[@iwishicouldthinkofabettern1544]

Why are people blaming France Football? It's not like they decide, it's Journalists from around the world that vote for it. It's like blaming Electoral Commission for a presidential election, & not the Voters.

[@gwalker123]

Haha you've reminded me of my country Kenya

[@1237barca]

Ppl are stupid. Especially Real Madrid fans

[@salmanrafat7820]

UEFA select the people who vote. They influenced voting

[@elpibedeloslirios5151]

@@salmanrafat7820 Oh so that's what Real Madrid fans tell to themselves?

[@sayansameer]

They saw who was on the running to win the award based on previous criteria, and changed them as they saw fit, ofc the club that stole France's best player for free simply cannot have another of their player win the Ballon d'Or. So along with UEFA who lost the case against Madrid on the ESL, together they did their best to humiliate the club and their best player

[@nicotrex6690]

Perhaps individual awards for a team sport are a mistake.

[@nicotrex6690]

Or just dumb

[@ahuk]

😅

[@loulou7194]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@Niimerium]

Makes sense for Tennis or individual sport not for team.

[@arep1030]

Nah just because a team wins something doesn't mean everyone on the team is talented or giving it their all. Even the nba has mvp for each season. While some may be against it, most athletes use these awards as their motivation.

[@SebastianDalhed]

I honestly don’t think anyone was told who was gonna win. I think it’s more of a case of Real Madrid not being told anything and they decided the silence meant Vini wasn’t gonna win.

[@superslayerguy]

74 game unbeaten streak, club and international success doesn’t warrant the award I guess 🤷‍♂️

[@MercWTM2]

And Vini didn’t have the same? Excluding the Euros. It’s funny how y’all use the Copa America as a way to downplay Vini’s fantastic season.

[@Goals4everyone]

Funny how u say that because he isnt even the best player in hes team

[@oSqroll]

Vini lost 1 game of football all season as well

[@DucNguyen-eo9ns]

@@Goals4everyone He isn't the best player in their team because forward always get flowers and notice. See how Foden is completely gone even with De Bruyne being out? See how City looks 3 times worse without Rodri? That should let u know how important Rodri is for City

[@superslayerguy]

@@MercWTM2 does Vini have 74 game unbeaten run?

[@noob_watcher]

Real is just a salty team

[@kiritomato1908]

Real is The salty team.

[@byimranalam]

Real is THE BIGGEST salty team.

[@anshtripathi7035]

entire barca boycotted the ceremony when ronaldo won in 2016

[@Kyoungminyshka]

@@anshtripathi7035i see how badly they wanted to be like barca after losing to them 0:4 at home

[@1237barca]

Madridistas are soulless. It is honestly that simple.

[@simelisiphomncube3434]

I thought Vini should have won it. But I'm not mad at Rodri winning 😂

[@ADM.II.]

Same.

[@laoch5658]

no

[@jrfeil23]

Who the fuck is Rodri

[@sayakbanik]

1:45 Bruhh🤣

[@kyriakos02]

Bro is hitting us with the back to back🔥

[@ninjabathat2792]

Vini was good in la liga, great for the Cl, dog shit in the brazil man had the same goal contributions as anthony gordon and 1 more then kai havertz for gods sake in the league rodri as a dm, was instrumental in city winning another prem, helping city to another deep run to the semis, helping spain win the euros (was he the best player no but to say he wasnt important is stupid). one of if not the best DM in the world and in terms of his offense contributions, only had 3 less then vini FOR A DM which is AMAZING! "rodri didnt win player of the season for the prem" well vini didnt win la liga player of the season, it was jude if anything jude should feel some type of way, carried that madrid offense for half of the season, contributed to almost the same amount of goals as vini in the CL, and scored a goal in the euros that helped england make it to the finals, jude has done more for england in that one euros then vini has done for brazil in his entire career for playing for them florian writz, 22 goal contributies, helping leverkusen win the league and cup FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE CLUBS HISTORY. undefeated and only losing 1 game which was the europa league final WHICH HE WAS GREAT IN. he was also solid for germany in the euros, again just better then vini in international play lautaro scored the most goals in the league, won serie a and the supercoppa. was instrumental in argentina winning the copa america and scored 5 goals, scoring the winner in the final beating a colombia that didnt lose a game IN 2 YEARS. only slight for him is the champions league where inter was unfortunetly eliminated to atletico madrid in the r16 edit started here: vini was not robbed, everyone saying or thinking he was robbed genuinely has no critical thinking skills. vini only deserves it because of his champions league campaign? get tf out. if your next point is about messi winning last time just for the world cup i agree, he shouldnt have won it so whats your point lol? disgraceful that the entire of madrid didnt attend just because one of their guys didnt win, what an entitled club and a bunch of losers and that includes the fans that agrees with their actions

[@victormello3147]

U are disgrace clearly dont see any matches of football. Vini was robbed he doesnt Win because of outfield behavior, in field no one is better than him no one was more decisive than him. It was a shame for the ballon dor, rodri wasnt the best player in his team or nation team. Vini doesnt Win because he is Black and talks about the racism chants at the games, and people dont like when u put yourself against racist people who have too much Power in this sport. He was the best in field, rodri is not better player than Vinícius at any timeline. Robbed as fuck

[@akaInfamous]

It's also the situation around it, not only him not receiving the award. Also, big guy, stop calling people losers just because they have a different opinion than you. the context of the competitions matters, you can't just judge by stats.

[@miguelyoshikuni5352]

"Bro, Vini carried Madrid in the final half of the season, and international competitions were never this important until this year (the only one that truly matters is the World Cup). If it’s not Vini, then Carvajal won everything and was more crucial to the Spain national team than Rodri. They should literally give the award to the best player, and it’s clear that Vini was the most dominant player last season = the best player. Plus, he faced racial abuse from opposing teams while still dominating Europe(the guys is scored in all crucial moments for madrid to win the last UCL)."

[@ninjabathat2792]

@@akaInfamous hey man, not my fault if ppl are a bunch of whiney mofos that cant handle their favorite player winning? and what situation around it? jude was the front runner back in the spring and all of a sudden vini now gets the pr? my main point is it was never robbed and that madrid handled themselves in a disgraceful manner

[@ninjabathat2792]

@@miguelyoshikuni5352 international competitions are always important what are you talking about lol and yeah i agree, carvajal should have probably been a bit higher but i still think rodri and any of the players above had a better season then him so it wasnt him vini the most dominant player? not sure how u can be the most dominant player if you missed the first half of the season loads of players had about the same level of contribution as vini, i understand his CL performances but thats not the only thing that matters as for the racism, im sorry about that but that isnt a factor in any of this, im just talking about pure football and what the guy did last season and honestly it wasnt even his best season for madrid, last season he was way better (but im glad he called out some of the madrid fans for the racist remarks against yamal, should never be a place like that in futbol or anywhere else)

[@tenki_]

why are we lying about vinicius he’s undeniably good but he wasn’t even the favorite in june! reports were saying jude bellingham was the frontrunner

[@viniciusferrari2653]

and all of a sudden, because of an undeserving euro mvp, rodri wins it. there is no angle about this mess that doesn't make it look completely pathetic

[@GOATZELWARDBANDWAGON.]

⁠​⁠@@viniciusferrari2653Vinicius had the same league G/A as the likes of Mateta Lacazette and Havertz. There is angle about this, Vinicius wasn’t clearly the best player in all competitions just UCL.

[@Goals4everyone]

​@@GOATZELWARDBANDWAGON.and Vini won the champions league POTT And dont forget he was include for canditate for the Player of the Season in la liga while rodri isnt in even in top 5 for POTY in premier league😂

[@Goals4everyone]

​@@GOATZELWARDBANDWAGON.and he's not even included in Premier league POTS and Champions league POTS atleast for the guy who won the fkin b'dor he shouldve been include in top 5 canditates for last season POTS or POTT

[@viniciusferrari2653]

@@GOATZELWARDBANDWAGON. which is the most important club competition, and ALWAYS had the biggest weight in deciding who was the ballon d'or winner (except when WC rolls around). why is it that all of a sudden, people are downplaying the UCL just because vinicius became a serious contender? without vinicius, there is NO 15th ucl title. that would be enough in any non WC year before messi and ronaldo to crown him as the ballon d'or. why the change in criteria so suddenly?

[@oceanmike8516]

12:51 did you and the current missus break up? The Austrian one that is?

[@MrMMAJER]

I've seen an opinion about how people seem to give this award way more importance than it used to have since the Ronaldo and Messi era.

[@vaqueroliquido7339]

that's a stupid and ignorant opinion. It was important when Ronaldo won it (when you say "Ronaldo" it's Ronaldo Nazario, even CR7 calls himself "Cristiano"), it was important when Zidane won it, when Ronaldinho won it, when Kaká won it, when Figo, when Owen, when Cannavaro all won it. It was important back when players like George Best and Michel Platini won it. It's just the last decade that the award has progressively lost importance and credibility because nowadays public opinion is swayed by people fueled by internet-hate ,that are ignorant about the sport, and don't even watch the games outside of their own teams.

[@vehl1ks449]

Laughed so hard at that intro - rip ten hag and ManU fans. Great video as always G

[@mukeshC164]

This is BY FAR the BIGGGEST overreaction over a Ballon D'or winner!

[@sayansameer]

not over the winner, over the blatant corruption and attempt of humiliation

[@ziadwalid6634]

​@@sayansameer tell me you're a madridista without telling me. Nobody actually thinks that except you guys and fans that lack knowledge of how the game is supposed to be played. Rodri literally entered the guiness book of world records due to his unbeaten streak

[@akaInfamous]

​@@ziadwalid6634 cool. Doesn't mean he should have win it over vini

[@bla-bla-bla8881]

@@ziadwalid6634he lost vs Madrid

[@Endrick-real]

​@@akaInfamouscry baby grow up

[@peterwilliams2858]

“The Freds the McTominays” just rage baited the entire engagement.

[@jamestaylor7045]

10/10 not the next videos i thought we were going to get

[@giggsy__]

My choice was Lautaro. Watching all this drama with popcorn.

[@johnpitsi2984]

I simply dont care about this balon dor I just love the sense of humor in every of your content especially this one because you know that we know some of us wouldnt lose sleep if anyone won it so you had to pull your shorts up and kick your vid to the top right corner to create excitement

[@tobyclackson]

9:02 the cut has me CACKLING 😭

[@not2busy]

It's good that someone mentioned Lewandowski. I don't hear much about him these days despite him scoring a crazy number of goals, Barca being first place and Barca having annihilated Real Madrid recently. Will he be considered for next year's award? Another great video.

[@isaac15752]

what this video didnt say, was how lewa WAS salty over not getting the award, deserving so, he had spoken ill of the ceremony after not receiving the award. bayern has not went for the award for quite some time as well.

[@papamuller]

Mf pessi scored only 6 goals in the league next season. Even that year he outscored the winner Benzema and should've been in the top three​@@isaac15752

[@TheReeelBradPitt]

@@isaac15752it’s okay to have your gripes, but being on the shortlist means you should show up even if you know you’re not going to win, just disrespectful to the winner

[@isaac15752]

@@TheReeelBradPitt .... even when the reason you are not winning is due to racism ? vini only not won cus he is the biggest sports activist against racism, he is so big that because of him for the first time in history a spainish person was arrested for racism, he is normalizing leaving the game due to racist chants. they were so disgusting they used the only african player to win the award to give it to the winner, just to spite and humiliate, they removed him from the pictures, mocked him on television, but yes, he shouldve went there to go through all that in respect for a undeserving guy being used as a straw for racists. this is a clear message they are giving to him, a message for him to put his head down and dont fight back, otherwise he wont ever win the award.

[@isaac15752]

@@TheReeelBradPitt why would a black man show up to be humiliated by racist white ppl ?

[@thekeccles1996]

That conclusion is perfect, don't lose sleep either way. Both would have been good picks -- I'm in the camp that Rodri deserved the award, and I'm also of the opinion that Vinicius Jr. will certainly receive this award at some point in his career. If not this year for him, I do see it coming to him in the future. I care about watching my club play and win games far more than I care about the Ballon d'Or, and I think we all should. It is important to recognize players when the awards ceremonies come around, but awards ceremonies are not why I love football.

[@gedeonbruns1236]

Great Video!

[@wunti09]

It amazes me how everyone conveniently leaves out Lautaro Martinez in the discussion for Ballon'Dor

[@arep1030]

Inter milan was knocked out in round of 16 last season, hence why. Yes they won serie a and he's their top scorer, same with mbappe who wins ligue 1 being their top scorer but no one said he should be winning it ahead of vini and jude yeah?

[@hindie5001]

Being a brazilian and watching the whole different connections and questions that europeans bring over this Award is crazy 'cause here we have a very clear idea of what happened: Racism. Clear and simple. The whole situation with Le Equipe expecting RM to be there, media talk about how "Football won, what act of CLASS AND SPORTMANSHIP" while Vini Jr already had problems with journals and blogs... Nah G. We know what happened. And it wasn't a football choice. Rodri is the image that they want to represent, but Vini is what football is.

[@YAMCHAx]

finally a quality yap to listen while doing work

[@Joakim-Buht-Focker]

1:45-1:46 funniest cut in a while. Thank you 😅

[@Le_aD_On]

The humour 💀 9:58

[@nhatminhnguyenuc6531]

But it's true thou, Antony only need 3 goals to score a hat trick and score more goals in pl than vini jr.🥶🥶 Levels

[@macncheese4224]

Thank u for this!

[@himanshurajput523]

Ah fellow r/soccercirclejerk enjoyer

[@excalibur3390]

Hello mate😂

[@louisbalaclava]

Love your content bro

[@philmisc3513]

The leaks were coming from Madrid's media hype machine. Very happy for Rodri and his family, pure class. Meanwhile, we saw the true colors of the brats at Madrid.

[@4everyonesafety]

last season he's not even included in the player of the season for the premier league nor the champions league but oh yesh suddenly hes the greatest player in the calender year

[@shimarin1647]

​​@@4everyonesafety euro&nations league pott, city's most important player whether he got toty or not, 70+ games unbeaten, amazing G/A for a DM and bet u cant name 1 DM better than rodri lol but i can name a handful of wingers that can replace vini so cry me a river

[@suhaasbhat8736]

​@@4everyonesafetyDid Vini win laliga player of the year? No. So stfu

[@4everyonesafety]

@@shimarin1647 tf how about the other CDM who is included in candidate for POTS in the premier league and have a good tournament in euro Declan rice

[@4everyonesafety]

@@shimarin1647 and he's not even included in Premier league POTS and Champions league POTS atleast for the guy who won the fkin b'dor he shouldve been include in top 5 canditates for last season POTS or POTT

[@timsnugget7571]

ahahah nice vid ahah cool stuff bro but why'd you have to hurt me that way at the last second ._. Keep up the great work, king

[@heIIbIazer]

I love how many journalists are coming out saying they voted for Rodri over Vini because he had the beter international tournament, meanwhile Fabian Ruiz was the best player in the Euros and won a domestic treble with PSG, yet they haven't even voted him into the top30...

[@rafaelalmeida3746]

Rodri wasn't even the best midfielder in Spain. And definitely not the best player of the Euros

[@BEASTXGAMING19]

I'm surprised dani didn't win it lol

[@johnm3419]

Maybe it’s cause I’m a boomer but the irony in that line about living life “raw” had me in tears. Standing ovation to you sir!

[@GIBBO4182]

Here’s an amazing stat to prove just how influential Rodri is…he missed 4 games all season and Man City lost them all!! Even with a squad and team as good as Man City’s, take him out and they struggled

[@4everyonesafety]

last season he's not even included in the player of the season for the premier league nor the champions league but oh yesh suddenly hes the greatest player in the calender year

[@GIBBO4182]

@@4everyonesafety people become used to him playing at a high level, they become desensitised to it and almost expect it, so it goes unnoticed. Sometimes you have to lose something to realise how good it was! Which is what the stat shows…you don’t realise how important something is, until it’s gone. 4 games missed, 4 games lost Btw, Rodri was in the PFA and fan TOTY in the PL

[@seaemkayval]

@@4everyonesafety he was player of the tournament at the euros?

[@4everyonesafety]

@@seaemkayval which he didnt deserve fabian ruiz had a better peformance That include lamine and nico williams and he's not even included in Premier league POTS and Champions league POTS atleast for the guy who won the fkin b'dor he shouldve been include in top 5 canditates for last season POTS or POTT

[@4everyonesafety]

@@GIBBO4182 bro being nominated as the best fkin player in the world for the calender year but and he's not even included in Premier league POTS and Champions league POTS atleast for the guy who won the fkin b'dor he shouldve been include in top 5 canditates for last season POTS or POTT

[@charlesebong1234]

I agree with your video.Great work... but to put Fred and McTominay in the same conversation as the greats is WILD😂.

[@prypiatshadow]

The other thing that keeps getting mentioned, when deciding the winner of the ballon d'or is sportsmanship. Saying Vini cries there and here is a serious understatement and everybody knows that. Real Madrid is a entitled organization with high expectations and that only makes it worse. Rodri compared to Vini has much more humility, and that's just a fact. Character made a serious impact on the final decision. PS: some great comments about the Real Madrid preparation to the award.

[@samirparajuli5574]

Finally a fan base that watches football and is understanding the situation here.. feels good to be here..

[@willmoffat868]

Rodri has been outstanding for seasons. Let's not pretend this award is just judged for a single season. I cannot comprehend how Madrid boycotted the ceremony with the first Spanish winner in over 50 years?

[@4everyonesafety]

last season he's not even included in the player of the season for the premier league nor the champions league but oh yesh suddenly hes the greatest player in the calender year

[@willmoffat868]

@@4everyonesafety I understand why vini fans are upset. He's never going to win it. After Barcelona humbled them they realised very quickly that la liga is probably out of their grasp for the foreseeable future. Can they win the champions league? Maybe. Will mbappe get the nod over vini if they do? Likely. And we all know brazil are massively in decline. So that's also an available avenue lost to vini. It's sad. But that's how it is. Luckily footballers careers aren't defined by an award.

[@dogdog2635]

@@4everyonesafetykeep a straight face and reply to me saying Declan Rice was better than Rodri last season. TOTS is fan voted ffs it’s a joke to include in your argument

[@Endrick-real]

​@@4everyonesafetyare you literally just posting same comment everywhere 😂😂😂

[@Endrick-real]

​@@willmoffat868 goated comment

[@yovanilla]

I think it's great to see a defensive, or defensive minded player get top recognition. All the glory goes to the goal scorers.

[@asc4135]

Vini became face of racism propaganda worldwide...thats why other madrid players were completely igonred and vini was on almost every social media post more than top 50 players combined.

[@_GERALDINHO]

my theory (just a theory, probably not true) is that UEFA pulled rank with France football to do one over Real Madrid, by knowingly getting false information out that Vini was the confirmed winner to hype them up so that on the day of the ceremony they could embarrass them. The fact that they were showing memes of Vini on the official stream is quite interesting. I was more convinced of this when apparently, they informed Rodri he was winning, who informed City, who later informed Real. The plan was to let them believe Vini won so they could mock them in front of the whole world watching that day as revenge for the Super cup drama. And if this is true then I definitely support Perez's decision not to travel to protect Vini from these guys, and the whole team for showing support.

[@Sam-od4uj]

At the end of the day, Rodri went from underrated to overrated in a year.

[@suhaasbhat8736]

No one cares about your shit opinion

[@felipemoreira7024]

Vinicius Jr is today one of the greatest anti-racism activists in the world. This whole circus was set up on purpose to humiliate him, which is why he didn't attend. He has many enemies in Spain and Europe overall for not accepting silently racist insults every game and fighting against it. They were sending him a message. They even cut him out of the photo from the "best team award".

[@eddielorentz8019]

It's a simple case of Vini and Jude splitting credit for best player on the best team, so an undisputed best player for a slightly worse team gets the award

[@daquaviousbingleton9763]

Man City are the better team though? By quite a long way

[@Goals4everyone]

​@@daquaviousbingleton9763and who won the ucl last season 😂and who lost to real madrid last season

[@isaac15752]

@@daquaviousbingleton9763 and lost on a semis, wow, so much for the best team

[@eddielorentz8019]

@@daquaviousbingleton9763 Wow I must've missed City lifting the 2024 UCL trophy

[@mischiefmanaged1726]

nicely covered tinashe, with all the thats been going on you being on the mainstream media will be 👌

[@siya___7776]

Rodri is class not mad that he won.

[@anshtripathi7035]

calling rodri class is such disrespect wtf

[@suhaasbhat8736]

​@@anshtripathi7035 touch grass

[@RSainman]

As a Madrid and Vini fan he was class, atleast he's humble and human. Can't hate the guy.

[@anshtripathi7035]

@RSainman Rodri is humble? he was chanting "vini ciao ciao" after the win during celebrations, that's class and humbleness?

[@RaulEdu33]

@@RSainman Rodri made fun of Vini after the award. He even received more cards than Vini. And he didn't want to take a penalty during the ManCity vs Madrid shootout.

[@RsaFootball]

"Sounds like my ex girlfriend" - that was all too real😂

[@animamaster]

I have lost all respect for Vini and Real Madrid in general for their childish behavior towards all of this. This behavior by a lot of children online crying about how this was rigged needs to stop. Just because Vini didn't win the Balon D Or does not mean he isn't a world-class player. Name me one time anyone saw Haaland or Lewandowski crying like little kids the way Vini is now. It's pathetic and this type of behavior should be reprimanded

[@Luis-kv8zc]

So are we gonna ignore the fact that the UEFA president has leaks just hating on Perez with the La Liga president? No real Madridista supported the Super League, but Perez exposed how hypocritical these organizations are and they've hated him since. UEFA being a part of this new Balon Dor hosting and this happening is no coincidence. PLUS there's been talks about Real Madrid boycotting the club WC as well. To compare it with a historical event. Many uneducated people claim that the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was the reason WWI started, but any real historian will tell you the pot had been stirring for a long while, there just needed to be a reason for action to be taken. This is in a sense the equivalent of what happened. The waters have been sour between Real Madrid and the Spanish FA + UEFA for a while. There just needed to be a reason to let that water flood out. Vini being "snubbed" is that reason. This isn't "spoilt brat" attitude. To them it's retaliation. And look what the no show of Real Madrid has done. It has caused the biggest doubt of the award EVER, with more people liking a Camavinga post than the actual Balon Dor winning post.

[@animamaster]

@Luis-kv8zc What does this have to do with anything I said

[@20vitorneves]

I'm just glad more people are aware of this type of things coming from them. The've been this way for decades, and honestly I think it mostly comes down from the president.

[@rREC]

​@@animamaster if he hates the president he'll probably think twice about awarding it to a player pertaining to his club. Are you stupid or did you not read the top part of his comment?

[@4everyonesafety]

​@@animamasterand its childish to put meme picture of vini in b'dor caremony

[@TheOnlyTaps]

Great watch as always!

[@rannynihilius8481]

Not even about who's better as a player but Vini and Madrid absolutely deserved this after the non-stop disrespectful attitude and embarrassing victim mentality, when the entire UCL run was filled with questionable moments that favoured them and i'm saying that as someone who loved watching them before Kroos left.

[@akaInfamous]

This makes no sense

[@rajat1960]

wtf are you yapping about

[@Rockstar-bq5fm]

I love the sass in you’re videos. Hilarious stuff haha

[@badasstasticusbadass4908]

I hope that with Messi and CR7 out of the picture, the Ballon D'ro can become like how it used to be. As much as people complains about Vini J not winning it, you cannot deny that this has been the most entertaining Ballon D'ro in years.

[@sagarvijayakumar]

Carvajal with his UCL, La Liga, Euros and UCL Motm and 7 goals and 6 assists, asking “why not me”

[@GOODKiDMANCiTY]

Lautaro had a better season than Vini

[@MercWTM2]

No he didn’t

[@titussalter8070]

​@@MercWTM2if you include the Copa he did.

[@ELDXNK]

@@titussalter8070if you include the ucl he didn’t

[@amratmohamed2382]

Carvajal had a better season then rodri

[@SouthamptonCentral]

@@amratmohamed2382 Carvajal was not the most important player for either of his teams.

[@ibpants]

It's been nice seeing the football world coming together to point and laugh at Real Madrid's reaction.

[@niklas3947]

Rodri ist probably the best player in the world right now, if you go by the impact on the teams he played in. Yes, Vinicius scored a lot of goals, but Rodri ist utterly indispensable tp the teams he plays in. He's the best 6 in the world by a landslide. Vinicius isn't even the best forward in the world right now.

[@4everyonesafety]

last season he's not even included in the player of the season for the premier league nor the champions league but oh yesh suddenly hes the greatest player in the calender year

[@4everyonesafety]

Wtf u mean that is a strecth to say vini isnt one of the best forward in the rn 😂ur just hatin typical barcelona fan

[@4everyonesafety]

Wtf u mean that is a strecth to say vini isnt one of the best forward in the rn 😂ur just hatin typical barcelona fan

[@niklas3947]

@@4everyonesafety I didn't say that. I said he's not THE best forward in the world. I never disputed that he is ONE of the best at the moment.

[@niklas3947]

@@4everyonesafety Nah, he just won the Prem and the European Cup. While Vinicius achieved...what exacrly with the national team?

[@Kingslayer1572]

Great video.

[@MrJarrydLee]

Vini didn’t even deserve the award. Fair Play & Class is one of the 3 main criteria, he just had a good end to the season while Rodri was ridiculously consistent the entire season for club and country while winning more trophies and individual awards

[@viniciusferrari2653]

the fair play and class criteria were applied to dibu martinez as well? if so, how could the most provocative goalkeeper in the world win the golden glove, since he has absolutely no class? this "fair play and class" argument is completely bollocks and not applied equally. also, rodri and vini had the same amount of trophies.

[@vaqueroliquido7339]

was Vini ever suspended last season? Because Rodri was, and that's the most fundamental punishment for breaking fair play.

[@rajat1960]

choking Gibbs-white and that GIbraltar chant was totally fair play bro right?

[@MrJarrydLee]

@@viniciusferrari2653 Martinez didn’t win the ballon d’or? 😂 and Vini won 3 trophies while Rodri won 4, try again dummy

[@MrJarrydLee]

@@vaqueroliquido7339 you’re comparing one incident to Vini’s entire season of bitching and whining and provoking opponents and their fans 😂 keep crying while Rodri enjoys his deserved Ballon D’or

[@yKO-pq4cb]

"Anthony was ro-" 😭😭

[@Bishlambo]

The player who wasn’t elected the best in his team, league or in Europe, won the Balon ‘Dor. Let that sink in.

[@pickle8233]

And the player who apparently deserved wasnt the best in his team, or in league and wasn't even nominated for tott in Copa america. Let that sink in

[@joshiekanjies]

He was elected as the best player in Europe. Just not under the UCL, and somehow the person who did deserve it contributed less to his country than haaland did for norway. Let that sink in

[@pickle8233]

And haaland gets destroyed for Norway not winning, fucking Norway 😂😂..foden went from top 5 to out of top 10 because of euros lmao😂😂😂​@@joshiekanjies

[@Bishlambo]

@@pickle8233 there’s a difference between being a close runner-up for both of those titles and not even being one of the nominees. Let that sink in.

[@Bishlambo]

@@joshiekanjies no he wasn’t elected the best in Europe. Erling Haaland won the UEFA Men’s player of the year award. Rodri won the player of the tournament in Euro 2024 which was debatable since Spain did not have a single star that made the difference. It was a team effort. And many argue other players deserved it too (like Wiliams, Lamine yamal)

[@kevooooo]

Well deserved! (From a united fan)

[@jpedrocurvelo]

Rodri was neither the best player of man city nor the best player of spain. This wasn't even his best season. The problem is not that Vini lost, but that Rodri won. Despite of the awesome player rodri is, people have totally made this nomination up. Any pro rodri argument has a reasonable answer. If it is because of the titles, then why not carvahal. If it is because of fair play, then why did Dibu won twice in a roll? Despite of the great player rodri is, arguing pro rodri on the ballon dor is pure lunacy. This was as bad as 2003 henry

[@arep1030]

Finally someone said it. I'd be okay if he wins it last season since although haaland puts up ridiculous numbers, him missing in the biggest stages every season makes his goals kinda worthless. Meanwhile rodri did performed in big games even scoring himself in the final

[@FootballBamberger]

"Rodri was neither the best player of man city nor the best player of spain." Who do you think was the best for Man City????

[@arep1030]

@@FootballBamberger well foden actually won player of the season so there's that. Also without haaland's goal city won't even win the league

[@FootballBamberger]

@@arep1030 So you think Foden or Haaland was the best for Man City?

[@arep1030]

@@FootballBamberger does my opinion matters? The whole of premier league picks foden for the award. And it was between cole palmer and foden, some would argue palmer deserves more but rodri was never in the conversation

[@manlikeme3648]

0:17 did you throw that quick Erik tenhag sack in there 😭😭🤣

[@dogdog2635]

Rodri has been City’s best player 3 seasons in a row indisputably. This season was no exception, couple that with his monster euros and you have a Balon d’or winner it’s pretty simple. Vini has barely played half the matches Rodri has

[@johnkimani3231]

Was waiting for this..

[@nigeldasilvalima4568]

Rodri winning it was complete no-sense. First, he was nowhere near the favorites by June. If you check all power rankings, bookmaking odds, etc, you wont see him near the top 5. In fact, City fans were all hyping Phil Foden, who won the PFA POTS award. So in 1 month he suddenly became a top contender? This looks way more like an anti-madrid propaganda trying to rise a rival to a Madrid player rather than he actually having an outstanding season. Also, I've seen so many people bringing up what he achieved in the 22/23 season... was this a compensation award for him then? His POTT award at the Euros was rubbish too. In Spain there were at least 4 players better than him: Yamal, Williams, Fabian Ruiz, and Olmo. So, how can someone be the best player in the world when he was not the best player either for his club or country? As for Vini, like you mentioned, was the most clutch player in the season by far. Not just in UCL, but also in the Spanish Supercup and LaLiga. I can name a bunch of matches which he grabbed the other team by their neck and won the match: top of the table clash against Girona, Barcelona, Valencia, etc. In his last 19 matches of LaLiga in 23/24 he got 14 G/A, which definitely helped Madrid to secure the title. And in the Spanish Super Cup final, he scored a hat trick against Barcelona, becoming the Brazilian with most goals in El Classico (surpassing the likes of Neymar, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Romario, etc). And in the UCL, he was undoubtedly the POTS: having a G/A in all KO stages, deciding the matches and later winning it by scoring in the final. Leaving the numbers aside, if you watch his matches you see how impactful he was even when he didnt have a direct goal contribution, like the 2nd leg against Bayern Munchen. Anyway... the whole world was pretty sure he was going to win it. That's why there are so many players and legends speaking out - not only Madrid affiliates or Brazilians, btw: Ribery, Rafael Leao, Edourd Mendy, Lewis Hamilton, Lemina (Tottenham), Aurier (Rayo Vallecano), Atalanta's coach.... the reaction of the people out and inside the gala says it all too. This was an absolute robbery and they set up the whole thing in an attempt to humiliate Vini. Thank god he didnt show up

[@YourFavouriteDraugr]

My guy got the tinfoil hat out for this one.

[@edwinrajeev7050]

This whole situation is way overhyped and over-discussed. Why is Real Madrid so focused on what journalists, team captains, and managers think? This vote includes opinions from various people with different backgrounds and perspectives. If the voting process and results are public information, how could it be biased against any one player? He clearly came in second. Instead of pointing fingers, they could consider the fact that Bellingham was also a candidate, which may have split the points. Why does a Spanish team care so much about a French award? They hype these awards up but then complain about not winning. What can the Ballon d’Or organizers do if the votes just came out this way? The whole episode just shows the entitlement here is off the charts. This is a classic example of dumb soccer players with no formal education to have so much money and no maturity to think logically and filled with entitlement and victim mentality. Added to this the team management feeding into this.

[@akaInfamous]

How is this an example of entitlement on the players when it was Perez, the president who called for this?

[@edwinrajeev7050]

@@akaInfamous just Vini’s and Ancelloti’s social media posts/comments are enough to see the entitlement

[@akaInfamous]

​@@edwinrajeev7050 what? Vini's "I'm gonna score 10x goals" comment? What's wrong with that? And do you not expect Carlo to be impartial here?

[@BiggestBirdonMars]

The fact that rodri(A DM) was in genuine contention for him shows how average the attackers have been

[@asongtiadepelong3892]

Rodri has been the most important player in Europe for 2 years now

[@salmanrafat7820]

Why didn't they give him last year? He had a better season last season.

[@asongtiadepelong3892]

@@salmanrafat7820 that question is irrelevant cause it's been given to him now

[@konsweber7712]

Liked the Lewandowski comparison. Heres a guy who was robbed blind once, most likely twice. He is there. Applauding. Giving his competitors the respect they deserve.

[@hsjshdhsjshsh958]

Rodri wasn't even Man City's best player

[@ahuk]

If you say so who else is it might be !? Phil Foden?

[@ahuk]

💀

[@Bobbiez_editz]

Then who was d best player?💀

[@kevooooo]

You know nothing about football.

[@hsjshdhsjshsh958]

Seems like I've angered some fanboys; listen, you could argue that Rodri was by a slim margin Man City's best player in the 22/23 season, but in 23/24, Foden, Haaland, and Ederson were at least as important, if not more important to City's success. Rodri also was not the best Spanish player at Euro 2024. I don't think he's a terrible choice for the Ballon d'Or, definitely better than Nedved was, but Vini Jr is clear of him.

[@adamb5132]

This vid talking about dm makes me miss prime Kante, man was he a wonder to watch. He made me feel bad for other teams.

[@benkardash3519]

Bro martinez at 7 and palmer at 25 is such more of a robbery

[@brinydemon0321]

Tf do you mean? Martinez deserves to be higher

[@Ronaldogoat2068]

So palmer after scoring against the likes of burnley and not playing championsleague should ve higher than 25 lol

[@benkardash3519]

@brinydemon0321 that's what I mean martinez top 5 at least

[@benkardash3519]

@@Ronaldogoat2068 he carried the english national team to that final

[@Ronaldogoat2068]

@@benkardash3519 he was on bench most of the time did you even watch the euros

[@patrik0075]

I saw him at the Euros, he is a rock in the midfield reminiscent of prime Busquets. Totally deserved

[@TeoMRJ]

Vini is the best player in the world plain and simple. Everyone knows it. Just like when other people besides messi or ronaldo were saying that they deserved it but they still gave it to ronaldo or messi because they were the best players. Rodri didn’t even win player of the season with city. And in the euros there were like 5 players in Spain on the same level as him.

[@user-df5kr3ld4r]

Well deserved 🎉🎉🎉🎉