Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 09:18
| Updated 12:36h.
The 2024 Ballon d’Or will go down in history as one of the great surprises that are remembered. Everyone was pointing to <a href="https://www.archysport.com/2022/01/see-live-match-barcelona-vs-real-madrid-free-online-without-ads-spanish-super-cup-spanish-league/" title="See LIVE match Barcelona vs Real Madrid, free, online, without ads, Spanish Super Cup | Spanish League”>Vinicius as the winner of the trophy until Rodrigo‘s name was leaked and the largest team of a club was created at the Ballon d’Or gala. The organizers France Football and L’Equipe had to work overtime to hide the most of 50 free seats that Real Madrid had left empty in the first rows.
And, to make matters worse, outside the theater, the atmosphere was very tense with boos and whistles at some of the award-winning players. There was also no peace before Rodrigo was crowned. The presenters had to ask the audience present in the theater to calm down because they were demanding the award for the Brazilian seconds before handing over the Ballon d’Or to the City midfielder.
It was precisely the entourage of the English team that notified Real Madrid that the winner of the award was Rodrigo. Florentino received a call and instantly canceled the flight that the white expedition had planned. In total, about 50 people were traveling, including players and family members. According to what was published in different Madrid media, Vinicius would have a place reserved to celebrate the Ballon d’Or.
Real Madrid believe, according to the closest media, that the hand of UEFA is behind everything. For the first time, the European federation is organizing the prestigious award together with L’Equipe and France Football and the organizers’ maxim was to avoid at all times the name of the winner being leaked. They didn’t succeed, obviously. But the idea they had in mind was to avoid scares like the one that Real Madrid experienced.
“UEFA and the Ballon d’Or do not respect Real Madrid and Real Madrid is not where it is not respected,” was the phrase that was leaked to the Madrid press yesterday afternoon. At Real Madrid they believe that yesterday is the last chapter of the fight they have with Ceferin and the politicians who govern football in the Super League.
The war that Florentino has devised against certain football institutions goes beyond a Ballon d’Or, and France Football and L’Equipe are the latest secondary actors that have been involved in this matter. On the long list of the club’s enemies are, in addition to UEFA, Javier Tebas, the Spanish Federation and the technical committee of referees. And this is what Real Madrid TV makes known, the club’s official channel that has a spot on the DTT grid. The Federation is tired of his videos about referees.
“We are very surprised by this absence,” they commented from Paris to the displaced Spanish journalists. During the gala, the organizers – also UEFA – recognized Real Madrid as the best club of last season and Ancelotti as the best coach. None of them climbed up to the lectern to collect the award. Not even Emilio Butragueño, who becomes the visible face of the white club when Florentino Pérez does not attend an event of a certain magnitude.
At the same time that Rodrigo raised the Ballon d’Or to the sky of Paris, the majority of the Real Madrid squad took out their mobile phone and wrote a message of support for Vinicius on their social networks. It was the only public reaction from the white club. The Brazilian also wrote a message: «I will do it ten more times if necessary. “They are not prepared.”
