It’s been almost a month since Manchester City’s Rodri Hernández was voted the best player in the world at the Ballon d’Or gala, leaving behind competition from a trio from Real Madrid, made up of Vinícius Júnior, Jude Bellingham and Dani Carvajal. .
However, this decision continues to give rise to talk, and was once again publicly addressed by the president of the Merengue team, Florentino Pérez, who accused UEFA of “changing the voting system”, and lamented that “there are countries with less than one million inhabitants in which journalists have a vote”.
“There is a journalist that no one knows and started voting this year. Without the votes of journalists from these countries, such as Uganda, Namibia, Albania and Finland, Vinícius would have won this Ballon d’Or”, he said, at the club’s General Assembly.
Words that deserved a peremptory repudiation from Sheefeni Nicodemus, a journalist from Namibia who placed Jude Bellingham in first place, followed by Rodri Hernández and Lamine Yamal, leaving the Brazilian international out of the top10.
“Basically, I suspect they are the words of someone who is frustrated, as is the case with Mr. Pérez. He feels that the people of my country and the others mentioned do not have a significant vote, because they are inferior,” he said, in an interview with radio Spanish Cadena SER.
“I would just like to know, if I were from one of the top footballing nations and I didn’t agree with your opinion, what the argument would be,” he concluded.
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