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The Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, the Saudi Al-Nasr player, questioned the criteria adopted for awarding the Ballon d’Or, awarded by the French magazine “France Football”, and the Best Award given by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), and said that they had “lost their credibility.”
The year 2023 witnessed a state of controversy over the eligibility of Argentine Lionel Messi, the American star of Inter Miami, to win the “The Best” awards for the third time and the Golden Ball for the eighth time, despite the brilliance of Norwegian Erling Haaland, the English Manchester City striker, over the course of last season and his eligibility for them.
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Lionel Messi has been crowned #TheBest FIFA Men’s Player of 2023 🏆 pic.twitter.com/q5oAdUUSSn
— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) January 15, 2024
The Don said during his statements to the Portuguese newspaper “Record”, “I am used to it, and I know how these awards are decided. Frankly, I did not watch the best ceremony, but I think that these awards have lost their credibility in some way. We have to analyze the entire season.”
🚨 Ronaldo: “Ballon d’Or and The Best are losing credibility”.
“It’s not to say that Messi didn’t deserve it, or Haaland or even Mbappé… but the numbers are there and the numbers don’t deceive. You’ve to consider the entire season”.
“The numbers are facts”, told Record. pic.twitter.com/l7RtmmAIiW
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) January 21, 2024
The Portuguese star, who won the Ballon d’Or on five previous occasions, added, “The Ballon d’Or and the best lose their credibility. You have to analyze the entire season to make a choice. This does not mean that Messi did not deserve it, nor did Haaland, nor did Mbappe. But I no longer believe in these rewards. And I do not.” “I’m not saying that because I won the Globe Soccer Awards, but these are facts and figures. Numbers don’t lie.”
Ronaldo won two awards at the Globe Soccer ceremony, winning the Best Player in the Middle East Award, and the Maradona Award, which crowns the top scorer of the year, with him scoring 54 goals in 2023 with Al-Nasr and Portugal.
Ronaldo was crowned the world’s top scorer in 2023 after he succeeded in scoring 54 goals throughout the year, two goals ahead of Harry Kane, the German star of Bayern Munich, and Kylian Mbappé, the top scorer of Paris Saint-Germain.
