«There are journalists who no one knows and have entered to vote this year, without the votes of journalists from these countries like Uganda, Namibia, Albania and Finland, Vinicius would have won this Ballon d’Or… The system must change and they have to “be recognized people who risk their prestige with those votes,” he declared. Florentino Perez about the award’s voting system. Sheefeni Nicodemusjournalist ‘The Namibian’has responded to these statements in ‘El Larguero’ from Cadena SER.
The Namibian journalist who voted in the #GoldenBall responds to Florentino Pérez in #ElLarguero
“These are the words of someone FRUSTRATED”
“Feel that the people of my country and the other countries mentioned do not have a meaningful vote because we are inferior people” pic.twitter.com/MjkR0DYIoG
— El Larguero (@ellarguero) November 25, 2024
“These are just words from someone frustrated,” he replied. Nicodemus in the Spanish media program. The journalist did not consider Vinicius to enter the Top 10 of his vote, but he did choose Jude Bellinghamalso a player of the real Madridlike the best in the world.
During his speech at the assembly of the Madrid institution, the top white leader assured that “everyone understands that journalists risk their reputation with their vote, we do not know who voted and some countries that we do not even know, due to all these circumstances we do not “We went to the Ballon d’Or Gala.”
These words did not sit well with Nicodemus and this is what he expressed in the interview, accusing him of xenophobia: «I feel that the people of my country and the other countries mentioned do not have a significant vote because we are inferior people. I’d just like to know, if I were from a major football nation and I didn’t agree with your opinion, what would your argument be?
Namibia It is a state that was born in 1990 and has a population of 2.6 million inhabitants. Along with this African country, they are El Salvador and Finland the other two countries that have not included Vinicius Jr. in your Ballon d’Or Top 10.
On November 9, Juha KanervaFinnish journalist ‘Ilta-Sanomat’resigned after acknowledging that he was wrong to not include the Brazilian in his list of ten players. “The Finnish journalist has resigned, recognizing his mistake and has said that he will no longer be part of the Ballon d’Or. I thank him, at least, he recognizes it,” he declared. Florentino Perez about this resignation.
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