Days after the celebration of the Ballon d’Or gala, the absence of Real Madrid still resonates after learning that the winner of the prestigious award given by France Football was not going to go to Vinícius, but to Rodri. One of the last to speak out has been the German defender Mats Hummels, who has compared the whites’ position with the attitude of Donald Trump.
In the podcast that he himself makes, the Roma defender stated that the non-presence of the Chamartín club at the event “was slightly Trumpian” in reference to the former American president and again Republican candidate for the White House, who does not usually accept the electoral defeat with sportsmanship, in his case politics.
It was slightly Trumpian.”
“It is simply a lack of respect towards others,” added Hummels who, on the other hand, does not doubt the merits of several Real Madrid players to win the trophy. “But there are other fantastic players who are very good. Not doing them the honor is a bad thing. “There were teams that were at a greater disadvantage in international football, let me put it this way,” he said.
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The former world champion in 2014 with Germany also commented, laughing, that the position he finally occupied among the finalists for the award, the last one shared with his Roma teammate Artem Dovbyk, is “the most beautiful place in the world.” The veteran centre-back, who was at the Châtelet Theatre, sat in the front row, right next to the winner Rodri.
Rodri lifts the Ballon d’Or in Paris.
Hummels, 35 years old, who has spent his entire career at Bayern and Borussia Dortmund, the Whites’ rival in the last Champions League final, thus joins the criticism received by the vast majority of the football world towards the entity presided over by Florentino Pérez, who in Paris received the awards, although no one collected them, for best team of the year and best coach, for Carlo Ancelotti.
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