Sao Paulo, Brazil /
He Ballon d’Or cattle for him Spanish midfielder Rodri this Monday in Paris fell very badly in Brazil, that he was excited that the attacker Vinicius Jr won the prestigious award.
“I waited all year for Vini Jr to be deservedly recognized as the best player today. “And now you’re coming to tell me that the Ballon d’Or is not for him?” said the Brazilian forward. Marten in a video on your account instagram.
“Which Ballon d’Or is that? Which Ballon d’Or is that? “No, it’s over,” the call said, annoying. queen of soccer, owner of a Ballon d’Or and five awards for the best FIFA player.
In the country of soccer assumed that the attacker of the Selectionwho did not attend the gala, would keep the famous distinction individual after his outstanding season with Real Madrid.
Spirits, however, began to fall early, after the Meringues they will be absent from the ceremony to the know that his footballer was not going to be awarded.
Rodrifrom Manchester City, broke the illusions of a Brazil distanced from the Canarinha and where not a few question the quality of the current generation of footballers.
Since Kaká won it in 2007, 17 years ago, no Brazilian has climbed back onto the step highest in world football. Neymar narrowly missed it on two occasions (2015 and 2017) by taking third place.
“Vini, your roots are golden. We will always be together”stated the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) in a message on Instagram inscribed in a dark image in which the winger appears with his right fist raised.
“You are the best even though they say otherwise,” wrote the midfielder of the Brazilian team Lucas Paquetá (West Ham) in a publication on the same social network that he accompanied with a photograph of both wearing the Flamengo de Rio de Janeiro shirt.
“You are the best”
He Flawhere Vinicius emerged, expressed his love for his youth player and asked him to “keep dancing.”
“There was great expectation before the coronation day. But if it did not come from those who voted in the questioned awards, It comes and will come from those who know that you are the best. And it’s so easy to know!” said the most popular club in Brazil on X.
At the end of Excalibur, King Arthur retreats with the sword, as none other was capable of, and proves his nobility, at the end of our king, another Arthur dressed the mantle with the same naturalness and pledged to be the majesty of more than 40 thousand subjects.
This is how to defraud… pic.twitter.com/PjQhz6cKqH
— Flamengo (@Flamengo) October 28, 2024
They were a trend on the social networks of the Latin American giant “Vini” and “Racism”mentioned by many as an alleged reason for not rewarding the black winger of the Canarinha, which has made the fight against racial discrimination one of its flags.
“Since we were little, our mother tells us: son, Because you are black you have to be twice as good. A few years later I thought: how can you do twice as well if you are at least a hundred times behind?… Because of slavery, because of prejudice, because of history,” wrote the Brazilian attacker Ludmila Silva in xciting a song by the rap group Racionais MC’s.
I have to prove
Since I give in to most people, I fail like this: filho, por você ser preto, você tem que ser duas vezes melhor. A few years passed and I thought: how to do better twice, if you are less and less behind…
Pela escravidão, pelo preconceito, pela história,…— Ludmila Silva (@ALudmilaSilva) October 28, 2024
While driving through Rio and posting a photo of the Real Madrid star on his profile on instagramblack taxi driver Marcio Ricardo Azevedo, 45, lamented the defeat.
“I’m upset,” but “I think their fight is much bigger than an award ceremony. What he is doing is a legacy,” he told AFP.
The support of Brazilians for Vinicius was also felt on the red carpet of the ceremony, at the Chatelet Theater in Paris.
The famous influencer Luva de Pedreiro exhibited a t-shirt of the Selection with the number 7 and the name Vini Jr on the back.
“They have to respect (…) he is the best in the world, period,” he said in a broadcast by the American YouTuber IShowSpeed.
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