“I waited all year for Vini Jr to be deservedly recognized as the best player today. And now you come to tell me that the Ballon d’Or is not for him?”said the Brazilian forward Marten in a video on your account instagram.
“What Ballon d’Or is that? What Ballon d’Or is that? No, it’s over”said the so-called “Queen of Soccer”, owner of a Ballon d’Or and five awards for the best player of the FIFA.
In the country of football, it was assumed that the Seleção attacker, who did not attend the gala, would keep the famous individual distinction after his outstanding season with the real Madrid.
Spirits, however, began to fall early on, after the ‘merengues’ were absent from the ceremony when they learned that their footballer was not going to be awarded.
Rodriof the Manchester Citybroke the illusions of a Brazil distanced from the “Canarinha” and where many question the quality of the current generation of footballers.
Since kaka won it in 2007For 17 years now, no Brazilian has climbed to the top step of world football again. Neymar brushed him twice (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 West Ham shirt. Flamengo of Rio de Janeiro.
The ‘Fla’, where it emerged Viniciusexpressed 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 is so easy to know!”said the most popular club in Brazil in x.
On the social networks of the Latin American giant, “Vini” and “Racismo” were trending, 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 it twice as well if you are at least a hundred times behind?… Because of slavery, because of prejudices , for history”wrote the Brazilian attacker Ludmila Silva in xciting a song by the rap group You ration MC’s.
While driving by River and published a photo of the star real Madrid in your profile at instagramthe black taxi driver Marcio Ricardo Azevedo45 years old, lamented the defeat.
“I’m upset”but “I think his fight is much bigger than an award ceremony. What he is doing is a legacy”he said to the 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 displayed a Seleção shirt with the number 7 and the name Vini Jr on the back.
“They have to respect (…) he is the best in the world and that’s it”he said in a broadcast by the American youtuber IShowSpeed.
Source: Ambito
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