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THE BALLON D'OR LOST ITS CREDIBILITY
When Lionel Messi won four Ballon d'Ors in a row from 2009 to 2012, Cristiano Ronaldo never said the award had lost its credibility.
When Messi was leading 4-1, despite Ronaldo being the first of the two to win it in 2008, he never said the award had lost its credibility. He fought harder. He wept on stage when he won it. He called it a dream.
Even in this video, where Messi leads 4-2 in the last six, with lovers and haters finally acknowledging something so glaring that they couldn't deny it anymore -
But history is important.
Fast forward to 2018. Ronaldo had just tied Messi at 5-5. He had just won three Champions Leagues in a row. The only thing left for Messi to hold over him was the Ballon d'Or count.
That night, in HD, live on television, they stopped him. They gave it to Luka Modric with the excuse of the World Cup and "something different." A sham reason they have never consistently applied.
And what did they do after stopping him? They broke their own criteria to give Messi two more, in 2019 and 2021, and then again in 2023, just to make it look like they, not the pitch, control his destiny and his story.
That is when he finally came out to say, "The Ballon d'Or has lost its credibility."
Since then, it has remained like that. The award that made him cry tears of joy as a boy from Madeira is now an award he doesn't even attend. He saw the light.
He stopped letting France Football write his story, and went back to writing it himself - with goals, with longevity, with 981+ goals.
He used to cry to win it. Now he smiles without it.
Zizou retweeted
I’ve always said that if Portugal wins, Ronaldo wins too. But if he isn’t part of that group anymore, then do we really care the same way?
Ronaldo is Portugal. That’s all there is to it.
The views will drop, and they’ll soon realise just how much his presence meant. You won’t see fans waiting outside airports and hotels like before, the revenue will drop considerably, and Portugal won’t be talked about globally in the same way they have been for all these years.
And a lot of that came down to one man… Cristiano Ronaldo.
I’ll back him until the very end. The GOAT. 🐐
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For those asking me what I’ll do, honestly, I don’t know.
I’m just taking things day by day, and who knows what tomorrow will bring.
But one thing I do know is that I’ll never support another player the way I supported Cristiano.
There’s something about watching him play that brought me a kind of excitement and joy that’s impossible to explain. It’s more than just football.
Life will go on, of course, but I genuinely feel like a part of my joy in watching football ends with him.
Zizou retweeted
They’ve doubted him before, and they’ve been proven wrong every single time.
Now they’re back again, disrespecting Cristiano Ronaldo as if he hasn’t spent two decades rewriting football history.
The GOAT never wastes time with words, he answers on the pitch. I’ve watched his entire journey, and not once have I lost faith in him.
Always with you, CR7 🐐❤️
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If there’s one thing I blame Cristiano Ronaldo for, it’s changing his personality.
I miss the arrogant, ruthless, selfish Ronaldo… the one who demanded the spotlight and imposed his presence on everyone, whether they liked it or not.
This softer version built on affection, love, and trying to please everyone doesn’t work with this generation.
Sometimes greatness needs ego, and the villain aura is exactly what makes people follow.
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🚨 Rio Ferdinand on why IShowSpeed might have accidentally done something most footballers and musicians can only dream of:
“People laugh at Speed because he’s loud, chaotic and completely unpredictable.
But I think football fans underestimate what he’s become.
This isn’t just a YouTuber anymore.
This is somebody who has managed to place himself right in the middle of football culture without ever kicking a professional ball.
Think about that for a second.
Some footballers spend 15 years building a fanbase and never achieve the level of global attention Speed gets from a single video.
And now he’s releasing a World Cup anthem that’s pulling millions of views within hours.
That’s not normal.
The reason it works is because Speed understands something a lot of people don’t.
Football isn’t just about football anymore.
It’s entertainment.
It’s emotion.
It’s culture.
It’s moments.
And somehow he’s managed to connect all four.
You watch the video and you see the World Cup atmosphere, the stadiums, the flags, the passion, the Ronaldo references, the chaos.
It feels like how football exists online today.
That’s why young fans connect with it instantly.
What’s really crazy is that FIFA are probably looking at the numbers and realizing he reaches audiences they struggle to reach themselves.
Twenty years ago, the face of the World Cup was a superstar footballer.
Today, one of the biggest ambassadors for football might be a streamer.
That’s how much the game has changed.
And whether people like it or not, Speed has built something very few people ever achieve.
He’s become bigger than a fan.
He’s become part of the football experience itself.
That’s why it wouldn’t shock me at all if FIFA eventually made him one of the faces of this World Cup.
Because when you think about who generates excitement for football among the next generation…
his name has to be near the top of the list.”
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🇵🇹 Félix really showed some nice dribbles this season, Fabinho, Ruben Neves, even Kante were not spared 😂
