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Ballon d'Or: lobbying, fantasy or reality?

2021-11-09T08:20:16.770Z


For a long time the prerogative of the most upscale clubs and the most significant of the time of the Messi-Ronaldo rivalry, lobbying for the Ballon d'Or is no longer really relevant since only journalists vote.


Three more weeks of waiting.

On November 29, the winner of the Ballon d'Or 2021 will be nominated live from the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.

A ceremony that will sound the death knell for the litany of predictions and even innuendos, like the last rumor from Portugal, reporting the seventh coronation of Lionel Messi.

Joined by Le

Figaro

, Pascal Ferré, the editor-in-chief of

France Football

, naturally denies these rumors.

Ransom for the glory of the most prestigious of individual awards: “

We're used to it, people get impatient, especially since it's the first Ballon d'Or for two years.

We are the first to want to give the result as quickly as possible.

"

To discover

  • Ballon d'Or: prize list, results, full ranking ...

A few days earlier, two “official” rankings were relayed on social networks.

The first crowned Robert Lewandowski, the second Lionel Messi.

These are

fakes

, for the simple reason that no ranking has been printed

, insists Pascal Ferré.

Like the leaves that fall in autumn,

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Source: lefigaro

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