FNX Magokiler Posted December 29, 2023 Posted December 29, 2023 Lionel Messi continues to show his validity at 36 years old as the best footballer in the world. The only thing he needed to win was a World Cup with the Argentine team and he achieved it in Qatar 2022. He continued to make merits to obtain more awards and recognitions such as his eighth Ballon d'Or. However, some do not consider it that way and think that it was not a fair winner, such is the case of a figure from Manchester City, brand new champion of the Club World Cup. This is the Portuguese Bernardo Silva, who believes that the recipient of that award should have been his teammate, Erling Haaland, who is the striker of the Ciudadano team and became a key piece in the cast led by Pep Guardiola, who this year for for the first time in its history it was able to lift a Champions League. “If Bayern wins the Champions League, the Bayern striker who scored 40 goals in the season will win the Ballon d'Or. City wins the Champions League and coincidentally it wasn't Haaland, because Messi won the World Cup. If it had not been for Messi's World Cup, it would have been Haaland who would have won the Ballon d'Or," Silva said in an interview with the A Bola site. His response was to the question of whether statistics prevented him from fighting for the Ballon d'Or. “Without a doubt, nowadays, when looking at individual trophies, people pay a lot of attention to statistics. Normally, they are the players who score the most goals,” he responded. He then expanded on his concept and explained: “Real Madrid wins the Champions League and the Spanish championship, and it is Benzema who wins the Ballon d'Or. Normally, the scorers end up winning individual awards. If I agree, honestly? No. They can even win, because sometimes they can even be the most influential. Now, by criteria I don't agree with the idea that only those who score goals should win the Ballon d'Or, but that's how football works. Football is a goal and people celebrate when the last touch is given, but if we think about football as a whole there is a whole process until there is that final touch for the ball to enter the net, right? On the other hand, he said that he lives a dream every day by being able to be coached by Guardiola. “When I was young, I saw that Barça made up of young players like Xavi, Iniesta and Messi, and being coached by Pep. That was an inspiration for me. Watching a Barcelona match was undoubtedly an inspiration and one of my dreams was for Pep to coach me. “They taught me, at a difficult time for me, that size (height) did not matter.” Meanwhile, he argued why his compatriot João Félix did not fit into Atlético Madrid coached by Diego Simeone. “I arrived at a club (Manchester City) to which my qualities suited, and he did not. https://www.infobae.com/deportes/2023/12/29/la-filosa-critica-de-una-figura-del-manchester-city-a-lionel-messi-por-su-octavo-balon-de-oro/
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