Three players, three nearly identical statements: “I deserve the Ballon d’Or”. Kylian Mbappé, Fabián Ruiz and Lamine Yamal said it without hesitation in front of the cameras, each convinced that the trophy should bear their name this year.
And then someone put the usual video alongside it: Lionel Messi, with that calm smile, saying the opposite. “I don’t care about individual awards”, said the Argentine, an eight-time winner of the honor, as if talking about something that had never kept him up at night.
The fans didn’t let the irony pass. “For this reason, there will never be another like Messi”, they wrote on social media, comparing this generation’s declared ambition with the genuine indifference of someone who has already won it all without asking for it 🐐⚽
