The award the Ballon D’Or for the best footballer of the year was awarded to the Manchester City midfielder, Rodrigo Hernandez Cascante. In all of the games that commenced last season which he has played for Manchester City, his team won every game, resulting him playing 74 games unbeaten. From this he has broken the world record. Although the award was not awarded to him without consequence. Real Madrid star players, Jude Bellingham and player, Vinicius Jr were expected to win the award as they have been widely recognised as the players that deserve the award the most. Zinedine Zidane, a French association football manager stated, “If we look at this year’s performances, Vinicius has truly excelled. He deserves recognition for his hard work and talent”. As a result of this the Real Madrid team decided to boycott the event and award and decode that they were not recognised for the talent of the players in their team. A few weeks ago, Nigeria also boycotted a football match because they believe they were treated unfairly. It seems that there is a common factor implemented that teams are now reacting to that they seemed to be “unfair”. Real Madrid said in a statement that they believe that the organisers of the event and the UEFA “don't respect them”, as their plyer, Vinicius Jr did not receive the award. A Man City midfielder won the award, as there was controversy surrounding that the team have breached rules in order to gain success, can we question if the team has done that yet again?
