Media outlets close to Florentino Pérez, led by Josep Pedrerol, have launched the campaign to boost Kylian Mbappé for the Ballon d'Or.
they don't learn from the beach Ballon d'Or
They don't learn. Last year, it wasn't enough for them when Vinícius took home the "beach Ballon d'Or" after they had already declared him the clear winner of the Ballon d'Or.
🏆 PEDREROL: "Si el MADRID GANA el MUNDIAL DE CLUBES... MBAPPÉ, BALÓN DE ORO"
Now it's Kylian Mbappé's turn, the player who left PSG to win the Champions League. He's already with Real Madrid and on Saturday he'll watch the final on TV. In that final will be the team he left behind to win everything dressed in white.
After seven years of disrespect, Florentino Pérez secured Mbappé's signing and now it's time to make him look good. That's why Josep Pedrerol is waving the Ballon d'Or flag for him.
He hasn't won anything and he doesn't have more merits than having been top scorer and Ballon d'Or winner thanks to penalties. In fact, he hasn't scored more goals from open play than Lewandowski. Moreover, his arrival at Bernabéu has only served to break up a team that was already built.
"I've never seen anything like it in my life"
But not everyone is trying to sell smoke like Josep Pedrerol. Zinedine Zidane, once a trusted man of Florentino Pérez, shows he has more personality.
He was asked about Lamine Yamal. He left no room for doubt: "When you see him play, for example, the semifinal against Inter Milan... I've never seen anything like it in my life."
"It's enough to see someone who masters his craft so much on the field, it's fabulous to watch him like that", he added.
Zidane joins the wave in favor of Lamine Yamal from the great legends of world soccer: "We all enjoy watching him - he said. That's why, for all these young people, Lamine is the one to watch".
el chiringuito: against the Spanish candidate and in favor of the foreigner from Real Madrid
As has become usual, El Chiringuito takes a stand against the Spanish candidate and in favor of the foreigner... from Real Madrid. It hurts them a lot when the Spanish anthem is booed, but when it comes to showing patriotism through actions, they always back the foreigner.
It already happened last year with Rodri and Vinícius. Before with Cristiano Ronaldo and Iniesta. Zidane has shown them all up and left them exposed.
Spain can boast, and does boast, of having a 17-year-old phenomenon who's destined to make history in soccer... but the Ballon d'Or for Mbappé, who wears white. That's their main argument.
The problem comes when they discover that the whole world isn't moving in the same direction.