German newspapers: Messi's Ballon d'Or win is a "scandal"
Many German newspapers today considered that Argentine Lionel Messi's award for the Ballon d'Or for the seventh time is a "scandal", bearing the responsibility of the management of the French magazine "France Football", which awards the award every year to the best player.
She stated that Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski is the one who deserves it, and that "Messi did not offer anything to help him last season to win the award."
The German newspaper, "Bild", wrote on its front cover, "Scandal", with a picture of Lionel Messi holding the award.
She said that Lewandowski was wronged when the 2020 award was canceled due to the pandemic, and that even in the 2021 season, he achieved amazing numbers that far surpass what Lionel Messi did, who suffered both with Barcelona, and he was also not the one who provided the best performance in Argentina when it crowned the Copa Cup. America, according to the newspaper.
Many German newspapers and websites questioned the sincerity of the mechanism adopted by the magazine to crown Messi, as he considered that the matter was a great injustice to the players and stars who gave a lot in the past few seasons, more than what Lionel Messi did.
Criticism of awarding the award to Messi did not stop at Germany, but extended to Spain and England, where many current and former stars stated that Lewandowski was more deserving of it, including former goalkeeper Iker Casillas, as well as Real Madrid's German star Toni Kroos, while the English newspaper "The Guardian" considered The French club Paris Saint-Germain, without his name in the record of the clubs crowned with the award, but not for something Messi did with him, but away from him, while when a player like Neymar moved to him in order to win it, he did not achieve this despite the many years he spent in Paris , and still.
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