Now six weeks before the Ballon d’Or ceremony, a real campaign is raging between the different applicants. And it is clear that not everyone has the same strategy. While Ousmane Dembélé refuses to campaign for himself, contenting himself with saying that the trophy must go to a PSG player, others are clearly preaching for their parish.
This is particularly the case of Lamine Yamal. Questioned at the microphone of Movistar+, the number 10 of FC Barcelona, runner-up to Ousmane Dembélé last season, claimed to deserve the trophy. Particularly because of the trophies won with FC Barcelona and Spain.
“Who would I give the Ballon d’Or to? To the best player in the world. Who will they give it to? It’s a long story. I sincerely believe that I deserve it this year, for what I won (Liga, World Cup)”, he confided.
Lamine Yamal does not put himself above Kylian Mbappé
However, Lamine Yamal does not consider himself the best player in the world. Or at least not alone. A rank that he believes he shares with the one who is increasingly the favorite despite his blank season in terms of trophies: Kylian Mbappé. “In my opinion, Mbappé and I are the two best players in the world. It’s very clear, and everyone who watches the matches knows it,” he added.
Lamine Yamal appeared more detached at the start of the week.
“I don’t need (to campaign to win the Ballon d’Or), I don’t think about it,” he said at a press conference. I’m proud of my team and my selection, we are world champions and I won La Liga, I can’t ask for better. It’s your job, I’m not going to start begging for anything. »
A position which contrasted with that of Kylian Mbappé and Real Madrid, clearly in the campaign. “When we play for Real Madrid, the best club in the world, we are inevitably associated with these kinds of individual awards. When people pass me in the street, they talk about me as a potential Ballon d’Or. It’s true that I made history this summer in the most prestigious competition in world sport, so I have the feeling that this may be the right year to win it.”notably confided the former Parisian.
