Ballon d’Or, it’s still controversy: Wesley Sneijder chimes in again

The awarding of the Ballon d'Or still makes people discuss

Five days have passed since Rodri was awarded the 2024 Golden Ball but the controversy around the final vote, raised mainly by Vinicius Jr. and Real Madrid, shows no signs of abating. And it is precisely a former Real player, Wesley Sneijder, who is adding to the dose: the Dutchman claims that he was himself snubbed in 2010, when with the Inter shirt he was among the key men in winning the Triplete.

"I would really say that they 'stole'the 2010 Ballon d'Or,” he said on the sidelines of the Esports World Cup, of which he is a guest these days.

It makes me happy that fourteen years later people are still talking about it and telling me that è just like that. Imagine if the opposite had happened, if I won it and someone said I stole it…".

"In any case, it is the team trophies that count the most for me,” added the Dutchman, who has worn the jerseys of Ajax, Galatasaray, Nice and Al-Gharafa, in addition to the Oranje, in addition to Real Madrid and Inter Milan; raising the Champions League that year was much more important to me".

For the record, in 2010 the prestigious individual trophy wentò to Lionel Messi, who scored the mostù in terms of preferences, surpassing Andres Iniesta and Xavi, teammates at Barcelona at the time. Sneijder, on the other hand, came in fourth place, in a ranking that also saw Samuel Eto'o in 12th place, Maicon in 17th and Julio Cesar in 19th.