🚨𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓: France Football wanted to give a Ballon d'Or to Messi for his performance in the 2026 World Cup. But Lionel Messi lost all the individual awards and the World Cup Final 2026.
So Messi's PR launched a media campaign to get his fans to vote for Messi as the greatest Ballon d'Or winner of all time.
France Football made an award named "BOAT" - Best Ballon d'Or Of All Time. Messi won 8 Ballon d'Ors, and they wanted to give him another one to make it 9, and then the Super Ballon d'Or to make it 10. 10 for LM10. ✅
They made it a ONE EURO fee for the voting system so that no one could vote for free and kids couldn't give votes. The people should be 18+ to vote because there are a lot of Ronaldo fans among young children. They get inspired by Ronaldo. They love Ronaldo.
But even after this criteria, Ronaldo's 2008 got 62% of the votes in just one day. They understood that Ronaldo might win. And they can't give another Ballon d'Or to Ronaldo. So they changed their award and statement overnight, saying that there is no physical trophy for "BOAT" and that it's just a fan poll.
What was equal to the Ballon d'Or became an online poll. And they knew that even if Ronaldo wins the BOAT, he will not go to take that. That would be an insult to France Football.
The story isn't even finished yet. Even after that, Ronaldo got 72% and then 75% of the votes for his 2008 Ballon d'Or, while Messi's 2012 is only the highest vote with 9%.
Then they stopped the voting for Ronaldo's 2008. You can't vote for that, but you can vote for Ronaldo 2017. But still, Cristiano Ronaldo won the BOAT, Best Ballon d'Or of All Time. 🐐🏆
Ronaldo won the BOAT while only having 5 Ballon d'Ors, while Messi lost having 8. ❌
Ronaldo is the only player in the history of football who won the Ballon d'Or 5 times and then exposed the Ballon d'Or publicly.
The people voted for the Best Ballon D'or Winner of All Time, and Ronaldo stopped another Ballon d'Or robbery.