Antonio Cassano reveals he told Chelsea midfielder Jorginho it’d be ‘a scandal’ if he won the Ballon d’Or, and the Italy international agreed.
In public, Jorginho has shown interest in the rumours that he’ll be one of the favourites for the trophy, seeing as in 2021 he has won the Champions League, European Super Cup and UEFA EURO 2020.
Nonetheless, that argument did not convince Cassano, who would always give the award to Lionel Messi.
“Remember when I said any journalist who voted for Jorginho as Ballon d’Or should have his licence taken away?” Cassano told Christian Vieri on Bobo TV Twitch channel.
“Well, I was in Formentera with my family and just as I saw down, I felt a touch. ‘Antonio, you’re great!’ the voice says. I turn around to ask who he was, he took off his glasses and mask, and it was Jorginho!
“I told him, Jorgi, can you believe the scandal if they should give you the Ballon d’Or and not to Messi? He replied that he absolutely agreed with me, Messi should always win it.
“Now I admire Jorginho even more. We were talking for a good 90 minutes, he is an exceptional guy, very intelligent, humble and polite.”
Harvertz
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if winning trophies is the creterial then jorghino deserve it but if individual performance is the key then give it to lewandoski he outscored both Messi & Ronaldo
Lihbemnp
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if ballonor is about winning trophy then jorginho deserve it, if it's about individual performance then lewy deserve it, stop calling Messi name here, what's Copa America, just only three big country's in the competition, Messi don't deserve ballon dor
Professorvikky
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Even Jorginho knows Messi is gonna win the 7th
hakancaglanhoglu
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if he wins it then the ballon d or will lose its prestige....Messi deserves it for sure...If ronaldo had won the euros then he would have been in contention as well....Chelsea had a good season and the trophies they won were the result of collective brilliance... not due to jorginhos excellence...at club level kante played much better than jorginho ...
Olayinka11229
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Jorginho humbles himself so he could not also end up like Griezmann who says 'I'm now at the same level as Messi & Ronaldo'
Fodbdelmsz
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You guys always look one way , why Messi deserves this ?
BrightberrySS
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The pain directly goes to Turin again 😂😂
fury5710
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if ballonor is about winning trophy then jorginho deserve it, if it's about individual performance then lewy deserve it, stop calling Messi name here, what's Copa America, just only three big country's in the competition, Messi don't deserve ballon dor
haha kid check the stats messi has better individual performance
songsohia
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if ballonor is about winning trophy then jorginho deserve it, if it's about individual performance then lewy deserve it, stop calling Messi name here, what's Copa America, just only three big country's in the competition, Messi don't deserve ballon dor
Lewy didn’t even show up to Euros
SkullSwagger
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You guys always look one way , why Messi deserves this ?
Most Goal contributions this year In copa america : Top scorer Top assister Named player of the tournament Winner of the tournament Only player in football history to achieve this in a single international major tournament. And ofc then come the statistics of playing the game which he tops almost every year and people are taking it for granted. He is becoming a victim of his own brilliance