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Messi's golden ball: from Ronaldo's sisters to van Dijk, to social media. It's all against everyone

December 3, 2019

TURIN – Defended by Juventus, supported by the family. The missed Golden Ball to Ronaldo, but perhaps even more the victory of the bitter rival Leo Messi who overcame him putting his sixth in his career, provoked the reaction of those who live alongside CR7, professionally and humanly. The first reactions came last night, on the sidelines of the AIC Football Grand Gala, which saw the Portuguese receive the award for best footballer of the last Serie A: "The theft of Ronaldo was last year – it was Giorgio's words Chiellini on Sky microphones – Real Madrid decided not to let him win, it was obvious. Modric wasn't even in his best year, but this year it was difficult with Ronaldo, Messi and Van Dijk. ".Despite the fact that last year it was Real Madrid that prevented, according to Chiellini, the triumph of Ronaldo, the prize according to the Juventus captain should have ended up in France: "The Ballon d'Or last year, according to logic, they would have had to win Griezmann or Mbappe ". Words followed the more balanced ones of Paratici ("We have always said that we think he deserved to win the Ballon d'Or, the rankings of the prizes are always questionable"), always released in Milan for the AIC awards.

Ronaldo's sisters go wild

The barrage continued on the social media, on which the two sisters of Cristiano, Katia and Elma, did not spare either Messi or Van Dijk, accused of having sarcastically responded to the question about Cristiano Ronaldo ("he was really in a race for the Ballon 'gold?"). "Dear Virgil, when you win titles that really matter, we'll talk about them. Ronaldo already has five of these awards – Katia Aveiro's piqued Instagram response – I think some people live in frustration and out of reality. Ronaldo is not known to win tonight's prize, even though he has won important collective titles, but this is another conversation and we'll see when the truth about football comes out See, my dear Virgil, Cristiano Ronaldo was a champion in the country you have been playing for years "He was also the best scorer in the Premier League. When you win a handful of the titles he has won, you will be able to sit at the table with Cristiano."

Katia's words were followed by those of Ronaldo's other sister, Elma dos Santos Aveiro, who in a post on Instagram, later deleted, spoke openly about football in the mafia: "Maybe I don't understand anything about football because I always heard that whoever wins this prize should be at the level of the qualifications he has obtained. I have nothing against this guy (Messi, ed), but I don't know what won more than my brother. Perhaps this award is given to the person and never to the professional This only shows that we are really very small and the mafia will never be on the weak side, but justice is slow and never fails and Portugal at the right time gives the answer to (big) beasts.

On social criticism of Messi's victory

But the success of Messi has aroused much criticism even on social media: "Yet another gift after 2010, should not even be on the podium", writes a user referring to the 2009/2010 season in which Inter won the triple and Wesley Sneijder, one of the protagonists of that team, brought his Holland to the World Cup final, then won by Spain. Many believed that the game would be between him and Iniesta and instead it was the 10th blaugrana that caused the wrath of several enthusiasts.

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