Manchester City midfielder, Rodri has come out to back Lionel Messi to win his eighth Ballon d’Or award ahead of Erling Haaland. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, even if Haaland had a great season with exceptional numbers on the pitch, he expects Lionel Messi to clinch the award ahead of him.
Rodri added that he is not thinking about individual awards personally, and he would rather focus on the team.
His words, “I think a certain Leo Messi is going to take it. Haaland is also a very large figure and has merits.”
On if he deserves it too, “I know it’s an individual award with a lot of marketing. Among the monsters I’m with, of course, I lacked marketing, like Xavi and Iniesta. I worry about the things I can control, which is the collective awards.”
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Erling Braut Haaland is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester City and the Norway national team. Considered one of the best players in the world, he is known for his speed, strength, positioning, and finishing inside the box. Haaland holds the record for the most goals scored by a player in a single Premier League season, with 36.
Haaland was born on 21 July 2000 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, as his father Alfie Haaland was playing for Leeds United in the Premier League at the time. In 2004, at the age of three, he moved to Bryne, his parents’ hometown in Norway.
Along with playing football from an early age, Haaland took part in various other sports as a child, including handball, golf, and track and field. He also reportedly achieved a world record in his age category for the standing long jump when he was five, with a recorded distance of 1.63 metres in 2006.
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