Franck Ribery Problems Cristiano Ronaldo's 'Political' Ballon d'Or Victory.

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A report by German newspaper AZ (h/t Stefan Coerts on Goal.com) quotes Ribery saying:

    I won everything I could win with Bayern and individually. Ronaldo on the other hand did not win anything.

    I am not sad that I missed out, but it does hurt a bit. I deserved to win the Ballon d'Or.

    It was clear that Ronaldo would win it. The voting deadline was extended by two weeks. This had never happened before. It wasn't about football. It was a political decision.

Ribery was part of a Bayern Munich team that dominated world and European football in 2013, winning five major trophies.

Ronaldo, meanwhile, finished the year with no silverware to show as a Real Madrid player, although he did eclipse Ribery when the two are compared individually.

For every BBC Game, your England intercontinental won 66 ambitions throughout 56 shows over 4 seasons along with in addition made it easier for the land be entitled to your 2014 Entire world Glass using a pair of match-winning demonstrates versus Sweden inside play-offs, which include a new hat-trick inside subsequent knee.

Though Ribery ended up being perhaps the ideal crew throughout Bayern Munich's record, they ended up being one particular of countless essential factors throughout a new crew model, as opposed to the essential, which in turn Ronaldo can be in True.

Bayern's ideal energy ended up being his or her deficiency of reliance one certain gamer. Via goalkeeper Manuel Neuer by way of opponents Arjen Robben along with Jones Mueller, the inside don't low fat in just about any gamer, so that it is challenging to watch Ribery just as one spectacular particular person.
Your England intercontinental in addition usually takes exemption on the off shoot in the voting final target time, while described by simply Ian Ladyman inside Day-to-day Snail mail, a thing Ribery is convinced presented Ronaldo a bonus, mainly because it granted to the add-on involving the ambitions versus Sweden on the globe Glass qualifiers.

On the other hand, immediately after filling out a new clean up carry involving trophies using Bayern-and hunting a considerable gamble for you to preserve a few these people there is much surprise within the pro operations involving Pep Guardiola-maybe Ribery need to target precisely what she has reached in lieu of precisely what they doesn't have.