Leo Messi officially won the 2023 Golden Ball after defeating his strongest opponent, Erling Haaland.
In fact, the controversy appeared before the award ceremony took place and after Messi received the award, the controversy broke out much more fiercely.
One of them is the notable statement of Rafaela Pimienta, Erling Haaland’s representative.
“Haaland won the treble with Manchester City. He was the leader who led them to the first UEFA Champions League title in the team’s history. He scored and scored… How many goals? I even even forgot to count”.
I’m really speechless. How could this even be true? What else does he have to do to win the Golden Ball? The only thing I have to say right now is that Haaland was robbed.”
“If you trade Haaland’s achievements and the winner (Messi), there is no way Haaland will have a chance to be among the top 5 candidates, let alone the award. Obviously, France Football has put made a biased decision. I’m not interested in talking about this issue anymore, shameful.”
Rafaela Pimienta’s statements received a lot of attention from fans, and the agreement is huge on the social networking platform Twitter. The searches about the robbery that Haaland suffered were even more than the searches about Leo Messi winning his 8th Golden Ball.