Jorge Messi answers to the critics: “Blah, blah, blah, continue”

France Football unveiled the best kept secret this Monday and Leo Messi was crowned for the seventh time as the best player of the year, taking home the Ballon d’Or again.

The Argentine was the leader of the voting with 613 points, thus beating Robert Lewandowski, who added 580, and Jorginho, who closes the podium with 460 points. Karim Benzema, who was aiming as a favorite, went to fourth place and Cristiano, another series winner of the trophy, to sixth.

A victory that has earned numerous criticisms to which Jorge Messi, father of the winner of the Ballon d’Or, wanted to react also through social networks. The Argentine uploaded a photo of Leo posing in the theater with his seventh Ballon d’Or and an ironic reply to his critics, joking their complaints. “Blah blah blah … carry on,” he wrote.

Criticisms of the awarding of the trophy have come from different areas such as Iker Casillas (“For me, Messi, he is one of the 5 best players in all of history but you have to begin to know how to catalog who are the most outstanding after a season “), Toni Kroos (” For me, Benzema would have been number one if you were really looking for the best individual player “) or from Robert Lewandowski’s agent, Pini Zahavi, who assured that the” 2021 Ballon d’Or it belongs “and that” Robert had been robbed. ” These criticisms were also joined by Matthaüs and Cristiano Ronaldo, who described as “facts” a post that recovered his season and called the award “regrettable”.