Real Madrid Boss Mourinho Slams Ballon d’Or Winner Criteria

Aug 29, 2026 05:31 PM - 1 hour ago 2
Jose Mourinho slammed FC Barcelona's imaginable Ballon d'Or candidates.

Real Madrid caput coach Jose Mourinho has slammed the often cited criteria for winning the Ballon d'Or during a property convention to preview his team's Sunday nighttime conflict against Malaga.

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Real Madrid caput coach Jose Mourinho has slammed the often cited criteria for winning the Ballon d’Or during a property convention to preview his team’s Sunday day conflict against Malaga.

Unsurprisingly, the Portuguese backed his complaint Kylian Mbappe.

Asked who will beryllium awarded football’s highest individual honour for the world’s champion antheral player, which is voted connected by a France Football panel, Mourinho said: "It's a very beautiful point individually and it goes into the individual history of a player.

"It's normal that the 12 players of a very precocious level, of which we person 3 aliases four, person the ambition to triumph it.

“The Ballon d’Or has to beryllium 1 of those players who are missed for eternity erstwhile they retire: Ronaldinho, Ronaldo Nazario, Messi, Zidane... You can’t springiness the Ballon d’Or to personification because they person won the World Cup aliases the European Championship,” he said, successful a imaginable excavation astatine imaginable FC Barcelona candidates specified arsenic Rodri and Lamine Yamal.

“Before that, you person to springiness it to Luis Enrique aliases Luis De la Fuente for their activity pinch 2 awesome teams. But the champion subordinate successful the world does not person to beryllium from PSG aliases the Spanish nationalist team. We cognize who has made history this summer," Mourinho said, successful a motion to Mbappe.

"But past governmental issues travel into play that I don’t spell into,” he trailed off.

Real Madrid leader Mourinho besides isn’t a instrumentality of the world break

With this play seeing a 3 week break for the world crippled to return complete the almanac successful September, Mourinho confessed: “The nationalist squad games interest me.”

"It's a agelong time. The players who spell pinch the nationalist squad to play interest maine little than those who spell to the nationalist squad without playing.

"For example, pinch (Brazil boss) Carlo [Ancelotti] I will beryllium informed of the situation. Perhaps we tin speech data. With him it will not beryllium a problem.

“With others pinch whom location is nary relationship and trust, it is very complicated. We are going to person assurance successful the professionalism and respect of those coaches. I don’t want to dramatize excessively overmuch now, but it's a play successful which players are injured. While they are location aliases erstwhile they return. It's worrying, but it is what it is.”

Real Madrid takes connected Malaga astatine 17.00 section clip successful Spain connected Sunday afternoon.

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