₦airaland Forum

Sugarboyy:
Even if Vinicius wasn't given, I don't think it's because of his skin colour, that's what I'm trying to correct. Of course Vinicius had a better season than Rodri. Personally, Rodri wasn't even the best player at the last Euro, Ruiz was to me

Even if they wanted to use the euros, why not give it to carvahal

Sugarboyy:
Blacks always displaying victims mentality.

Bro you really think that rodri had a better individual season than vinicious? Common brother, let’s call a spade a spade

Rodri wins the BDO ahead of Vini jr what a sad day and cheating on a Black man. The same award that Iniesta, pirlo, Xavi, Sneider, Henry, berghamp couldn’t win is what they hand to Rodri. OJORO everywhere

TheSuperNerd:
FIFA Award still holds supreme even with a new name (FIFA The Best). FIFA >>> France Football in prestige. The Ballon D'or's popularity today stems from their 2010-2015 association with FIFA. Facts.
I said it as much that since 2016, Ballo D'or saw a surge in their popularity in the football World.

And FIFA World Player of the Year always stood supreme over the Ballon D'or especially evident in the wider voting pool employed in the FIFA awards unlike the restricted voting pool of the ballon d'or.

Convulsing as you usually do all over the place still won't get you Lookman's or Osimhen's Jersey which you cried for that year. 😂😂

Typical foul mouthed attention seeking Ignoramus. Now run along.

I can tell that you’re a Gen Z my boy for saying the FIFA player of the year holds more weight than the ballon d’or on an individual level.
Audience can you guys step in and answer
Ballon d’or or FIFA player of the year, which one holds more weight on an individual award for players. There’s no need for us to insult each other

TheSuperNerd:
A noisemaker just displaying his ignorance. Who holds more weight between FIFA and France Football? Just look at this ignorant talkative. Nonsense. Abeg scram.

Typical Gen Z Mumu why aren’t people excited about the FIFA player of the year award this year and everyone is salivating over the Balon D’or. Mechionu onu gi obele nwa Gen Z. When it comes to individual award, Balon D’or holds supreme. Someone else should conduct their research and make an input

TheSuperNerd:
Wrong again, Ignoramus padawan. The FIFA World Player of the year award even in the 90s held more sway globally than the Ballon Dor.

It is only in recent times since 2016 that the Ballon Dor began fully milking the popularity of their award due to its 5yrs association with FIFA between 2010 and 2015.

The FIFA World Player of the year remained the pinnacle award individually in football above the ballon dor. Even in the year Zidane was crowned FIFA World Player of the year in 2000, the Ballon Dor gave it to Luis Figo but Zidane was more recognised as FIFA is the global authority on the game and the highest pinnacle of Football... not France football.


Even the voting process alone shows this.

For the Ballon D'or, the winner is selected by an international panel of journalists from various countries. Each journalist submits a list of their top five players, with points awarded based on rankings.

But for the FIFA awards, it involves a broader voting pool, with votes coming from national team coaches, captains, journalists, and fans. Fans vote through an online platform, contributing to the overall outcome.

How can anyone that existed when George Weah won the balon d’or in 1995 and saw the pandemonium that existed in the continent for winning that award despite the fact that he also won the FIFA player of the year award say that fifa award has more weight than the BDO. If you weren’t born that year, ask your OG’s to teach you history my boy. Like I said, Ask any football fanatic between the Balon D’or vs the FIFA award, which one holds more weight individually even prior to 2016. Audience, we’re asking you guys a legitimate question
Balon d’or vs FIFA player of the year, which one holds more weight individually??

TheSuperNerd:
I can tell you are an unrepentant attention seeking ignoramus. The Ballon D'or only went fully global in 2007. It was restricted to European players only since 1956 until 1995 where they expanded it to include players of other nationalities based in Europe ONLY. They finally went fully global in 2007. So shut the f** up and get off my mention, boy.

The FIFA World Player of the Year always trumped the Ballon Dor in recognition since inception. That is facts.

Yes, it was restricted to only European players until 1995 and since that 1995, the BDO held more weight than the fifa award. I remember when George Weah won it in 1995 and the entire continent went haywire even though he also won the fifa award that year. Since 1995, the BDO has held more weight than the fifa award up until today my boy

TheSuperNerd:
Lamine Yamal EXPECTEDLY wins the Ballon D'or Kopa Trophy for Best U21 Talent in the world. Well deserved.

I can tell that your a GEN Z lol the BDO has always held more value than the fifa world player of the year since its inception

Surely lookman has done enough to be signed by one of the European Giants like Liverpool, Arsenal or juventus. I love the fact that he is media trained, professional and has a good work ethic. Now, he is officially SE best player and the face of our football for this season

Congrats lookman. Please, do not allow or near any Nigerian celebrity near you. Avoid them with all your power

The way jackson is playing this season I doubt if Chelsea will offer astronomical wages to any striker not Haaland. Anyway, let’s see how things go

Emmy450:
🤣🤣 he argued the other day that obafemi was better than osimhen,
thus using his logic he should agree that osimhen is better than obafemi,
Since osimhen is an APOTY winner and obafemi martins was not🤣🤣

I argued that martins is better than osimhen?? Na so una go use people Dey lie. When did martins became GEORGE WEAH??

BankyGee:
Seems so, and it's cool that way. Guirassy didn't perform on African soil tho.

His club performance was EXCEPTIONAL and he at least played at afcon. Nomination well deserved. Next year own wouldn’t consider again because afcon will be played in December

BankyGee:
Top ten most valuable African Players not nominated for the African Player of the Year award. ✅

They’re setting a new precedence that players must perform in African soil to be nominated

Fisayo bashiru assisted today

[quote author=Starboytwo post=132578264]Maldini or canavaro. Choose one sir [/quote
Haha

Boniface is a player that has the ability to be like weah, ronaldo, Suarez in terms of sheer ability and talent and I just wish an advisor can konk his head to get him Serious.

Emmy450:
rest this matter na.
Trophies for trophies Eto is clear
Talent for talent Eto was clear
Goals for goals Eto is clear
Impact for impact in African soil Eto was clear
there's no yardstick where Eto doesn't triumph over weah except the ballon d'or.. just rest this matter

You forgot the Number 1 individual trophy of all footballer, as if that’s not enough, he won the 2nd most important individual trophy for a footballer even defeating the legendary Maldini. Omo he is the GOAT until I see another African player with this trophy. If Salah like, make dem score 2000 goals at Epl that one na their papa business

semid4lyfe:
Bannedlargejr

Why are you always insulting people?

You are hereby warned to desist henceforth.

Uncle na so football analysis Dey sweet. I give people permission to give me gbos if I misyarn. It’s not personal Uncle. Omo in those day at Mushin olosha, the way insults Dey fly during analysis, you will think that people hate each other. It’s all love

mank1234:
Don't mind him.
So many players that couldn't win it during the Messi-Ronaldo dynasty would now look like they are inferior to Weah just because of one season that Weah used to win World player of the year.

My boy, the 1990’s era is one of the most historic era in football. These era had Worldclass players like batistuta, Del piero, rui costa, Maldini, Zidane, romerio, roberto baggio, Ronaldo da lima (44 goals in 1995) Jj okocha, laudrup, klinsman, litmanen, Luis Figo, Rivaldo and for an African player to Win the Balon D’or during that period, just know that he was EXCEPTIONAL. The mistake that many Gen Z make is using only “Statistics” to measure a player ability rather than watching that player. Trust me, ability, performance and talent wise, George Weah is the African GOAT until someone else decide to win that Balon D’or trophy. I don’t care how many collective trophies that player won.
The fact that someone that watch Ronaldo da Lima in 1995 absolutely tearing the Dutch league and Weah still defeated him speaks Volume. The man didn’t only win a Balon D’or, in addition to that, he also won the FIFA player of the year award. The fact that Weah wasn’t even one of the top scorers at Lique 1 and still won those awards speaks volume of his abilities. Football my boy no be statistics. You have to watch the game

Emmy450:
No victor Boniface in CAF shortlist.. 💔 it's really sad💔

But on the brighter side we have Ekong and lookman..✓

He went on camera saying that him or lookman will win the award and are the favorites despite not playing any Aston game. Our boys needs media training

Napoleon55:
R9 and Zidan are not yet in their prime when Weah won his balon d'or,that being said,
Anyone who follows football and want to be fair will admit that Eto'o is the greatest African footballer for now.

His achievements in football surpasses that of George Weah,
balon d'or is the only honor Weah has over Eto which he came close to winning.

Eto has 3 champions league trophies to George Weah's none.

Eto'o has 2 AFCONs to George Weah's none

Eto'o has almost double of George Weah's career goals.
Weah never played in a world cup game before.

So winning balon d'or is not the only thing that make one player greater than another,u have to consider other things as well.

Psv R9 was very lethal my boy and as long as no African player can hold this title, WEAH remains the GOAT. If it’s easy, Etoo for run am

Well, your ratings doesn’t matter and anyone that wants to surpass weah needs to match or surpass this award. Do you think it’s easy for any African man to win a Balon d’or in an era of Prime Ronaldo fenomeno, Zidane, Maldini, stoickov, Romerio, baggio, batistuta, del piero, laudrup, OMG the early 90’s had so many Football legends and a forking African man won the Balon d’or. In African football, weah is greater than Etoo, drogba, okocha, Milla, Salah, Mane, Mahrez and is a youngster that you want to compare him to weah.

Although, mbappe is a much better overall player than osimehn, I believe that Madrid needed a prime osimehn more than mbappe. They already had Vini (Balon d’or winner) playing at mbappe position and needed a world class striker not wing/forward. African players needs better PR/Agents to maximize their potential. Anyway, it’s not too late for osimehn, lookmqn and boniface to hire the best Agents, PR Organization and marketer. They all have the ability to be consistent world class players

kennysville:
I don't know if I am the one that doesn't know what football is but it seemed Gala has a non existent midfield. I don't see them doing well in the UEL. Too much of lax attitude and lack of urgency

The same non existent midfield has icardi scoring like water. Nigerians tend to insult clubs when their players don’t score. Just support your team in good and in bad

BankyGee:
You're not getting the point, the Ballon d'Or shows that a player is good, fine. But there are great strikers out there that even had the numbers than George Weah but didn't win the Ballon d'Or.

So a good "striker" is not judged by how many Ballon d'Ors he has or doesn't have. Emphasis on "striker".

No one said anything about not being a good striker or being a good striker. You were talking about “GOAT status” and I highlighted the fact that, to surpass the incumbent Goat you have to match or even surpass his individual awards and balon d’or is the highest individual award

BankyGee:
Last time I checked, the Ballon d'Or is not a metric used to identify a good striker.

Osimhen might've even forgotten that he has demolished George Weah's record in the Serie A, by far.

My guy, for any African player to surpass George Weah, they have to win the highest individual award in football “balon d’or” this is exactly why the likes of etoo, drogba aren’t even ranked ahead of weah let alone osimehn. I don’t give a fck about your emotional attachment to any player I’m here to be unbiased

Tessyy1701:
English is not hard, you are the one that decides not to pay attention to the details

You really think he will win the balon d’or before he retires because for anyone to surpass weah, they have to win the Balon d’or

BankyGee:
Osim-AIR is not just a name. That guy na Airbender, always loves doing stuff in the air ✈️

No be their papa mate! Currently the best African Striker alive and will be the best African striker EVER by the time he retires!

Best African striker ever ahead of etoo, weah and drogba? The madness on this platform is definitely irreversible