In fact, it has been a few days since the 2024 Ballon d’Or was announced in the early morning of October 29. In the past few days, the topic of the so-called Ballon d’Or reversal and the fact that the entire Real Madrid team did not attend the Ballon d’Or ceremony has already filled all major media platforms.
Among them, the debate on the topic of “Vinicius vs. Rodri” has actually been going on almost since the second half of this year. After all, as the only two real candidates this year, the competition between the two is already full of topics and traffic.
But it must be said that when the real results came out, it was still a surprise. An unexpected reversal was presented to everyone. Rodri, who was “limping”, won the 2024 Ballon d’Or, and Real Madrid, who did not attend at all, naturally chose to protest after knowing Vinicius’s situation.
But in fact, when a set of data comparisons of Vinicius as a striker (winger) were presented, the reason why the Ballon d’Or did not choose him became clear!
Compared to Messi’s miracle of scoring 91 goals in one year, Vinicius’s stats of only 92 goals in 6 years are really unspeakable.
Actually, there is a mistake in this set of data. Currently, Vinicius’ overall data is 279 games for Real Madrid and 92 goals. The missing data is the hat trick against Dortmund.
But what does it matter? Compared with Messi’s stats in 2012, 91 goals in 69 games, the gap is really too big!
In fact, this set of data has some relatively similarities:
From the 18/19 season to now, this is the 7th season of the 24-year-old Vinicius in Real Madrid. The best statistics are 23 goals, 21 assists and 16 yellow cards in 55 games in 22/23.
The 05/06 season was Messi’s first relatively complete season in Barcelona. In his seventh season, the 11/12 season, when he was also 24-25 years old, he had 60 games, 73 goals, 32 assists and of course 9 yellow cards.
Therefore, it is not without reason that Messi won the Ballon d’Or for four consecutive years from 2009 to 2012. But on the other hand, Vinicius has no statistics and no honors, so he can’t even be said to have “lost” the Ballon d’Or.
After all, within Real Madrid alone, Bellingham and Carvajal are not inferior to him. And if we compare forwards, we should not forget that in Serie A and Argentina, there is a player named Lautaro Martinez!
