Rodri did not hold back in his response to Cristiano Ronaldo's comments about his "unfair" Ballon d'Or win.
The controversy surrounding the 2024 Ballon d'Or ceremony is still making headlines three months later. At the 2024 Globe Soccer Awards, Ronaldo boldly claimed Rodri's Ballon d'Or win was "unfair" and Vinícius Júnior should have won the award for scoring in the Champions League final and later hoisting the trophy with Real Madrid.
In an interview with Diario AS, Rodri addressed Ronaldo's statement with one of his own: "Well, it’s a surprise, honestly, because he knows better than anyone how this award works and, above all, how the winner is chosen. This year, the journalists who voted decided I should win it. These same journalists probably voted for him to win it at some point, and I imagine he agreed with them then."






