Vinicius was not among the many nominees who paraded onto the stage on the Paris’ Chatelet Theatre the place the ceremony was held.
He was featured in a video montage proven to company on the ceremony and TV viewers.
The seven gamers from the Actual Madrid contingent who had been shortlisted for the person award, together with Kylian Mbappe, Antonio Rudiger, Fede Valverde and the retired Toni Kroos, didn’t present as much as stroll the crimson carpet earlier than the ceremony started.
The Spanish and European champions informed AFP earlier Monday they questioned the strategies behind the choice of the Ballon d’Or winner, saying that their defender Dani Carvajal, one other of the 30 gamers nominated, had additionally been unfairly ignored.
“If the award standards does not give it to Vinicius because the winner, then those self same standards ought to level to Carvajal because the winner,” Actual Madrid informed AFP.
