THE BALLON D`OR IS NOT GOOD FOR FOOTBALL.......Mourinho. Jose Mourinho has mocked individual awards in football following the announcement of the shortlist for Fifa’s Ballon d’Or and compared the campaigns that some players launch to win these sort of accolades to the American presidential race for the White House. Thibaut Courtois, Diego Costa and Eden Hazard are on the 23-man shortlist for the Fifa Ballon d’Or award while Mourinho himself is on the coach of the year list. “This kind of trophy is not good for football,” he said. “This is why I dont care about it. Sometimes it looks like we are looking for stars, we are looking for some people to be more important than others. “In some cases, it looks like we are doing a political campaign. It looks like you open the television and radios and newspapers and, I have to say, in England we have the soft ones in that campaign. In other countries, it looks like Obama is fighting again for the White House. And this is not the culture we want in this club. The mentality here is not to be worried about that. Even less being obsessed with that.” Mourinho did not mention names although he did previously manage Cristiano Ronaldo, who certainly appears to take his Ballon d’Or rivalry with Lionel Messi extremely seriously. What do you think?
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:31:06 +0000
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