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0:01Pay attention, because it turns out
0:02that the person many considered Kylian
0:04Mbappé’s greatest ally, the legend
0:06who opened the doors of Real Madrid for
0:07him, the man who always defended him
0:09above all else, has just made
0:10statements that have landed like a
0:12bombshell in the middle of the Ballon
0:13d'Or race. We are talking about
0:17Zinedine Zidane, the friend and also
0:19French manager, and therefore,
0:21Mbappé’s coach. Is it possible that
0:24the French legend himself is against
0:26Mbappé winning the Ballon d'Or? What
0:29exactly did Zidane say when he was
0:31asked about the best player in the
0:33world? And why have they in Madrid
0:36preferred to hide these words as if
0:37they were poison? Stay until the end,
0:40because what I’m going to tell you
0:42proves that not even in his own house,
0:44not even among his own people, does
0:46Kylian Mbappé have the support he
0:47thinks he has. And this, my friends,
0:50changes absolutely everything. So stay
0:53tuned, because I’m going to reveal
0:55who, for Zidane, is the player who
0:57deserves the Ballon d'Or more than
0:58anyone, and it’s going to surprise
1:00more than a few. Let’s set the stage,
1:04because to understand the magnitude of
1:05what has happened, we must first
1:07understand the current landscape. The
1:09Ballon d'Or will be awarded on October
1:1126th in London, and this year, let’s
1:13be honest, it is one of the most open
1:15races in memory. There is no clear
1:17dominator, no player who stood out
1:19above everyone else, and for that very
1:21reason, a campaign war has broken out
1:23like we haven't seen in a long time.
1:25Every club, every national team, every
1:27inner circle is pushing their candidate
1:29with everything they’ve got. And in
1:31the middle of this chaos, there is a
1:33name that has been making waves for
1:35weeks, a name that has insisted on
1:36self-proclaiming himself the best in
1:38the world when reality, the cold hard
1:40truth, says something very different.
1:42That name, of course, is Kylian Mbappé
1:44. Because Mbappé knows he’s missing
1:47his window; he knows it, and his entire
1:49circle knows it. He knows perfectly
1:51well that based on what he has done
1:53this season at Real Madrid, he
1:54doesn’t have a single chance of
1:55lifting that trophy. And why do I say
1:57this? Well, because the numbers are
1:59there, and they don't fool anyone.
2:00Mbappé scored six goals in the second
2:02half of the league season. I repeat,
2:04six goals. A player who thinks he’s
2:07the best in the world, the one going
2:09around saying the Ballon d'Or is his,
2:11with six goals in half a league season,
2:13while the top scorer had 24 or 25 goals
2:15, not even reaching 30. And this is
2:18where it gets interesting, because
2:20he’s decided, being very clever, that
2:22since the Madrid thing isn’t sticking
2:23, he’s going to try to hide behind
2:25the World Cup, clinging to the
2:26tournament's historic record like a
2:28drowning man to a straw. But Kylian is
2:31forgetting one small detail: he’s
2:32forgetting that there’s an award
2:34called the Golden Boot. He’s
2:35forgetting that there is such a thing
2:37as the tournament’s top scorer.
2:38He’s forgetting that the word "
2:39performance" exists. And the Golden
2:41Boot, just to be crystal clear, isn't
2:42held by him. The Golden Boot belongs to
2:45Harry Kane, that man who scored 61
2:46goals for Bayern Munich, who won the
2:48Bundesliga, and who feasted on half of
2:50Europe with his goals. The newspaper
2:53Marca even dedicated a front page to
2:54that man. So, when Mbappé comes out
2:57saying he’s the best, when his camp
2:59pulls strings in the offices, one
3:00wonders: based on what? Based on six
3:03goals in half a league season, based on
3:05a World Cup that wasn’t even his best
3:06? And wait, because just when we
3:10thought Mbappé’s campaign was
3:11already leaking from everywhere, Zidane
3:13appears and delivers the final blow.
3:16Stay tuned, because the good part is
3:18coming now. It turns out Zidane gets
3:20asked the million-dollar question. They
3:22ask him directly about the Ballon d'Or.
3:23They ask him who he sees as the best
3:25player in the world. And here, ladies
3:28and gentlemen, is where everyone
3:29expected the helping hand, the big
3:31favor, the gesture from a legend toward
3:32his compatriot. Because you have to
3:35understand it. Zidane is French,
3:37Mbappé is French. Mbappé is the
3:40captain of the French national team.
3:42The logical thing, the expected thing,
3:44what anyone would have done out of
3:45patriotism, professional solidarity, or
3:47whatever you want, was to name Mbappé.
3:49It would have been the easiest thing in
3:50the world. A simple sentence: "For me,
3:52the best is Kylian," and he would have
3:53given him an enormous gift. He would
3:55have given oxygen to a candidacy that
3:57is drowning. And do you know what
3:59Zidane did? Do you know who he named?
4:01Hold on to your seats. Because Zidane,
4:02the very legend of Real Madrid, said
4:04that he would vote for Messi now and a
4:06hundred times over. For Messi, not
4:08Mbappé, not his captain, not his
4:10compatriot, but Lionel Messi. And of
4:13course, in Madrid, this hasn't gone
4:15down well at all. So much so that
4:18it’s curious, because I’ve hardly
4:19seen these statements anywhere;
4:20they’ve barely been hyped up at all.
4:23And that, my friends, is the clearest
4:24proof that they've been bothered, that
4:26they've been annoyed, and that they
4:28would have preferred no one to find out
4:29, because when something suits the
4:31Madrid narrative, you'll have it on the
4:32front page of every friendly newspaper.
4:36But when something dismantles it, when
4:37something exposes the discourse, then
4:39it magically disappears, gets swept
4:41under the rug, and it's as if nothing
4:42ever happened. But it did happen. Oh,
4:45it definitely happened. Let's analyze
4:47what this really means, because it's no
4:49minor detail. Zizou says that for a
4:52footballer to be among the best in the
4:54world at 39, to shine as he did in the
4:56World Cup at that age, is not something
4:58just anyone can do, and that if we are
5:00truly talking about the best player on
5:02the planet, for him, Messi is still in
5:04that conversation. I mean, pay close
5:07attention to the message between the
5:08lines. Zizou surrenders to Messi,
5:11kneels before the extraordinary, before
5:13the greatest footballer of all time,
5:14and in the process, without needing to
5:16spell it out, he leaves Mbappé out of
5:18the equation. Because if you have the
5:22chance to defend your captain and
5:24instead you name a 39-year-old
5:25Argentine, the message is crystal clear
5:27. Mbappé, you are not the best in the
5:30world to me. And watch out, because
5:32there is an even deeper reading here.
5:33Messi isn't even in this fight anymore.
5:35Messi has already stepped away from the
5:37award. Messi is no longer interested in
5:38the Ballon d'Or. He has said it a
5:39thousand times. He is already above all
5:41of that, and that, curiously, also
5:43defines his greatness. But what strikes
5:46me most is that Zizou, having the easy
5:47way out by supporting his captain,
5:49chooses to name someone who isn't even
5:51aspiring to the trophy anymore. He
5:53prefers to pay tribute to Messi rather
5:55than mention Mbappé's name. And that,
5:57it's rumored in the inner circles, has
5:59felt like a kick in the stomach inside
6:01Valdebebas. Because it's one thing to
6:03be attacked from the outside, but it's
6:05something else entirely when your own
6:06club's legend, the man who brought you
6:08here, doesn't consider you the best.
6:10But wait, it doesn't end there, because
6:12Zidane isn't the only one who has
6:14turned his back on Mbappé. And what
6:17comes next is going to leave you even
6:19more stunned, because we are going to
6:20talk about France, we are going to talk
6:22about the French national team, which
6:24is supposed to be Mbappé's home, his
6:26refuge, his family; well, it turns out
6:28the atmosphere in there is tenser than
6:30ever. It has emerged that there is an
6:32unbearable atmosphere in the French
6:34national team's locker room, and a good
6:36part of that tension has a first and
6:38last name. We have statements from
6:40Michael Olise, Mbappé's teammate on
6:42the national team, who has openly said
6:44that for him, Harry Kane is the best
6:45player in the world. His own teammate,
6:48he doesn't say Mbappé, he says Kane.
6:52We also have Ousmane Dembélé, the
6:54current Ballon d'Or winner, another
6:55Frenchman who doesn't buy into Kylian's
6:57narrative either; I mean, pay attention
6:59to this, two French national team
7:01teammates, two who, when asked who is
7:03the best in the world, do not mention
7:05their captain. And this is no
7:07coincidence, this is something that
7:09goes way back, because in France they
7:11know Mbappé better than anyone. The
7:13French have experienced firsthand what
7:15it is like to have Kylian Mbappé
7:17season after season. They suffered
7:19through it at Paris Saint-Germain for
7:20years, when he thought he was the
7:22master and lord of the club, when he
7:23made and unmade signings, when he had
7:25more power than the coach himself, and
7:26that is why, when he now tries to sell
7:28himself as the best in the world, it
7:29doesn't fly in France. Jérémy Rothen
7:32doesn't buy it, Lizarazu doesn't buy it
7:34, the national team's own inner circle
7:35doesn't buy it, and serious journalists
7:37who aren't willing to lower their
7:39credibility to campaign for anyone
7:40don't buy it. They already know the
7:42character, they already know where his
7:44weaknesses lie. And this is where we
7:46have to remember the whole history of
7:48PSG, because it explains a lot of what
7:49is happening now. In Paris. They
7:52watched as Mbappé left for Madrid in
7:54exchange for a free transfer with a
7:56bonus of over 100 million and an
7:57exorbitant salary. They watched how the
8:00Madrid locker room was cracking
8:02everywhere, how the team wasn't winning
8:04anything important, while Paris
8:06Saint-Germain, without him, became the
8:08strongest team in its history. And not
8:10just for one season, but repeating it a
8:12second. Coincidences of life, right?
8:14Well, no, I don't think so. When Luis
8:16Enrique arrived at PSG and told Kylian,
8:18"You're cutting this show out for me,"
8:20many labeled him a demon, a madman. And
8:22look now. Luis Enrique predicted what
8:24was going to happen. He said, "When he
8:26leaves, I'm going to be unstoppable."
8:28And no sooner said than done. And what
8:30does this have to do with the Ballon
8:31d'Or? A lot, because the French haven't
8:33forgotten anything, and that is why
8:35none of them are willing to lift a
8:36finger for Mbappé in this fight. But
8:39watch out, because now a character
8:40enters the scene who changes everything
8:42even more, because don't think that
8:43only the French have turned their backs
8:45on him. Let's move on to another legend
8:47, in this case a Real Madrid legend
8:49himself, someone who played with
8:50Mbappé and shared a locker room with
8:52him. We are talking about Toni Kroos,
8:55and this is where it gets interesting
8:56because back in the day, when Toni
8:57Kroos was asked who deserved the Ballon
8:59d'Or, he was very patriotic, very
9:00German, and backed his own people. But
9:03now, when asked again, he has changed
9:05his tune. It is said that Kroos hinted
9:08that his favorite is no longer who it
9:10once was, and that clearly, Mbappé's
9:11name is not the first one that comes to
9:13mind when he thinks of the best of the
9:14year. And this is tremendously funny
9:18because these are the same people who,
9:20when Rodri was about to sign for Real
9:21Madrid, praised him to the heavens and
9:23pointed to him as the clear Ballon d'Or
9:25winner. But of course, as soon as Rodri
9:28went to play near Barça, as soon as he
9:30stopped fitting the narrative,
9:31magically he wasn't that good anymore.
9:34That's how this works. They change
9:35their opinions as it suits them,
9:37depending on which way the wind blows.
9:39And that is why the credibility of many
9:41of these arguments is rock bottom. And
9:44now comes the part that hurts me most
9:46as a fan, as a lover of good football,
9:48because something is happening in Spain
9:51that is truly shocking. In Spain, where
9:54logic would dictate supporting the
9:56Spanish candidate, it turns out that a
9:58significant group prefers to campaign
10:00for a Frenchman. Yes, you heard that
10:02right, for a Frenchman. And why? Well,
10:04because that Frenchman plays for Real
10:06Madrid. No flag, no colors, no national
10:08team, nothing. Only Madrid exists,
10:10Madrid and nothing but Madrid. And if
10:13Madrid's candidate is Mbappé, then
10:14they campaign for Mbappé, even if he
10:16hasn't won absolutely anything. This is
10:19where the famous José Félix Díaz and
10:21his exclusive interview for the
10:22newspaper AS come into play. Because
10:26after all the controversy surrounding
10:28Mbappé, after being exposed globally,
10:30they give him a custom-made interview,
10:32one of those meant to polish his image
10:34and try to clear his name. And forgive
10:37me for saying so, but it has backfired
10:39on them, because rather than retracting
10:41or clearing anything up, Mbappé has
10:43been exposed even further. And we must
10:45remember where all this comes from.
10:47Florentino, after Vinicius didn't win
10:49the Ballon d'Or, flew into a rage and
10:51dropped that ultimatum: either you give
10:52me journalists who are on my side, or
10:54I'm not coming back here. And France
10:57Football, of course, considers that
10:58having the media impact of Real Madrid
11:00in exchange for handing it to some
11:01José Félix Díaz is more than
11:02profitable, it’s a business. But
11:05it’s one thing what the aligned
11:06journalists vote for, what Roncero
11:08votes for, what the usual suspects vote
11:10for, and something very different is
11:12what the true legends of football think
11:14. And that is where Zidane, with a
11:15single sentence, has dismantled the
11:17whole charade. Stay tuned, because this
11:19keeps getting better. Let's look now at
11:22the other side of the coin, because
11:24while Mbappé's campaign is falling to
11:25pieces, there is another candidate who
11:27has an entire club pushing
11:28intelligently behind him. We are
11:30talking about Lamine Yamal. Barça has
11:32decided that its candidate is Lamine
11:34and has even pushed Rodri out of the
11:36equation. And why? Well, for something
11:39very simple that Rodri himself said,
11:40which I find brutally honest. Rodri
11:43acknowledged that he thinks it’s
11:45completely legitimate for the club to
11:46push Lamine, because if Barça splits
11:48support between two candidates, all you
11:49achieve is dividing the votes. Lamine
11:52is the one with the marketing, Lamine
11:54is the one who sells the jerseys,
11:55Lamine is the future. And placing him
11:57already in the fight for the best in
11:58the world is in the club's interest.
12:00And here, to be fair—since this is a
12:02fair channel—I am going to tell you
12:04something you might not expect from me.
12:06To me, a club or an environment
12:08campaigning for its player seems
12:09perfect; I think it is totally
12:11legitimate. What I don't like, and I
12:14say it loud and clear, is when the
12:16players themselves proclaim themselves
12:17the best. That really shocks me; it’s
12:20not for me. And that’s why, even
12:23though I’m not entirely convinced by
12:25Lamine’s mannerisms either, there is
12:26an abysmal difference between his
12:28situation and Mbappé's; because one
12:29has won the League, won the Supercup,
12:31has shown spectacular touches, has left
12:32scandalous stats at 18 years old, and
12:34the other won the World Cup, yes, okay,
12:36but a World Cup that was far from his
12:37best, and at the club level, he
12:39hasn’t won anything at all. And on
12:42top of that, Lamine has his entire
12:44footballing environment behind him. We
12:46have Raphinha saying that his Ballon
12:48d'Or is for Lamine. We have Hansi Flick
12:51, who may like the kid's ways more or
12:52less, but supports him entirely. We
12:55have all his teammates at Barça
12:57closing ranks. And now, compare who
13:00publicly supports Mbappé. I am still
13:02waiting to see Vinicius come out to
13:04defend him. I am still waiting to see
13:06Jude Bellingham say that Mbappé is the
13:08best. Neither at his club nor on his
13:09national team do they back him. Doesn't
13:11it seem to you that that says
13:12absolutely everything? And to top it
13:14off, let's not forget that there are
13:15other serious names on the table, names
13:17that have much more merit than Mbappé
13:19this year. We have Kvara Kvaratskhelia,
13:21who had a spectacular season, who was
13:23chosen as the best player in the
13:24Champions League, and who was crowned
13:26world champion. Just look: world
13:28champion and the best in the Champions
13:30League. The only drawback is that he is
13:32from Georgia, and Georgia didn't do
13:34anything in the World Cup, which has
13:36cost him points for the award, but in
13:37terms of performance, he surpasses
13:39Mbappé without breaking a sweat. In
13:42fact, Toni Kroos himself has
13:43highlighted Kvaratskhelia as his
13:45favorite for the Ballon d'Or, and we
13:46have Harry Kane, and we have Dembélé
13:48defending a title, and we have Rodri,
13:50who led Spain in the World Cup with his
13:51usual reliability. I mean, the question
13:54answers itself with all these names on
13:57the table, with all these players who
13:59have actually won things, who have been
14:01decisive, and who have plenty of
14:03arguments—really, does anyone believe
14:05that Mbappé deserves the Ballon d'Or?
14:08Seriously. And this is where we return
14:10to the beginning, because there is one
14:12person who has already answered that
14:14question without needing to shout it,
14:15and that person is Zidane. Let's pause
14:18on this because it is the heart of the
14:20whole matter. Why, being able to stay
14:22silent or support Mbappé, does Zidane
14:24decide to name Messi? There are two
14:26possible readings here, and both are
14:27devastating for Kylian. The first
14:30reading is that Zidane simply doesn't
14:32want to look ridiculous because he is
14:33Zidane; he is a legend, he is one of
14:35the classiest players to ever step onto
14:36a soccer pitch in history, and his word
14:38carries weight. If Zidane came out to
14:41say that a player who hasn't won a
14:43single major trophy at the club level,
14:45who isn't even the Golden Boot winner,
14:47is the best in the world, he would be
14:49tarnishing his own prestige. He would
14:51be saying something outrageous that
14:52clashes on every level. Zidane is too
14:54intelligent and has too much
14:56footballing knowledge to make such a
14:58fool of himself. And the second reading
15:01, the juicier one, is that Zidane
15:03simply thinks what he thinks, period;
15:04that for him, with total honesty, Messi
15:06remains superior to Mbappé, even at 39
15:08years old. And that, my friends, is
15:12incredibly humiliating for Kylian,
15:13because it means the legend of your
15:15club is telling you to your face and in
15:17front of the whole world that a man
15:18nearly 40 years old plays better than
15:20you. No matter how you look at it. The
15:23result is the same. Zidane doesn't see
15:25Mbappé as the best in the world, and
15:27therefore, in practice, Zidane doesn't
15:29want Mbappé to win the Ballon d'Or.
15:32And do you want to know what the
15:33reaction inside the Madrid locker room
15:35has been to these words? Wait, because
15:37this still has one more chapter.
15:39Because this whole story comes at a
15:41very delicate moment for Kylian Mbappé
15:43in terms of his image. I don't need to
15:46remind you what happened with the
15:47tributes and the jerseys, when all his
15:49teammates made a gesture and he, in his
15:51own way, decided not to. He decided to
15:54go his own way, to stay above it, as
15:55always. And people don't forget that.
15:58People have him very well figured out,
15:59because Mbappé has built an image of
16:01always doing his own thing, of always
16:03being above the group. And when you are
16:05like that, when you have that label,
16:07anything you do is interpreted through
16:08that lens. And that is why, when he
16:11runs to give an exclusive interview to
16:13the newspaper AS to make excuses, far
16:15from fixing it, he makes it worse.
16:17Because not taking a side is also
16:18taking a side, because being caught in
16:20the middle, neither with you nor
16:21without you, is the worst position to
16:23be in. It's like when, in the interview
16:25he gave in France, he tried to imply
16:27that he had always wanted to stay at
16:28PSG, that he always had a loving
16:30relationship with the club, when we all
16:32know how that ended. Why does he do it?
16:34Well, because he wants to win the
16:35affection of the French, those French
16:37people who have him so labeled. But it
16:39doesn't work anymore; nobody buys it.
16:41And now let's put all the pieces of the
16:43puzzle together, because when you see
16:44it as a whole, the image is devastating
16:46. The French players on his national
16:48team don't support him. Aurélien
16:49Tchouaméni. Dembélé doesn't buy his
16:52narrative. His Madrid teammates,
16:53neither Vinicius nor Bellingham, come
16:55out to defend him. Toni Kroos has
16:56changed his mind and doesn't even
16:58mention him. Serious journalists in
17:00France refuse to campaign for him, and
17:02the icing on the cake, the final blow,
17:04is Zidane. Zidane, the legend, the man
17:07who opened the door to Madrid for him,
17:09saying he would vote for Messi 100
17:11times over anyone else. Honestly, with
17:14this whole landscape, with the entire
17:15football world turning its back on him,
17:17does anyone think Mbappé has any real
17:18chance? The only people pushing for it
17:21are those with a direct interest:
17:22Florentino, who threatened not to
17:24return, the typical José Félix Díaz,
17:26Roncero, and company. But when you
17:28strip away all that noise, when you
17:30strip away all that media setup, the
17:32reality is that Kylian Mbappé’s
17:33campaign doesn't hold up anywhere. It
17:36doesn't hold up when even his own
17:38national team coach doesn't consider
17:39him the best. It doesn't hold up when
17:41not even the legend of his club backs
17:43him. And here comes the final
17:44reflection, the one that truly matters.
17:46The beautiful thing about football is
17:48that there's no accounting for taste.
17:50Everyone can have their favorite,
17:52everyone can defend their player, and
17:54that is wonderful. That is what makes
17:56this sport great. I can have my opinion
17:58as a faithful lover and fan of good
18:00football, and you can have yours, and
18:02both are equally respectable. But
18:03preferences are one thing, and reality
18:05is something very different. It’s
18:06about the trophy cabinet, it's an award
18:08for performance, and reality says there
18:10are players this year with far more
18:11merit than Mbappé. And when even
18:14French legends themselves, even Zidane,
18:16look the other way rather than pinning
18:18the medal on Kylian, well perhaps, just
18:20perhaps, it's time for Mbappé to
18:22humble himself a bit and understand
18:24that the best player in the world isn't
18:26decreed from an office or an exclusive
18:28interview; it's earned on the pitch. So
18:32the answer to the question we opened
18:34this video with—whether Zidane is
18:35against Mbappé winning the Ballon d'Or
18:37—is, for me, crystal clear. Zidane
18:39didn't have to say, "I don't want
18:41Mbappé to win it," he didn't need to.
18:44By naming Messi instead of his captain,
18:46with that gesture so simple yet so
18:47brutal, he has made his stance clearer
18:49than water. And deep down, Zidane has
18:51done what many in Spain don't dare to
18:53do. Tell the truth, even if it hurts,
18:55even if it’s uncomfortable, even if
18:57you have to sweep his words under the
18:59rug afterward so the narrative doesn't
19:00collapse. And at this point, after
19:03everything we have broken down, I
19:05believe there is no doubt left on the
19:07table. Kylian Mbappé can keep
19:09proclaiming himself the best in the
19:11world as many times as he wants. He can
19:13keep giving exclusive interviews to the
19:15newspaper AS. He can keep clutching at
19:18the World Cup like a drowning man, but
19:20reality, that stubborn reality that
19:21pays no mind to bias or interests, says
19:23something very different. Because when
19:27you market yourself as the best player
19:28on the planet, but it turns out you
19:30aren't the Golden Boot winner, you
19:32haven't won anything important with
19:33your club, you've scored six goals in
19:35half a league season, and on top of
19:36that, neither your own coach, your
19:38national teammates, nor the legends of
19:39your own club back you, well, sorry to
19:41say it, Kylian, but that campaign is
19:43leaking from every side. And the
19:45definitive blow, the final thrust, was
19:47delivered to us by Zidane. Zidane, who
19:49had the easy way out of supporting his
19:51compatriot, preferred to look toward
19:53Rosario and name Messi 100 times before
19:55letting the name Mbappé slip. And that
19:57, my friends, is not an unimportant
19:59detail; that is a message, a very clear
20:01message sent by one of the greatest
20:02legends this sport has ever produced, a
20:04man who knows more about football than
20:06all the José Félix Díazes in the
20:08world combined. Regarding Mbappé
20:11winning it, it was enough for him to
20:13name someone else, and sometimes a
20:15silence or a gesture says much more
20:17than 1,000 bought headlines. Because in
20:21the end, and this is what I want you to
20:23take away from today's video, the
20:25Ballon d'Or shouldn't be an award won
20:27in offices, nor based on threats,
20:29custom-made interviews, or hiding
20:30inconvenient statements under the rug.
20:34The Ballon d'Or should be won on the
20:36pitch with goals, titles, performance,
20:38and real football. And this year, like
20:40it or not, there are players with many
20:43more merits than Kylian Mbappé
20:44fighting for that trophy. There's Kane,
20:47there's Kvaratskhelia, there's
20:49Dembélé, there's Rodri, and there's
20:50Lamine, pushed by an entire club that
20:52actually knows how to do things
20:53intelligently. So I have it very clear,
20:56and I think after everything I've told
20:59you, you do too. Between what a legend
21:00like Zidane thinks and what a
21:01narrative-driven journalist thinks,
21:03I’ll take Zidane 1,000 times over.
21:04But hey, this is football, and the
21:06beauty of it is precisely that everyone
21:07has their own opinion. That's why now
21:09it's your turn to take a stand. Do you
21:11think Zidane snubbed Mbappé on purpose
21:13, or did he simply say what he thinks
21:15from the heart? And who would you give
21:17the Ballon d'Or to? I'll read your
21:19thoughts in the comment section. I want
21:20a debate to break out down there. Smash
21:22that like button, as it helps the
21:24channel out a lot. Share this video
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21:27to hear these truths, and subscribe if
21:29you aren't part of this community yet.
21:31And so we will become ever greater
21:33lovers and fans of the beautiful game.

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