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0:00Pay attention, because what happened at
0:02this year's Ballon d'Or gala, where
0:04Harry Kane emerged as the winner, is
0:06going to be talked about for weeks,
0:08months, perhaps for the rest of the
0:09season. Kylian Mbappé, the man who had
0:13spent entire months putting together
0:14the most brazen campaign in memory to
0:16win the Ballon d'Or, was left looking
0:18like a fool when he saw the award
0:19didn't go to him. And he didn't just
0:23miss out on the award, did he? In front
0:26of the whole world, right in the heart
0:27of London, with the cameras pointed
0:29directly at his face the exact moment
0:30he realized he had made the biggest
0:32fool of himself in his career. Did
0:34France Football really make him travel
0:36all the way there, leading him to
0:37believe he was winning? Did Real Madrid
0:39really break a two-year boycott, two
0:41years of open war, just to swallow this
0:43humiliation live, even bigger than the
0:46one with Vinicius? And how did Mbappé
0:48react and what words did he have for
0:50the new Ballon d'Or winner, Harry Kane?
0:52Stay until the end, because I'm going
0:54to tell you absolutely everything the
0:55French press doesn't want you to know.
0:58How was this humiliation orchestrated
1:00step by step? Who put it in his head
1:01that the award was his? And what really
1:03happened that night when the lights
1:05went out and the cameras stopped
1:06rolling. Because this, believe me, is
1:09much bigger than what the few headlines
1:11you've seen out there have told you.
1:13Let's start from the beginning, because
1:15to understand the blow Mbappé took,
1:16you have to understand where he was
1:18coming from. And he was coming in
1:20overconfident, he had been walking on
1:22air for months. Because let's not kid
1:25ourselves, Mbappé had a tremendous
1:26season this year. No one can take that
1:28away from him. Goals galore with Madrid
1:30, a key player for France, scandalous
1:32numbers. But the guy, instead of
1:34letting his football do the talking,
1:35decided to launch a self-promotion
1:37campaign like no one had ever seen
1:38before. He spent the entire year,
1:41literally the whole year, selling
1:43himself as the best on the planet. And
1:46here comes the first detail that many
1:47people don't know. Mbappé didn't hold
1:50back at all when it came to asking for
1:51the award. He asked for it in
1:53interviews, he asked for it in
1:54statements, he dropped it in every
1:55press conference he could. That refrain
1:57about him being the top scorer in World
1:59Cup history, that he had surpassed all
2:01the legends, that what he had done in
2:03the most important tournament on the
2:04planet, no one else had done. over and
2:07over like a broken record. You listened
2:09to him and it seemed like he already
2:11had the Ballon d'Or packed in his
2:12suitcase, just waiting to go pick it up
2:13. And watch out, because the move went
2:15even further. There were efforts to
2:19ensure the French press, which has
2:21massive weight in this vote because
2:22France Football is French, pulled in
2:24his favor. To vote for him, to push for
2:27him, to turn his candidacy into a
2:29matter of almost national pride. All of
2:32France behind Mbappé, the guy who had
2:34to bring a Ballon d'Or back to France
2:35that they hadn't won since their
2:36compatriot Dembélé. The whole
2:39apparatus set up, all the gears in his
2:42favor, and yet, wait, because this is
2:45just the warm-up. Because the wildest
2:47part of this whole campaign wasn't the
2:49interviews; the wildest part, what
2:51really made half the world think the
2:52award was already decided, happened in
2:54the least expected place, it happened
2:55right in the middle of El Clásico. Yes
2:58, you heard that right: in Barça vs.
3:00Madrid, in the most-watched game of the
3:01year in front of hundreds of millions
3:03of people. Do you want to know what
3:05Mbappé did in the Clásico that turned
3:07the whole internet upside down? Hold on
3:10, I'll tell you right now because it's
3:12wild. It turns out that in that
3:13Clásico, Madrid took the victory on
3:15Barça's home turf. A great match with
3:17Mourinho on the Madrid bench pulling
3:19the strings and Mbappé putting on one
3:21of his performances. The Frenchman left
3:24the pitch like a rooster, strutting,
3:25feeling like the king of the world. And
3:27that's where it kicks off. The
3:29television cameras caught a moment that
3:31went viral in a matter of minutes. A
3:35friend of his, a pretty well-known
3:36comedian, approached him on the pitch
3:38and asked him one of those loaded
3:39questions, something like, "Do you have
3:41it tomorrow?" Referring, of course, to
3:44the Ballon d'Or being awarded the very
3:46next day. And what did Mbappé do? Well
3:49, instead of hiding it, instead of
3:51acting humble, the guy smiled. He
3:53smiled from ear to ear and nodded his
3:56head as if to say, "Yes, it's mine
3:58tomorrow." As if he already had it
4:00signed and sealed. And of course, that
4:02video exploded. It exploded everywhere.
4:04People started saying, "He knows, he
4:06definitely knows.""Mbappé already
4:08knows he's winning the Ballon d'Or.""
4:09Otherwise, he wouldn't be smiling like
4:11that." And this is where things start
4:13to smell strange, very strange, because
4:15this had already happened before. Does
4:17the year 2024 ring a bell? That year,
4:20Real Madrid also took it for granted
4:21that one of their own would win. The
4:23result was leaked ahead of time, and in
4:25the end, they were completely
4:26blindsided. So, when people saw Mbappé
4:30smiling and nodding his head, all the
4:31alarms went off. The same thing all
4:34over again. Once again, Madrid and the
4:36French knew the result before anyone
4:38else. Well, hold on tight because the
4:40answer to that will leave you
4:42speechless. But before we get there, we
4:44have to talk about something that
4:46changes everything, and that is the
4:47decision Real Madrid made three days
4:49before the gala. A historic decision, a
4:52decision no one expected, because you
4:54have to understand the context. Real
4:57Madrid hadn't shown up to the Ballon
4:59d'Or gala for 2 years, two whole years.
5:02Two years of a total boycott, a cold
5:05war with France Football. And why was
5:07Madrid so angry? Wait, this is key to
5:10understanding everything that follows.
5:12Let’s go back to 2024. That year, the
5:15clear favorite to win the Ballon d'Or
5:17was Vinicius. The Brazilian was coming
5:20off a spectacular season, having been
5:22decisive in winning the Champions
5:24League, and the Club Blanco was
5:26convinced—absolutely convinced—that
5:28the award was theirs, until it leaked
5:31at the last minute that the winner
5:33wasn't going to be Vinicius, but Rodri,
5:35the Spaniard from Manchester City, and
5:37Madrid was absolutely livid. They
5:41considered it a fraud, an armed robbery
5:43, and Florentino Pérez himself, the
5:45president, made a radical decision. To
5:48cancel the entire club's attendance in
5:50one stroke; nobody went. They left the
5:53gala empty of Madridistas, a snub for
5:55the history books, and the following
5:57year, more of the same. Madrid once
6:00again completely ignored the gala; they
6:02didn't even bother to show up. The
6:04relationship between the biggest club
6:06in the world and the most important
6:07award in soccer was broken, shattered.
6:10It seemed like they would never speak
6:11again. And then this year arrives and,
6:14suddenly—bam—a plot twist: Real
6:16Madrid announces they are returning,
6:18lifting the veto, and attending the
6:20London gala with a high-profile
6:22delegation. And this is where you have
6:25to ask yourself the million-dollar
6:27question. Why? Why does a club that had
6:30been furious for two years, having
6:32turned the boycott into a matter of
6:33dignity, suddenly decide to return just
6:35this year? Well, the answer is as
6:37simple as it is devastating. Because
6:40they were convinced that Mbappé was
6:41winning. It’s that clear. In Madrid's
6:44inner circle, it was taken for granted
6:45that if Florentino authorized the
6:47return, it was because someone had
6:48guaranteed him his star would win the
6:50prize. Nobody, absolutely nobody, ends
6:53a two-year war just to go and applaud
6:55someone else winning. Madrid was
6:57returning to London to celebrate, to
6:59crown Mbappé, to rub it in everyone's
7:01face. That was the idea, that was the
7:03plan. And watch out, because there were
7:06voices, voices very close to Madridismo
7:08that warned, there were pro-Madrid
7:10journalists who dropped a phrase that
7:11now, given what happened, is worth
7:13framing. They literally said to be
7:17careful, that this could end like in
7:192024, to watch out, not to trust it,
7:21that maybe they are making you go to
7:23humiliate you again. And nobody
7:26listened to them. Nobody. In Madrid,
7:29they were euphoric, convinced, living
7:30in a fantasy world preparing the party.
7:32And do you know how the party ended?
7:34Well, stay with me because it ended in
7:36a total disaster. But first, I have to
7:38tell you something else that happened
7:40that same day and put the gala in the
7:41spotlight before it even began.
7:44Something so huge, so massive, that by
7:46itself it is already a scandal,
7:48prepared because this was like lighting
7:50the fuse. It turns out that a few hours
7:53before the ceremony, when there was
7:55still a good while to go before knowing
7:57the winner, the official Ballon d'Or
7:59website, the official one, the real one
8:00, messed up big time. It published by
8:04mistake, not one, not two, but three
8:06different articles. And in each one of
8:09those articles, a different winner was
8:11announced. In one, Kane won, in another
8:14Mbappé won, and in another, Lamine won
8:17, the kid from Barça. Three different
8:19winners published at the same time on
8:21the official website, a monumental
8:23blunder. And here people went crazy, as
8:26you can imagine, because each article
8:28came with its text prepared, with its
8:30praise, with its statistics. The one
8:32about Mbappé spoke of his exemplary
8:34consistency, his record-breaking World
8:36Cup, his goals with Madrid. The one
8:38about Lamine crowned him as the new
8:40king of soccer and the youngest winner
8:42in history. Everything ready,
8:44everything written, waiting for one of
8:46the three to become reality. And due to
8:49a mistake by someone who clicked where
8:50they shouldn't have, the three came to
8:52light at the same time and, of course,
8:53the theory immediately popped up. Let's
8:55see if they have all three prepared,
8:57maybe the podium is these three, and
8:58indeed they were completely right. But
9:01the important thing here is not that.
9:03The important thing is what it means:
9:05that not even the organization could
9:07keep a secret, that everything was held
9:09together by a thread, and that this
9:10gala was a circus before it even began.
9:13And in that circus, the main clown,
9:15without knowing it yet, was going to be
9:17Mbappé. Night falls in London, the
9:20theater packed to the brim, the red
9:23carpet, the glamour, the stars parading
9:25by, and there is the Real Madrid
9:28delegation led by Mbappé, entering
9:30like someone heading to a coronation.
9:33Head held high, suit impeccable, the
9:35smile of someone who already thinks
9:37they’ve won. Because in his mind, in
9:40Mbappé’s mind and the minds of his
9:41entire camp, this was a done deal. It
9:43was just a formality. He came to
9:45collect what he believed was rightfully
9:47his. And do you want to know the
9:49atmosphere among the Madridistas that
9:50night? It was one of early partying, of
9:54celebrating before the time. And that,
9:57my friends, you pay for in football;
9:58you always pay for it. The ceremony, by
10:00the way, was a fairly chaotic spectacle
10:02. It dragged on much longer than
10:04expected, with musical performances and
10:06interruptions everywhere. They even had
10:09to take breaks so people could drink
10:10water. Look at the level of it. Two
10:12hydration stops in the middle of the
10:14gala, absolutely crazy. And meanwhile,
10:18the tension kept rising because as the
10:20minutes passed, the rankings were
10:22revealed from 30th place upwards,
10:24little by little, name by name, drawing
10:26out the agony. And this is where the
10:30real drama begins, because the moment
10:31of truth arrives, the top three, the
10:33three finalists, the same three that
10:35had appeared by mistake on the website:
10:37Kane, Mbappé, and Lamine. And the
10:41theater goes silent, a silence you
10:43could cut with a knife. First, the
10:46third-place finisher drops, and it’s
10:48Lamine Yamal, the 18-year-old kid from
10:50Barça, the one who started the season
10:52as the bookies 'heavy favorite, the one
10:54everyone pegged as the winner a few
10:56months ago, he’s left out of the top
10:58duo. Third place, a blow for him too;
11:03we’ll talk another day about why his
11:05candidacy fell off, but tonight isn't
11:07about Lamine, tonight is about someone
11:09else, because with Lamine in third,
11:11only two names remained on the table:
11:13Kane and Mbappé, face to face. The
11:16silent Englishman against the Frenchman
11:18who had spent a year shouting to the
11:20rooftops that the award was his. And
11:22here, pause for a second. Imagine the
11:24scene. Mbappé sitting with all his
11:26people around him, with all of Madrid
11:28watching, with all of France glued to
11:29the television. Only he and Kane were
11:32left. 50%. And in his head, that 50%was
11:37100%. Because he was convinced, totally
11:41convinced; even Madrid had come back
11:43for him, the web had named him the
11:45winner, and he’d even nodded yes
11:46during El Clásico. Everything fit,
11:50everything pointed to him. But soccer,
11:52my friends, is a real bastard. And what
11:55happened next was so brutal, so
11:56humiliating, that people are still
11:58talking about it today. Do you want to
12:01know exactly what Mbappé’s face
12:02looked like when he heard the
12:03winner’s name? Hold on for 3 seconds,
12:06we're reaching the key moment, but
12:08first I need you to understand who the
12:10guy is that stole his dream. Harry Kane
12:13, the Englishman, the Bayern Munich
12:15striker. And here is the beauty, or the
12:18cruelty, depending on how you look at
12:19it. Kane is the complete opposite of
12:22Mbappé. Kane didn't set up any
12:24campaign. Kane didn't ask for the award
12:26. Kane didn't smile in any Clásico
12:28nodding his head. Kane simply dedicated
12:31himself to scoring goals, to scoring
12:33goals like an animal. Match after match
12:34, without making a sound. A guy who,
12:38get this fact, in his entire career had
12:40never even cracked the top ten in the
12:42Ballon d'Or, never. An eternal underdog
12:45, the uncrowned killer, the goalscorer
12:47no one took seriously for this award.
12:50And suddenly, at 33 years old, when no
12:52one expected it anymore, the quiet
12:53Englishman goes and wins the Ballon
12:55d'Or. The first of his life, the first
12:58for an Englishman in 25 years. While
13:01the flashy Frenchman, the one who had
13:03been selling himself for months, was
13:04left with nothing. It even has a poetic
13:07side to it, right? The one who talked
13:08the least went the furthest, and the
13:10one who sold himself the most, the one
13:11who made the most noise, suffered the
13:12biggest disappointment of his career.
13:14And now, yes, now we reach the moment.
13:17The Ballon d'Or winner is announced and
13:20the name called out isn't Mbappé, the
13:22name called out is Harry Kane. And the
13:26cameras, which are geniuses and know
13:28exactly where to point, go straight to
13:29Mbappé's face. And there it is, there
13:34is the moment, the Frenchman’s face
13:36—a broken poker face, a mix of
13:38disbelief, rage, shame, and "I can't
13:40believe it." He tried to hide it, he
13:45tried to applaud, he tried to put on a
13:46brave face, but he couldn't. You could
13:50tell, you could tell from miles away
13:52that inside he was dying. A look of
13:54monumental foolishness, the look of
13:56someone who came to a party thinking it
13:57was in his honor, only to find out it
13:59was for someone else. Just imagine,
14:01you've spent an entire year saying
14:03you're the best. You've managed to get
14:06your club to break a 2-year boycott
14:07just to come and watch you win. You
14:09even smiled during El Clásico as if to
14:10say, "It's already mine." And now
14:13you're sitting in a London theater with
14:15all your teammates by your side, with
14:17your president, with your country's
14:18press, and you hear someone else's name
14:20, an Englishman's, Kane's. Do you know
14:23how embarrassing that is? Do you know
14:25what it's like to swallow that live in
14:26front of hundreds of millions of people
14:28? Well, that is exactly what Mbappé
14:30experienced, and that's why he had that
14:33look, a look that is already internet
14:34history. But wait, because the heaviest
14:37part isn't the face, the heaviest part
14:39is what came after, what started being
14:41told when the cameras went off. And
14:43this is where the word that has set
14:45everything on fire comes in: betrayal.
14:47Do you want to know why half the world
14:49is saying Mbappé has been betrayed?
14:51Listen closely to this, because it's
14:52the key to the whole video. There are
14:55sources, and not just any sources,
14:57claiming that Mbappé was made to go to
14:59London with a more or less veiled
15:01promise that the award was his; that
15:03from within the organization, from that
15:06dark world surrounding the Ballon d'Or,
15:08the Frenchman and Madrid were led to
15:10believe it was a done deal; that's why
15:12Madrid returned, that's why they put
15:14together such a delegation, that's why
15:16Mbappé was so calm, so confident, so
15:18convinced: because someone, at some
15:20point, made him believe he had already
15:22won. And then at the last moment, bam,
15:26reality hits. The prize goes to Kane,
15:30and Mbappé is left out in the cold.
15:33Can you imagine the move? Making you
15:35come, making you build up the
15:36expectation, making your whole club end
15:38two years of war, only to leave you
15:39looking ridiculous in front of everyone
15:41. If that is true, if even half of that
15:44is true, it is one of the greatest
15:46humiliations a footballer has suffered
15:48in a long time. And the worst part is
15:50that it's not the first time this story
15:52has been told. Because exactly the same
15:55thing was said in 2024 with Vinicius,
15:56that they made him believe he was
15:58winning, that he planned the trip, and
16:00in the end, it blew up in his face—
16:01what a coincidence, the same story
16:03twice with the same club. Some say that
16:06France Football and Real Madrid have a
16:08long-standing war and that these awards
16:10have become a battlefield where the one
16:12who pays the price is always the player
16:14, and this time the one paying it was
16:16Mbappé. And what a heavy price to pay.
16:19But let's be fair, because there are
16:21two sides to this, and I’m going to
16:23tell you both. The first is the
16:25betrayal, the conspiracy, the idea that
16:28Mbappé was deceived, and the second,
16:30which others claim, is even tougher for
16:32the Frenchman's ego. Because some say
16:35that nobody betrayed Mbappé, that he
16:38simply believed it all by himself, that
16:40he built his own movie, his own
16:42campaign, his own fantasy; and that
16:44when reality slapped him in the face,
16:46he looked for others to blame. That
16:49nobody promised him anything, that it
16:50was all in his head and in the head of
16:52a Madrid that took for granted
16:53something that wasn't guaranteed. And
16:55which of the two versions is the truth?
16:58Well, my friend, that is the big
16:59question, and I’ll tell you now that
17:01the answer probably lies somewhere in
17:03the middle, but stay with me because
17:05the best part is yet to come. It
17:07remains to be understood why this is so
17:09serious for Mbappé from now on.
17:10Because this defeat is not just any
17:12defeat. This is not losing a single
17:15match. This goes much deeper. Mbappé
17:18has built his entire image around the
17:20idea that he is the best in the world,
17:22the heir, the chosen one. And the
17:25Ballon d'Or was the piece he was
17:26missing, the crown, the official
17:27confirmation. And they have denied it
17:30to him again in front of everyone. And
17:32on top of that, it was done by a guy
17:34like Kane, whom nobody considered
17:36better than him. Do you know what that
17:38does to a player's mindset? What it's
17:41like to have bet everything on one card
17:43, and for that card to fail at the
17:44worst possible moment. Mbappé is going
17:48to have to live with this, with the
17:49video of him smiling at the Clásico,
17:51with his foolish expression in London,
17:52with Madrid's failed return. All of it
17:56together, all against him, turned into
17:58a giant meme that is going to haunt him
17:59for months. And here is another detail
18:03that almost no one is mentioning and
18:04that I find key: the collateral damage.
18:07Because Mbappé didn't sink alone; he
18:09took Real Madrid down with him. The
18:12club broke a two-year boycott for him,
18:14for no one else, just him. And what
18:17does Madrid look like now? Well, they
18:19look like they’ve made fools of
18:21themselves, swallowed their pride, and
18:23returned with their heads down just to
18:25end up applauding a rival's win.
18:28Florentino authorized that return
18:30convinced of victory, and victory did
18:32not come. So now Madrid has a double
18:34problem: the humiliation of their star
18:36and the institutional humiliation of
18:38having returned for nothing. And do you
18:40know what the Madrid fanbase is already
18:42asking? They are asking if it wouldn't
18:45have been better to continue the
18:46boycott, if it wouldn't have been more
18:48dignified to stay home like the
18:49previous two years instead of going to
18:51London to deal with this mess; because
18:53now they look foolish, like those who
18:54came back with their tails between
18:56their legs and, on top of that, left
18:58empty-handed. And in a club as proud as
19:01Madrid, that hurts, it hurts a lot. I
19:04don’t know if you can imagine the
19:06anger there must be right now in the
19:07Chamartín offices, but let’s
19:09continue because there is more. Let’s
19:11talk about the reaction, about what
19:13Mbappé said—or rather, what he
19:15didn’t say. Because a guy who spent
19:19an entire year talking about the Ballon
19:21d'Or, asking for it, selling himself,
19:23suddenly stays quiet, very quiet, when
19:26he loses it. And that silence speaks
19:29louder than a thousand words. That
19:31silence is the silence of wounded pride
19:33, of someone who doesn't know what
19:35expression to make, who was so sure
19:37that he hadn't even prepared to lose.
19:39And while Mbappé swallowed his silence
19:40, do you know who was celebrating? Kane
19:43. The Englishman, the forgotten one.
19:46The guy went up to the stage emotional,
19:48speechless, thanking everyone who had
19:50voted for him, his teammates at Bayern,
19:52and his national team. Humble, simple,
19:55without fanfare, exactly the opposite
19:57of the Frenchman's noisy campaign. And
20:01there you have the perfect photo of the
20:02night: the one who did the least to
20:04sell himself lifting the trophy with
20:05tears in his eyes, and the one who sold
20:07himself the most sitting there
20:08applauding with a grimace. Football
20:11sometimes delivers poetic justice, and
20:12this was one of those times. Let me put
20:15into context how humiliating this is
20:17for Mbappé in sporting terms. Kane,
20:21the winner, had never even been close
20:23to this award—a guy who in his best
20:25years stayed out of the top 10—while
20:27Mbappé has been a Ballon d'Or
20:29candidate since he was practically a
20:30kid, years and years in the fight. And
20:34it turns out that the quiet veteran
20:36wins it the first time he truly sets
20:37his mind to it. And the Frenchman, who
20:39has been chasing it his whole life,
20:40still hasn't touched it. It really is
20:43something to look into. What is going
20:44on with Mbappé and the Ballon d'Or?
20:45What curse is hanging over him? Because
20:48it’s starting to seem like this award
20:49resists him in an almost supernatural
20:51way. And pay attention, because here is
20:53a fact that will make you think. Every
20:56time Mbappé has gotten close to the
20:57Ballon d'Or, something has happened.
20:59When he was at PSG, he didn't win it.
21:01When he arrived at Madrid loaded with
21:02goals, he didn't either. And now with
21:04the most aggressive campaign of his
21:06life, with everything in his favor,
21:08with the club breaking boycotts for him
21:09, it’s not just bad luck. It’s just
21:12that he doesn't quite convince those
21:13who vote. Or is there something more?
21:15Something that we are missing in the
21:16way this award is handed out? Because
21:19some say that Mbappé’s own image
21:21weighs him down, that his individualism
21:23, his way of selling himself, his ego,
21:25take a toll when it comes to voting;
21:27that those who vote punish that very
21:29arrogance, that no one wants to reward
21:31someone who acts superior. And if that
21:34is the case, then Mbappé has a very
21:35serious problem, because it is a
21:37problem that isn't fixed by scoring
21:39goals, it is a problem of character.
21:41Let's get into the character's head now
21:43, because this is important. Mbappé is
21:45not a normal soccer player. Mbappé is
21:47a brand, he is an empire. And all that
21:50machinery was built around the idea
21:52that this was his year, the year of his
21:54definitive consecration. Sponsors,
21:57advertising campaigns, documentaries,
21:59everything pointing to that moment when
22:01he would finally lift the Ballon d'Or.
22:04And that moment has not arrived, it has
22:06vanished, and now all that machinery is
22:08left hanging, looking foolish, just
22:10like its owner. Because it is not the
22:13same to sell a Ballon d'Or winner as it
22:15is to sell the guy who looked stunned
22:16when they gave it to Kane. And do you
22:18want to know what is hurting him the
22:19most of all? I'll tell you, what hurts
22:22him most isn't losing the award, what
22:24hurts him most is how he lost it. With
22:27the embarrassment of the Clásico, with
22:29Madrid’s failed comeback, with the
22:31website leaking the names, with his
22:32face caught by the cameras. He lost in
22:35the most humiliating way possible. It
22:37wasn't a dignified defeat; it was a
22:39spectacle. And in the internet age, a
22:41spectacle like that is not forgotten.
22:43It turns into memes, it turns into
22:44mockery, it turns into a stain that
22:46follows you. Look at how big this is,
22:48that these images are already being
22:50compared to the worst moments of other
22:52great stars, those instances where an
22:54idol falls from their pedestal in front
22:55of everyone. And Mbappé has just
22:59starred in one of those moments, a
23:01moment that, I assure you, we will be
23:03seeing repeated for years. The face,
23:07the expression, the exact moment when
23:09his dream shattered into a thousand
23:12pieces. But let me take you to the
23:14final reflection because I think there
23:16is a lesson here, and it is that in
23:18soccer, as in life, never take anything
23:20for granted. Mbappé took everything
23:23for granted and it backfired in the
23:24worst way, because while he was
23:26celebrating ahead of time, while he was
23:27smiling in the Clásico, while his club
23:29was breaking boundaries convinced of
23:31victory, there was a quiet Englishman
23:32in Munich scoring goals without saying
23:34a peep. And that quiet Englishman took
23:38the prize that the Frenchman thought
23:40was his by right. And this is where I
23:42ask myself the big question. The one I
23:44wanted to leave for the end: is
23:46Mbappé’s dream of the Ballon d'Or
23:48over forever, or will this serve as a
23:50lesson, will he drop the arrogance and
23:52come back stronger? Because there are
23:54two paths here. One, that this
23:56humiliation sinks him, that it gives
23:58him a trauma with this award, that it
24:00becomes his recurring nightmare. And
24:03two, that this ignites him, that it
24:04gives him the necessary rage, that he
24:06uses this ridicule as fuel to finally,
24:08one day, shut some mouths. I’m not
24:11sure because Mbappé has talent to
24:13spare, no one disputes that, but talent
24:15isn't the problem, the problem is
24:16everything else. The problem is his
24:19head, the problem is his ego, the
24:20problem is that habit of believing he's
24:22a winner before the time is right. And
24:24if he doesn't fix it, if he doesn't
24:25change that mentality, maybe in a few
24:27years we'll be telling the same story
24:29over and over again. That of the
24:32eternal aspirant, that of the guy who
24:33had everything to be the best and who,
24:35for one reason or another, always
24:36stayed at the gates. And it would be a
24:41shame because the kid can play, but in
24:42this sport, in the end, it’s not just
24:44how you play that counts, it’s how
24:46you behave, how you fall, and above all
24:48, how you get back up. And right now,
24:52Mbappé is on the ground, on the ground
24:54looking foolish with all of Europe
24:55watching him. So let's recap so that
24:57everything is crystal clear to you.
24:59Mbappé set up the most shameless
25:01campaign in recent history to win the
25:03Ballon d'Or. He promoted himself
25:05everywhere, asking for the award
25:07without any sense of shame. He rallied
25:09his country's press and even made that
25:11cocky gesture during the El Clásico,
25:13nodding his head as if he already had
25:14it in the bag. He managed to get Real
25:17Madrid to end a two-year boycott and
25:19return to the gala just for him. The
25:22official website even mistakenly
25:23published him as the winner. Everything
25:25pointed to him, everything. And in the
25:28end, at the moment of truth, the award
25:30went to Harry Kane, the quiet
25:31Englishman, and Mbappé was left with a
25:33stunned look that has gone around the
25:35world. And as if that weren't enough,
25:38there are now sources claiming he was
25:39betrayed, that they made him go all the
25:41way to London with the promise he would
25:43win, only to leave him stranded live on
25:44air. Was it a betrayal by France
25:46Football? Did Madrid make up their own
25:49story, or was it simply karma paying
25:51the Frenchman back for all the
25:53arrogance he'd been dishing out for a
25:55year? You decide that. I'll just tell
25:59you one thing: tonight in London, the
26:01loudest one didn't win; the top scorer
26:03did. And sometimes, just sometimes,
26:06football reminds you that believing
26:08you're the best isn't enough; you have
26:09to prove it quietly. And this time,
26:12Mbappé talked too much, and now it's
26:14your turn. What do you think? Do you
26:17think Mbappé was truly betrayed, or do
26:19you think he had it coming for being so
26:20cocky? Do you think he'll ever win the
26:23Ballon d'Or, or is this the start of
26:25his personal curse with this award?
26:27Leave it in the comments, as I love
26:29reading and debating with you all. And
26:32if you liked this video, if you want to
26:33keep finding out what's really
26:35happening in the world of football,
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26:43you in the next one, because there will
26:44be plenty to talk about; I assure you,
26:46this Ballon d'Or drama is far from over
26:48. See you.

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