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Bertrand Latour on Mbappé Ballon d'Or campaign

The robbery line is what got me, but the whole Bertrand Latour rant on Kylian Mbappé's Ballon d'Or push is worth hearing out. The French football pundit says you don't throw away a friendship of 10 years chasing that award, and honestly the part about voters not caving to a superstar's pressure landed too. His claim is nobody in history has campaigned this hard for it. Then he goes after the details: Mbappé calling Africa an important continent for the cause while having been there only four times, and having done every interview in France except Mickey Mouse magazine. Latour even drags the 2027 presidential election into it just to say football is played on the pitch. His real point is simpler, win matches, win trophies, earn your teammates' respect, show some class, and don't blow up a decade of friendship over a Ballon d'Or when you haven't won anything that season. He does give Mbappé his flowers as a major player scoring around 40 goals a year who'll win it eventually if the silverware comes. But this time, in his words, Mbappé pushed for nothing and finished second. The bit I can't get past is Latour saying he doesn't even understand how Mbappé is ahead of Lamine Yamal. Calls the whole thing a robbery. And he thinks without all that campaigning, the podium might not have happened at all

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Bertrand Latour on Mbappé Ballon d'Or campaign

The robbery line is what got me, but the whole Bertrand Latour rant on Kylian Mbappé's Ballon d'Or push is worth hearing out. The French football pundit says you don't throw away a friendship of 10 years chasing that award, and honestly the part about voters not caving to a superstar's pressure landed too. His claim is nobody in history has campaigned this hard for it. Then he goes after the details: Mbappé calling Africa an important continent for the cause while having been there only four times, and having done every interview in France except Mickey Mouse magazine. Latour even drags the 2027 presidential election into it just to say football is played on the pitch. His real point is simpler, win matches, win trophies, earn your teammates' respect, show some class, and don't blow up a decade of friendship over a Ballon d'Or when you haven't won anything that season. He does give Mbappé his flowers as a major player scoring around 40 goals a year who'll win it eventually if the silverware comes. But this time, in his words, Mbappé pushed for nothing and finished second. The bit I can't get past is Latour saying he doesn't even understand how Mbappé is ahead of Lamine Yamal. Calls the whole thing a robbery. And he thinks without all that campaigning, the podium might not have happened at all

3h