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[BarcaOG]

well, he might have a point. goals attract glory (and individual awards). if messi played with CR his goal tally (via tap ins and other assists) would probably be far higher. its part of the reason why Xavi and Iniesta never won a ballon d'or, despite playing brilliant, mind-numbing football for years.

 

[Raed]

He won it because he was vocal and supportive of his team mates. He didn't win it for banging in many goals. He is a captain and he did what a captain needed to do when it mattered, and that is take ownership of his team mates motivation.

 

[FlaFCB]

Haha, c'mon, Raed. Even you falling for this bs? he should win coach of the year as well, then.

 

[DonAK]

He won it because he was vocal and supportive of his team mates. He didn't win it for banging in many goals. He is a captain and he did what a captain needed to do when it mattered, and that is take ownership of his team mates motivation.

I agree.

Telling Eder he dreamed about him scoring surely helped.

 

[TornAndFrayed]

He won it because he was vocal and supportive of his team mates. He didn't win it for banging in many goals. He is a captain and he did what a captain needed to do when it mattered, and that is take ownership of his team mates motivation.

More than any other year in recent memory have actual performances meant so little in deciding the award. That is messed up.

 

[raskolnikov]

He won it because he was vocal and supportive of his team mates. He didn't win it for banging in many goals. He is a captain and he did what a captain needed to do when it mattered, and that is take ownership of his team mates motivation.

My hypthesis is this: Ronaldo wants attention more than anything in the world.

With that in mind everything he does makes sense: Trying to be Dinho at united, Knowing exatly when cameras are on him with the faces and gestures, weird free kick stance to stand out, weird celebrations to stand out, introducing a chant after a goal, celebrating alone while the rest of the team celebrates with the goalie that just saved your cl and future ballon d'or by correcting your mistake, not celebrating teammates goals etc, taking off your shirt of to show your abs all the time depsite being a diver etc.

On a positive note its many goals and hard work, gets you most attention and can help you keep it up for years.
Ballon d'or is the ultimate attention for one person trophy you can win in a team sport. In my opinion also the award he values the most.

Him, Mendes, Flo made the whole thing about goalscoring since he cant compete with Messi otherwise. Think about, before it was never about goals, it was about the best player or best player in a team that won biggest tropies. It was flawed but youd never expect an Inzaghi to win it.

So logically a declining player like him becomes the ultimate poacher. That way he can score 1/2 goals, play shit 90 minutes and nobody will remember it. "Yeah he scored 60 goals, youre a hater if you think he sucked"!
stats bring attention and erase memories, pr brings attention, shitload of people endorsing you in Madrid media helps. Waiting to take the last penalty to snatch all the glory in a cl final helps despite it backfiring at ec 2012.

Milking an injury for the camera and pretending to be coach to take the attention to you rather than the rest of the team playing also helps as seen in your comment.
Shitload of people who have bad memories and remember "him leading them to glory"

 

[gasgas]

Narcissist
Histrionic personality disorder

 

[Ghostmaster]

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[BarcaOG]

That's the Ballon D'or winner for ya...

 

[iniesta_8]

Coached Portugal to Euro title!

Won penalties in CL-final just by himself!

---> GIVE HIM BALLON D'OR!

 

[El Flaco]

In the recent days, both Zizou & VdB regard CR7 as the best player in Real Madrid's history.

Zidane: "Cristiano Ronaldo is the best player in the history of Real Madrid. Any player can come here and they will never be able to achived what Cristiano Ronaldo has achieved. There will never be anyone the same"


Vicente del Bosque: "Cristiano Ronaldo is the best player in the history of Real Madrid for the records he holds, and always without devaluing other players."

Due to his commercial value, Real Madrid has huge incentive to maintain his image as the best player in the world. That's why Real Madrid players and coaches will often come out and say things like this. It's very important to the them that he wins Ballon d'or. Whenever Ronaldo has a string of good performances, first thing news article will talk about is how Ronaldo can win Ballon d'or. Real Madrid wins CL and possibly the league this season because they have the best midfield in the world, but Ronaldo will always receive the lion's share of the credit, because that's how the team wants it to be.

 

[FlaFCB]

Poor Di Stefano. Much more important than cr for rm, can't even compare them.

 

[KingMessi]

Poor Di Stefano. Much more important than cr for rm, can't even compare them.

Shoulda played for Barca.

 

[BarcaOG]

thats a massive, massive insult to Real's history. and from past real players/coaches!

 

[Horatio]

It's funny how coaches alike have started to downgrade Ronaldo to 'beste player OF Real Madrid'. Too anxious to make the claim anymore that he is the best player.