Real Madrid president blasted in Ballon d'Or row
Briefly

"Essentially, I suspect it's just words from somebody who is frustrated, Mr. Perez that is. If he feels like people from my country, and the other countries mentioned do not have a significant vote because we are inferior people, I would just like to know, if I was from one of the leading football nations, and I disagreed with his opinion, what would his argument be?"
"Nobody knows who [the journalists] are" and arguing the Ballon d'Or should be "independently organised" and voted on by "people who are well-known." This standpoint seems to discredit voices from lesser-known territories.
Read at ESPN.com
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