Guardiola responds to Real Madrid boycotting Ballon d'Or

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola admits that 'maybe' Madrid's Vinicius Junior deserved the Ballon d'Or

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00:00Manchester City were well represented last night, but Real Madrid obviously had the second and third in the list, but they weren't represented

00:08What do you think about that? It seems slightly

00:11Odd in a team sport that you don't like nothing nothing to say if they wanna they wanna go is fine

00:17They don't know it's fine as well. So they want to congratulate. It's fine. They don't want to do it. It's fine as well

00:23So absolutely Manchester City were not here to judge what the other clubs decide what they have to do. So

00:30I

00:32Would say for us even last season, for example that Erling won the treble more than 50 goals and

00:41And I said to him just being there is you have to be so so happy

00:46I remember one three players from the academy from Barcelona La Masia

00:49We were nominated all three, you know to win the Ballon d'Or and Chaby Iniesta could not win because it was a monster

00:56And messy nobody could beat him the judge Cristiano, you know

00:59Cristiano was a monster and the father of the monster is messy and both, you know have done something incredible in the last

01:0720 years, I would say 50 20 years and and maybe in that moment Chaby Iniesta deserve it as well

01:12You understand people that feel that Vinicius should have won that. Yeah, of course

01:17Of course he deserved maybe if you should have win would be more than well deserve