A journalist from France Football said that “the winner of the Ballon d’Or is a great secret”

Despite the fact that the name of Lionel Messi sounds strong as the winner, for the seventh time, of the Ballon d’Or, Pascal Ferré maintained that it is still “a great secret.” The journalist from the magazine France Football has knowledge of who will be the footballer who will win the award this Monday, November 29, as the best player of the last season.

The award given by the acclaimed French magazine returns after being stopped by the pandemic and everyone is attentive to the decision that is made regarding it. Therefore, for Ferré keeping the secret about the winner of the 2021 Ballon d’Or is essential.

“It is the sixth year that I have been responsible for this and so far I have not made a single mistake. I don’t want to lie, but I tell everyone who calls me that I can’t say the name because the winners themselves don’t even know it yet. It would not be fair to find out like this ”, argued the journalist.

He also considered that it is important to wait until the announcement within the gala: “We are very careful. The winner of the Ballon d’Or is a big secret. I don’t think there is a comparable situation in sport ”.

The editor of France Football referred, as an anecdote, to the occasion in which the Real Madrid midfielder won the award: “Luka Modric cried like a child when I called him.”

Cristiano Ronaldo and the Ballon d’Or

To date, Lionel Messi has a Ballon d’Or more than Cristiano Ronaldo; and, apparently, it is something that affects the Portuguese. According to Ferré, the objective of CR7 is to get more times the trophy of the French magazine: “Ronaldo only has one ambition and that is to retire with more Ballon d’Or than Messi and I know it because he told me.”