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00:00 The hope and secret about this year's Ballon d'Or is that Lionel Messi and Erling Haaland
00:04 are the frontrunners for the award.
00:06 In this episode, the jury is out to decide who wins the award and how they should be
00:11 determined.
00:12 My name is Ayobidi Shetubor, I bid you welcome to a fresh episode of Nutmeg on Guardian TV.
00:22 Let's see what people on the streets think because we did hit the road to see what people
00:28 feel about it.
00:30 Lionel Messi, he did very well, extremely well at this last World Cup.
00:34 Haaland did very well at Champions League but at international, at national team level,
00:41 he has not done that well.
00:43 He's still an upcoming player.
00:45 Winning English Premiership and European Champions League does not mean automatically that he
00:49 has to win Ballon d'Or.
00:52 To me, Messi is not in this contest because he only performed in the World Cup and that
00:58 performance in the World Cup even boils down to him scoring a lot of penalties.
01:04 Compared to Haaland who won the treble, that's huge.
01:08 Messi will win the Ballon d'Or because World Cup is above any tournament.
01:14 You have the chance to win it ahead of Haaland.
01:17 I prefer Haaland to win it because he did so much.
01:22 Just look at the Premiership, look what he did.
01:25 He scored multiple goals.
01:28 He created a history that has not been done before.
01:31 He just came into the Premiership and did something exceptional.
01:34 Now for Messi, Messi is good.
01:36 He's good, he's outstanding but I think it would be partial if they should give it to
01:41 Messi.
01:42 For him scoring or for him winning treble with Manchester City under Guardiola, he's
01:48 doing good but he hasn't reached the aim of Lionel Messi of Getu in the game.
01:56 Being the highest-scoring scorer now or scoring a series of goals now, he's trying, he's still
02:02 doing it but it's not up to Lionel Messi.
02:05 Traditionally, in football, people seem to give more credence to Messi.
02:11 Even when he's not even performing.
02:13 With his current game with PSG last season and his performance, he doesn't deserve the
02:19 Ballon d'Or.
02:20 But if you want to consider the World Cup, in my own view, he doesn't deserve the Ballon
02:24 d'Or because you can't judge a student by just one course out of like four courses.
02:31 He played in the league, he played in the Champions League.
02:35 So why should we use only the World Cup to judge him?
02:39 I'll go for Eline Haaland because national team-wise, Eline Haaland has been performing
02:43 very well for the national team.
02:46 Club side, he's at the best, both in the league, in the Champions League and in every competition.
02:55 So I think Eline Haaland is the best for me.
02:58 I think the right candidate for the Ballon d'Or is KDB, Kevin De Bruyne.
03:05 It's not Messi.
03:06 Messi has completed football by winning the World Cup, but I don't think winning the World
03:11 Cup alone should be a criteria for winning the Ballon d'Or.
03:16 Haaland himself, he was able to score lots of goals because there was KDB to give the
03:22 assist.
03:23 So I think KDB deserves, in the last three, four seasons, he has been consistent with
03:28 assists and so I think he deserves to win the Ballon d'Or.
03:33 I think he should win Oshime also.
03:37 I mean, Napoli has not won the league for over 33 years.
03:40 Messi should not even be in top five.
03:43 Basically for Ballon d'Or, it should go to Lionel Messi for the fact that he also mentioned
03:47 he completed football, just like everyone has been saying, and also he played a crucial
03:52 role in Argentina winning the World Cup.
03:55 Without Messi doing that World Cup campaign, I don't think Argentina would even be anywhere
03:59 close to winning it.
04:00 I mean, I support Madrid, so literally you should know I would not want Messi to win
04:04 the Ballon d'Or.
04:06 So in terms of Erling Haaland, Haaland had a very fantastic season.
04:12 His goals, winning the Champions League, in fact he won treble.
04:16 So he did absolutely well.
04:18 But now, it's the World Cup year.
04:20 I know in the World Cup year, the Ballon d'Or is being given sometimes in the World Cup
04:25 year.
04:26 Who wants the World Cup?
04:27 For me, I would choose Kylian Mbappé.
04:32 He did well, scored a hard trick in the final, he pushed.
04:37 So we don't have no choice.
04:39 The Ballon d'Or must go to Messi because it's the World Cup year and he won it.
04:43 What is yours?
04:44 You can tell us in the comments section.
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05:03 Well, my name is Amidishah Tubor.
05:04 I'll see you in the next episode.
05:06 Goodbye.
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