Zlatan Ibrahimovic and the Ballon d’Or scandal | Gramellini coffee

How is it possible that Ibrahimovic never received the Ballon d’Or? It was repeatedly given to Messi, even when he didn’t deserve it, as this tall, arrogant-looking man, who won the championship for every team he played for, reached the threshold of forty without being recognized there. that belongs to him. But have you seen him, in Udine, climb upside down on that lost ball? If he had hit him well, he might not have scored the winning goal. Instead, she touched him with a frown, an unattractive but damned useful gesture. And the move to Kessie where AC Milan’s first goal was born? Ibra understands things just before they happen. Unlike the rulers of half the world, who for a year have been being confused by the facts, he schedules the movements according to what the team needs, with an essentiality that does not care about aesthetics. however, it leaves you spellbound. Usually at their age, champions go out to winter in ridiculous tournaments or work their muscles by playing match coins. Ibra, by contrast, manages to be as reactive as a twenty-year-old and as decisive as a thirty-year-old.

Philip Roth was always denied the Nobel Prize in Literature. Let’s hope the blasphemy is not repeated and that Ibrahimovic receives the Ballon d’Or, at least for his career. He will not have won a Champions League or a World Cup. But time has won, and I’m sorry for little.