Arsenal ahead Vivianne Miedema has criticised the Ballon d’Or and claims they don’t deal with girls’s footballers pretty.
- Miedema criticises Ballon d’Or awards
- ‘Did not really feel appreciated’ at ceremony
- Requires higher equality
WHAT HAPPENED? The Dutch ahead attended this 12 months’s ceremony with companion and Ballon d’Or Feminin runner-up Beth Mead, however has since criticised the establishment and the ceremony for its therapy of girls’s footballers. Seven awards have been introduced throughout the male recreation on the night time in October 2022, however just one award exists throughout the girls’s recreation. Miedema voiced her ideas on the ceremony.
WHAT SHE SAID: Talking on the BBC’s Behind the Objectives podcast, she defined: “I did not really feel appreciated as a girl footballer there.
“In the event that they need to have girls concerned, they must do it differently,” Miedema added: “That they had 5 or 6 totally different awards for the boys’s recreation whereas the ladies solely have one. In the event that they need to make it equal, they’ve to offer the identical awards to males’s and ladies’s soccer.”
THE BIGGER PICTURE: The Ballon d’Or Feminin award was solely launched within the 2018 iteration of the ceremony in honour of the very best feminine participant of the 12 months, with Norwegian Ada Hegerberg profitable the inaugural prize. Barcelona’s Alexia Putellas noticed off Arsenal’s Mead to clinch back-to-back Ballons d’Or in 2022, the place the runner-up was additionally egregiously described as Miedema’s ‘visitor’ in an image caption on the night time.
Miedema commented on the impression of the error: “Waking up the following morning and that image pops up, that states the problem we had the night time earlier than.
“We have the quantity two from that 12 months, who ought to arguably have been primary, turning as much as the occasion as ‘my visitor’. That might clearly by no means occur if Messi and Neymar had been strolling subsequent to one another.”
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WHAT NEXT FOR MIEDEMA? Having simply returned from a relaxation break, Miedema is again to her scintillating greatest for Arsenal of their home and European push for silverware.