Former UEFA president, Michel Platini, has stated that Raphael Varane deserves this year’s Ballon D’or award ahead of Lionel Messi and Ronaldo.
According to him, the French man who won the world cup and UEFA champions league all in 2018 deserves the award.
“It has never been easier than this year to choose who is going to win the Ballon d’Or,” Platini told RMC.
“It’s a Frenchman who is going to win the Ballon d’Or. I hope so. There’s only one player who has won the Champions League and the World Cup – it’s Varane. There’s always the Ronaldo-Messi debate, but this year there’s only one, one who has won all that, his name is Varane.
“He’s an excellent player. I would have voted for him, the results are the only objective thing, everything else is subjective.
“We can have opinions about Griezmann, Mbappé, [Olivier] Giroud, [Hugo] Lloris, Modrić… But the only one who has won everything this year is Raphael Varane.”
