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Facts, feelings, however you judge it — Harry Kane must win Ballon d’Or
✍️ @JNorthcroft
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Respect to Harry Kane imagine having this kind of Season and not joining Mbappe and YAMAL to be begging for the Ballon d'Or
Nobody deserves it more than him this year and whether he wins it or not it doesn't change how I feel about the season he had
I don't need to be a Bayern or Harry Kane fan to appreciate what he did
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🧵 Reasons why Harry Kane 🏴 should be the only one worthy of winning the Ballon D'or 🌕 this season. He's the only player who passes all the three criteria set by the offical Ballon D'or. Here's how 👇🏻
1) Individual performances, decisive and impressive Character.
INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE - the second best individual season in the history of football. 73 goals and 8 assist.
DECISIVE AND IMPRESSIVE CHARACTER - Kane is the decisive player by stats in world cup and UCL knockouts with 12GA. Kane scored 22GA in 15 knockout games and scored 5 Hattricks. Kane not only plays only on the forward like other ballon d'or nominees but helps the team throughout the field in defence and midfield. He even plays as a chance creating attacking midfielder and created countless chances for goals including England's only goal in the world cup semi final and many at bayern which are even appreciated by UCL.
2) Team Performance and Achivements.
TEAM PERFORMANCE - Both England and Bayern performed really well with bayern winning the domestic trebel Beckenbauer German Super Cup, DFB POKAL, and the Bundesliga and reached the UCL semi final. England also reached the world cup semi final and was robbed off Messi's second go which was a clear foul on Djed Spence. They went on to beat france and win the world cup bronze medal.
ACHIEVEMENTS - Harry Kane has won Bundesliga golden boot and is the only player in the Bundesliga history to win it three times in a row. Kane has also won Pokal Golden Boot with record of highest goal scored on a single season. He's also scored 5 Hattricks and one in the pokal final. Harry Kane has won the European golden boot being the best goal scorer in Europe and second best goal scoring seson in history of football. He's won both German Footballer of the year and German Sport blid football star of the year.
3) Class and Fair Play
FAIR PLAY - He doesn't get involved in any fight or trash talking in the middle of the game and even after the game in interviews while all other nominees does.
CLASS - Everyone knows after all the PR stunts pulled from other so called contenders there's only one players who's maintained class and fair play. Every interview he gave he didn't disrespect his contenders while others disrespected him. He publicly said I want to be the guy who puts the club first and said I don't want to speak about myself while my achivements alone speak for themselves.
As for off the field class he's had a mental health institute, married his childhood sweetheart, no scandals, no controversial moment in almost 20 years of being a footballer.
A perfect role model and an inspiration to everyone and to add that the best striker of this generation.
Harry Kane our Ballon D'or winner 🌕🏆
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Harry Kane - 25/26
THE CLEAR FAVOURITE AND THE RIGHTFUL BALLON D'OR WINNER🌕⌛
⚽73 goals
🅰️8 assist
🥈Second best season in the history of football
🏆Gred Muller Trophy
🏆European golden boot
🏆Bundesliga
🏆German Super cup
🏆DFB Pokal
🏆Bundesliga golden boot
🏆Pokal Golden boot
🏆German Footballer of the year
🥇Record 10 goals in pokal (Finals hattrick)
🥇Most G/A in knockouts in UCL and World Cup (12 G/A)
🥈Second top UCL goal scorer (14goals 2assist)
🥉World Cup Bronze(6goals 1assist)
🌪️22GA in 15 knockout games (13/15 scored)
🔴11/11 Knockout games for bayern (16goals 2assist) including UCL RO16, QF, SF, Pokal games
🏴2/4 knockout games for england at world cup (3goals 1assist) including RO32, RO16.
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Ich habe ein paar Schüler aus der Oberstufe reden hören, und sie meinten: „Nie im Leben haben Millennials 10-seitige Hausarbeiten ohne KI geschrieben.
Schätzchen …
Wir haben sie geschrieben, ohne das Buch überhaupt gelesen zu haben – am Abend vorher, kurz bevor sie fällig waren.
MIT DER HAND!
IN SCHREIBSCHRIFT!
Wir sind einfach nicht dasselbe Kaliber.
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HARRY KANE MAKES HISTORY 🏴⚡️
The striker just smashed a RECORD never seen before in world football.
Find out here ➡️ lequipe.non.li/Qs
#ballondor #harrykane #bayern
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1️⃣ day, 1️⃣ nominee
🏴 Harry Kane
#ballondor
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Any narrative around Kane’s game in the Ballon d’Or run-in is incredibly disingenuous if you look to simplify his game to just goals. He’s my pick for the best player in the Ballon d’Or window for a few reasons.
Arguably the most impactful player across the entirety of the pitch in the world and that’s before out scoring any player in world football (which puts people in the conversation itself).
A great understanding and willingness to engage in the pressing game and hard defensive work. A cheat code in build-up. The intelligence to drop deep and figure out where opponent’s weak spots are in the early part of the game before exploiting them later on. A superb passing game. Arguably the best finisher in the world.
Domestically dominant, breaking attacking and results records. In the UCL, his performances and output in the tougher games were excellent and better than almost every name he’s up against. Late, tight elimination to the winners is nothing to ashamed of when his individual performances in those games were impressive too.
Slightly underwhelming relative to his top standards in the World Cup but he was still good. A third place finish and a key part played pre Argentina is not enough to demote him for me.
Taking the average of performance + impact, it’s hard to put anybody else above.
Olise is there.
Lamine was great but on performances I have him below Kane because he suffered from not being the protagonist always whilst much of Bayern and England’s game ran through Kane from build-up to finishing moves. The system’s he played in were well drilled and responsibility was shared in a way that explains why some of Arsenal’s players miss out on individual plaudits - in seasons the sum of the team can be greater than its parts.
Kvaratskhelia was excellent but without a World Cup campaign.
Mbappe, for me, underwhelms on many fronts last season — his protaginism gave him great output but not always in the bigger games domestically. He lacked impact across more parts of the game (defensively, build-up, creation) compared to a Kane and his performances didn’t provide greater winning impact for his side - both France/RM underperformed expectation with both teams making them their main man.
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WOWWWWW LE DISS QU’IL A LÂCHÉ SUR MBAPPÉ JE N’AI JAMAIS VU ÇA PTDDDDDRRRRRRRR
🗣️ @LyesBouzidi10
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Vincent Kompany on the Ballon d'Or: "I want my players to be successful, so I'll do what every other coach did, I'll be 100% biased and will say that as long as Harry Kane or Michael Olise win it, then I'm happy. These guys were part of a team that scored 182 goals last season and won so many football matches. I don't know if there was a team that scored more goals per game in the history of the top 5 leagues. The only thing you can debate is whether it [Ballon d'Or] is decided by the Champions League or not. We didn't win the Champions League, so then you have to give everything to the players who won the Champions League. But if you look at 182 goals, 3.5 goals per game - that was these guys. These guys were also defending, making tackles on the edge of our box, creating from midfield. Maybe everything goes to the Champions League winner, then it's just like that. But other than that there are teams who did something special that's never been done before, and these players were part of that"
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If our team could vote, the result would be clear. 👑 @HKane #ballondor
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We do not need to over-complicate what should be a simple award: Harry Kane has been, by some distance, the best footballer anywhere in the world over the last year.
To watch Kane right now, in the year he turned 33, is to feel in the presence of mastery. He continues to add layers to his game, marrying his unique football brain with technical ingenuity. He is not just the world’s best No 9 but probably the world’s best No 10 too.
No one else in the running can make a claim like that.
@JackPittBrooke: nyti.ms/4xJfmMW
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Politik beginnt mit dem Betrachten der Wirklichkeit. Das heißt, die AfD ist Wahlsieger in Sachsen-Anhalt. Und das muss für alle demokratischen Kräfte bedeuten, dass nichts mehr bleiben kann, wie es ist und wir unsere Politik und unseren Politikstil grundlegend überdenken müssen.
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🚨🗣️ Pep Guardiola on the Ballon d’Or
'Harry deserves it. What he has done, the goals, the consistency, the way he makes the team better for me, this is what the Ballon d’Or should be about. He has been incredible. If you ask me, Harry Kane should win it.'
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An open letter to the football family from AFC, CONCACAF and UEFA: ⬇️
uefa.com/news-media/news/02a…
