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Extended Clip - Ballon d’Or: Kvaratskhelia, Rafa Leao & future Serie A winners
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Carlo Garganese and Nima Tavallaey discuss which players currently in the Serie A, have a realistic shot to one day win the Ballon d'Or out of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Rafael Leao, Lautaro Martinez and Federico Chiesa.
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Introduction to Italian Football Podcast
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Welcome to
Future Ballon d'Or Hopes in Serie A
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Milan winning the Champions League that year and he deservedly won the Ballon d'Or that year. I want to look at which Serie A and Italian player has the best chance of winning the Ballon d'Or in the future. I think we know realistically that it's going to be very, very difficult for a player to win the Ballon d'Or while playing in Serie A as a current Serie A player. And the only time that was ever going to happen is if
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the Italian football podcast.
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Italy won the Euros or the World
Challenges for Serie A Players Winning Ballon d'Or
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Cup. Obviously they won the Euros in 2020 or rather last year and Giorgino, but he was playing in the Premier League. If they were to win the World Cup, obviously not in the World Cup this year.
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and you know there's a top Italian player that there is a key player then they maybe they could win the let's just say 2026 or maybe euro 2024 there is a you know a slight chance maybe they could win they could win that year but the chances of a current Serie A player winning the Ballon d'Or is going to be very very difficult because it would need an Italian team to win the
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the Champions League, which is going to be very difficult. We can all dream about Napoli, but realistically, we know it's going to be very going to be almost
Key Players in the Ballon d'Or Race
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impossible. So I guess we're looking really at Italian players, so somebody that's maybe playing abroad, or we're looking at a current Serie A player that can get a big move to maybe the Premier League or to, you know, Real Madrid or Barcelona or someone and then maybe win it there in the next years. So
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Let's run down the list. Who do you think has a chance is a potential Ballon d'Or winner in the future? Just based on his individual skill and his numbers and the way that he's, or both of them, two players stand out for me. Based on who they are, the position they have on the pitch, the style of play, how they beat their man, their output in terms of goals,
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They're the ones that stand out for me, but I wonder how long they'll stay in the city, because I think that unless Liao extends his contract, I think he's gone in the summer, and we know that should someone lose their mind and pay stupid money to Aurelio de la Rentez for Carathelia, he's gone.
Federico Chiesa's Potential and Challenges
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That's just how he operates.
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But those are the main two contenders for me. I've got a question mark around Federico Chiesa because that's a serious injury. Can he come back? Can he come back to the same level? Doesn't he risk pulling, injuring his other knee after an injury like that? I've got question marks.
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And also he used to leave Juventus. He's never going to win the Ballon d'Or with Juventus.
Vlahovic, Lautaro, and the Competition
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Juventus not winning the Champions League. You're not even getting in the Champions League. I think in terms of pure talent, Gueso does have the talent to maybe challenge for it, but obviously the injury is going to set him back.
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the only, I mean, Wlawicz, I'm not sure, to be honest. I think that Wlawicz, as a pure goalscorer, and I really am a big believer in how far this guy can go, I think he's always going to have someone. I think Mbappe and Harland
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as goal scorers as well, even though there's certainly more to Mbappe's game than just being a goal scorer. I think those two are always, they're similar age to him, same age as him. They're always going to be, I think, just half a step ahead of him at the least. So I think for that reason, every single year, it's going to be like, well,
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Vlalovic, are you better than Mbappe or Haaland this year? And I think the answer would nearly always be no, certainly to both of them.
Lautaro's Prospects and Messi's Influence
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And for that reason, I wouldn't put Vlalovic in there, but you never know. Valtaro, I think, again, I think he's a step below the very elite, like,
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Harland and Mbappe and I don't see him being able to reach the very highest level like maybe Cavarr can. Look if Lautaro Martinez, the only way Lautaro Martinez can win the Ballon d'Or is if Argentina win the World Cup this year and he's the top goalscorer.
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scoring like eight, nine goals. Then I think... Yeah, but then they'll give it to Messi. Well, exactly. That's exactly what it is. Messi will go there. Messi will be injured on the bench for the whole tournament. If Argentina win the World Cup, Messi is winning the World Cup Golden Football and he's winning the Ballon d'Or. It doesn't even matter if he plays a minute on the...
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of a football in Qatar. If Argentina win the World Cup, they're going to give the Ballon d'Or to Messi, and that's that. So it doesn't matter what Laotaro
Outsiders: Donnarumma and Verratti
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does. But if Argentina win the World Cup, and I think they will, if he becomes a top goalscore, if he becomes the most important player of that Argentina side, which I think there's a good chances for him to be, then I do think that we'll see a
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we'll see he has a good chance but if we're talking in terms of club football he needs to stop being patchy like he needs to stop going eight nine goals games without scoring in order for him to to become amongst those you know to be considered amongst them the highest yeah for sure the only other one i could make an argument was don aruma in goal because he's so super human but we know that goalkeepers just don't win the palantor and the last one to win it was leviashin and
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Was it 963 or 964? So we're talking about 60 years and so I think it's unlikely and the only other kind of world beat, I mean, Verratti, but they're not going to give it to a central midfielder that doesn't score and that doesn't get many assists, even if he's the best central midfielder and the best player in the world.
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If he was, they won't give it to him. So yeah, I think those are the ones that maybe we can keep an eye on.
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