2026 Ballon d’Or: Raphinha lists three reasons Yamal should win award

Barcelona captain, Raphinha, has listed reasons teammate, Lamine Yamal should triumph the 2026 Ballon d’Or.

Raphinha has claimed Yamal possesses the unsocial operation of silverware and idiosyncratic brilliance to assertion football’s astir prestigious idiosyncratic honour.

At slightest 100 journalists astir the satellite are preparing to taxable their last votes to France Football by September 28, to find this year’s winner.

In an interrogation with La Gazzetta dello Sport, Raphinha said: “Above all, I judge that winning the Ballon d’Or is astir idiosyncratic statistics, squad honors and the magic helium has connected the pitch. Charisma and everything similar this.

“For me, these are the astir important points to triumph the award. And I deliberation Lamine has them all.”

Raphinha was excluded from the last 30-man shortlist for the award, portion Yamal made the cut.

2026 Ballon d’Or: Raphinha lists 3 reasons Yamal should triumph award