Scandal in the Ballon d'or: He does not exist

Scandal in the Ballon d'or: ”He does not exist”

Abdou Boina had the Ballon d'or-the voice of the african country of the Comoros.

the Problem? Neither the site Boina purporting to work for or he himself seems to exist.

"I thought I was hallucinating when I read that Albalad Comores still existed," says the journalist Toiminou Abdou to Marca.

this Year's Ballon d'or gala was a spectacular story.

Lyons Norwegian anfallsstjärna Ada Hegerberg was the first woman to win the Ballon d'or, but afterwards she asked if she could ”twerka” by the French dj-artist Martin Solveig.

And afterwards the criticism rained down towards the Solveig who apologised.

”For the first time, shared this prize to a woman, then destroy this cheap fucking idiot this moment !!!! FY FAAAAAAAN!”, wrote ex-landslagsstjärnan Johanna Almgren on Twitter.

He voted – but does not exist

And now the dark headlines of football's finest individual price.

the Spanish Marca has reviewed the jurydeltagarna for the award, which is awarded by the fotbollsjournalister, managers and captains around the world.

And the name Abdou Boina, who has been the voice for the african country of the Comoros, has created a major question mark.

Abdou Boina said, namely that he writes for the site albaladcomores.com.

the Problem? albaladcomores.com closures 2012. And the site had either never had any employee by the name of Abdou Boina.

" I thought I was hallucinating when I read that Albalad Comores still existed. They laid down six years ago and there was never anyone there named Abdou Boina. We had two employees winner of the world – Abdoul Youssouf for the French edition and Sharif Ousseine for the arab, says the journalist Toiminou Abdou, who previously worked for Albalad Comores, to Marca.

Got their ranking reversed

Abdou Boina gave this year his voice to PSG and French national team star Kylian Mbappé followed by Luka Modric (who won the award), Cristiano Ronaldo, Eden Hazard and Mohamed Salah.

And the news about Abdou Boinas non-existent puts a silly shimmer over the price, believe Marca, who also points out that the Trinidad and Tobago representative Lasana Liburd had their choice in this year's vote in the wrong order when they were presented by France Football (as awarded).

– There is no history on someone who calls himself Abdou Boina. I could understand if it was a mistake from France Football about the journalist belonged to a specific journal, but this person does not exist even, says Stepahne Ahamadi, chairman of the union of journalists in the Comoros, to Marca.