 Welcome back to the breakfast in Plasti, Africa. We head straight to our third conversation in no time we'll be out of here but the conversation about who deserved the Balandor is ongoing. Should it be Messi, Robert Lewandowski, Mbappe amongst others? We do have Moses Iqpo who joins us this morning to share his thoughts on the issue. Good morning Moses and thank you for joining us. Good morning, it's a pleasure from here. All right so quickly let's head straight to the crux of the matter. Who do you think deserves the Balandor? Messi, does he really deserve it? What we want to realize is that football has gone beyond what the fans think personally and football has gone scientific. There is a lot of technical input, voting process that FIFA undertakes to avoid such doubts, though to the fans it might not just be what they want but let's look at it from the literal aspect of it. A COVID situation last year for me I felt affected a little bit of the decision making and knowing that Messi has always been there on top as one of the kings between him and Ciro Ronaldo. It was I think it should have been a tough decision for the technical committee and those voting coaches and the captains around the world that voted for the Balandor technical committee. In the case of Lewandowski, Mbappe and a fiver of Messi, Messi quality is not a doubt, his accident is not a doubt. He's a good player, he's a king in his own making. Lewandowski by some fans feel that actually he deserves to have been the closest rival at this period but all the same there are people as parts that have looked into a lot of factors, considering performance and I think Lewandowski was affected by the COVID and that is why Messi just took it from him as a king. But you know the argument that fans have actually put out it's really what we can see talking about the number of goals scored you know in the season and it feels not feels but it is if you look at it that Robert Lewandowski seemed to have the highest goals scored and even their assists when you juxtapose that with that of Messi and also looking at Mbappe Ronaldo as well. Now if you look at Mbappe you look at Lewandowski look at the goals and assists you look at their stats and the background all is not about the highest goals scored, it's not about the the one with the most number of assists. There is a lot of things that have been considered which includes the play in the team how you contribute to your team success and the value of the player during the game, what is his influence, a little factor yeah you would have given it to Lewandowski by saying that yeah he scored more goals if we are trying to look at the king in terms of goals scoring or number of assists but you look at the contribution so far to the teams and the artistic of the players and you would have given it to see Ronaldo because like for me I am a very passionate fan of Ronaldo and that's why I have always tried to avoid this conversation because I always feel sort of because I mean look at most of the coaches we believe is a product of coaches hardworking and see Ronaldo is made from God, a natural gifted, a gifted player but Lewandowski should have gotten the goal but it doesn't just stop there, it goes beyond just scoring goals, it also looks, we looked at the areas of contribution to your teams and the performance so far and of course you know that most people and most of the technical committee that are put in this process would have of course looked at Messi as one of the best players in the world and would have seen it as a main source not to have given him that but on the arm. All right Ronaldo himself has actually come out on social media questioning you know Messi's you know deserving of this particular award, even Messi himself had said that he feels Lewandowski was robbed of this particular ball under, does all of that count? Yeah but unfortunately for both of you and Ronaldo they were not part of the process of selection and voting and people were given to those making the votes and the decision making to take their decision and cast their votes on us and fans, we all feel Lewandowski is closer to winning the Ballon d'Or but we should know that in football your antecedent at times plays 45 percent of whatever award will be given to you and giving up to Messi giving up to Ronaldo these are the kings in terms of football in the world and I feel the voting process was sort of affected by the profile of these players, the personality of the players and you see even normally in a workplace before people that might judge his situation at any point in time. So Messi, Ronaldo if people really wanted to to give us another set of players in terms of development they should have left Ronaldo and Messi. If that had happened Lewandowski would have picked up. Okay some other persons have also argued that probably because you know he won some other awards and that would be the reason why he actually you know took that one home again okay but apart from that let's move away from Messi apart from Robert Lewandowski which other person do you think would have been you know close to taking that award? Looking at where people are trying to tell us they in their sense they want to develop players and they want to show the world a new star, the young player is one of the team also with the assistant of Neyman Address. I felt that also the impact would have been that this is the new generation of football, this is where football belongs to now. Messi has got into their world records seven times at his at intervals and shared between him and Ronaldo. I strongly my opinion when the ball came up is that the both of them would have allowed or if I would have created. All right thank you Moses thanks for your thoughts. I'm afraid that's as much as we can take on this particular discourse we have been speaking with Moses Igbo football coach and he has joined us to talk about who deserves the Ballon d'Or was it actually Messi after all thank you so much Messi or Moses rather. All right Messi why are you in my mouth? I'm not I think I'm thinking that you're thinking about you know Messi himself all right that's so much we can actually take thank you so much for being part of the conversation it has been an amazing ride from Monday up until now we hope to return Monday next week in case you missed out on any part of the conversation that's all right to follow us on Facebook and Instagram we're at Plus TV Africa and a YouTube is a Plus TV Africa lifestyle I am Messi football you'll have a great Friday. 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