Rodri 'fully deserves' Ballon d'Or - Simeone - video Dailymotion

Diego Simeone hails 2024 Ballon d'Or winner Rodri as 'nothing short of an incredible player'.

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00:00I am very respectful with people's decisions and in this case

00:05everyone knows how to behave and why he does it and as for the award

00:12happy, very happy for Rodrigo, he deserves it, an incredible player, a player who has only been with us for a season here but

00:20he has left a very good record, we fought a lot for him to stay, he chose very well

00:26to go to City because as a result he has achieved

00:30many very good things and to surpass himself even better in his football and grow as a footballer and

00:39in that year that he has been, he has given us

00:41many things, so very happy for him, very deserved and above all to us that we were midfielders

00:49sometime, it is good to recognize that work that

00:52many times goes unnoticed

00:54but it is a big part of what a team can generate