Iker Casillas, the former goalkeeper of the Spanish team, posted a cryptic tweet in which protested against football-related awards, a few hours after the ceremony The bestwhere Argentina won a poker trophy.
Lionel Messi, voted the best in the world; Emiliano Martínez, best goalkeeper; Lionel Scaloni, best coach; and the flood of Argentines who chanted “Muchachos” throughout the month in Qatar also won the award for the best fans of the year.
Casillas, world champion with Spain in 2010, retired from football in 2020. Meanwhile, he had a decade of spicy crosses with Lionel Messi when he defended goal for Real Madrid. The Argentine scored 17 goals in all those clashes, in several leaving him lost on the ground.
“There are things I don’t understand about these football awards…” Casillas wrote on his Twitter account, where he has nearly 10 million followers. Within minutes, responses were filled with Argentines asking him “to stop crying.”
Is that although Casillas did not specify what bothered him about The Best ceremony, the goalkeeper has a history of tantrums against award ceremonies. Including some against Messi.
In 2021, for example, the goalkeeper he had complained when Messi received his seventh Ballon d’Or. “It’s getting harder and harder for me to believe in this soccer awards thing. For me, Messi is one of the top 5 players in all of history, but you have to start knowing how to rank who is the most outstanding after one season. No It is so fucking hard! Others make it hard,” she wrote at the time.
It was when Lionel won the shortlist against Robert Lewandowski, in a delivery marred by the pandemic that interrupted the season. The Pole was a candidate to win the award in 2020, which was interrupted by Covid-19.
In 2019, when Messi had won his first prize The best, he had also protested the rules. “Van Dijk was the best player for UEFA. Messi was the best for FIFA. Imagine: Cristiano (deserving of it for this) wins the Golden Ball, it seems to me that the guidelines we follow in football to give awards do not make much sense, he did not say.
Last year he also complained when Thibaut Courtois wasn’t shortlisted for the Ball. “This is the BEST GOALKEEPER in the WORLD. I’m standing still without understanding what those who choose this award are based on”he wrote.
Casillas, with a great trajectory on goal, he has never been nominated for any individual award. It has been since FIFA implemented the award The best for the best archer, his golden years had already passed. At that time, Keylor Navas had already ousted him from the three sticks at Merengue and was playing for Porto. Yes, he was the FIFA Ideal 11 goalkeeper between 2008 and 2012. He didn’t complain there.
Since his sporting retirement, Casillas has remained connected to the world of football. Last year he was one of the commentators on Spanish television during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. There, some of his speeches went viral in which it was made clear that he was not amused by Messi continuing to move forward.
Outside of football, in November of last year Casillas was named by TikTok Spain as one of the best public figures. This also did not win.
Source: Clarin
