Vivianne Miedema has slammed the Ballon d’Or for not treating girls’s soccer pretty and focusing extra on the boys’s sport.
On the 2022 Ballon d’Or ceremony, seven awards have been handed out, however solely one in every of them – the Ballon d’Or Feminin – is an award devoted to girls’s soccer.
The opposite six gongs are all awards devoted to the boys’s sport, and the Arsenal star says it is time to make the ceremony a extra equal occasion.
Vivianne Miedema says their is an absence of appreciation for the ladies’s sport by the Ballon d’Or
Miedema attended the Ballon d’Or ceremony with team-mate and companion Beth Mead
‘I did not really feel appreciated as a lady footballer there,’ she informed the BBC’s Behind the Targets podcast.
‘In the event that they need to have girls concerned, they must do it differently.
‘They’d 5 – 6 completely different awards for the boys’s sport whereas the ladies solely have one. In the event that they need to make it equal, they’ve to present the identical awards to males’s and ladies’s soccer.’
In addition to the principle Ballon d’Or award, which this 12 months was received by Karim Benzema, there may be additionally the Kopa Trophy for greatest younger male participant, the Yashin trophy awarded to greatest male goalkeeper and the Gerd Muller award for prime male goal-scorer.
Spanish star Alexia Putellas received the 2022 Ballon d’Or Feminin however was the one feminine winner
Whereas the membership of the 12 months is unfold throughout each the boys’s and ladies’s sport. The Socrates Award, a extra humanitarian prize, was additionally added this 12 months and received by Senegal star Sadio Mane.
Nevertheless, none of those have been replicated solely for the ladies’s sport. Leaving simply Alexia Putellas as the one feminine winner on the 2022 ceremony.
The Barcelona ace scooped the Ballon d’Or Feminin for the second successive season, pipping England ace Beth Mead, who completed second.
The 2 Arsenal stars are presently in a relationship and have posted photographs collectively on-line
Mead is presently in a relationship with Miedema, and so they attended the awards ceremony collectively, but an image caption the next day described the pair as Miedema and ‘visitor’.
The Dutch ahead says that her and Mead laughed off the gaffe, but it surely’s one other instance of how the ladies’s sport can nonetheless be disrespected.
Miedema added: ‘Waking up the following morning and that image pops up, that states the difficulty we had the night time earlier than.
‘We have the quantity two from that 12 months, who ought to arguably have been primary, turning as much as the occasion as ‘my visitor’. That might clearly by no means occur if Messi and Neymar had been strolling subsequent to one another.
Miedema is each the WSL’s report goal-scorer and the Netherlands highest-ever purpose getter
‘We clearly joke about it, however that exhibits there are such a lot of enhancements to be made, it must be organised so significantly better.’
The 26-year-old just lately returned to the Arsenal aspect following a request time frame off, the place she additionally missed two worldwide friendlies for the Netherlands.
She says that gamers should not be afraid to ask for time to recharge their batteries in the event that they assume it could profit their sport.
The Arsenal striker took a while off in November and stated that extra gamers ought to relaxation
‘We’re at all times anticipated to go, go, go,’ she stated.
‘Lots of gamers in all probability do not feel the liberty to say ‘OK, I do want a break’. I have been in a lucky place to ask for it, to really feel assured sufficient to ask for it, which trying again I ought to have finished manner earlier.
‘If it isn’t doable to ship what you might want to do at that second, please take a break or please work with somebody on it. Talk about it and do not feel ashamed. Simply take your time and it’ll come again at one level.’
Miedema is the WSL’s all-time report goal-scorer, with 74 objectives and has netted seven instances in 14 video games up to now this marketing campaign.
