Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy has questioned the reason in the back of his omission from the 30-guy Ballon d'Or shortlist, suggesting his nationality should have played a component.
The 29-year-vintage has not been nominated for the award no matter being a key member of the Chelsea again line because the Blues gained the 2020/21 Champions League, in addition to the Super Cup.
Having formerly said he does not experience the snub via arbiters France Football turned into an 'injustice', the Senegalese stopper has now puzzled whether or not his worldwide allegiance has something to do with why he turned into now not a few of the 30 names.
"You are all a bit surprised by way of this absence, that's something that pleases me," he instructed Canal Plus' Foot Club TV display.
"It's something that motivates me and pushes me to work. Honestly, I ask myself the query. If I had performed for France and had taken element within the Euros, might we have this debate and this mirrored image?"
Mendy has been nominated for the Trophée Yachine - the award for the nice goalkeeper on the planet. He added that it wouldn't be "a consolation" to land that prize, and that he would be "proud" to win it.
Speaking to Canal Plus about his Ballon d'Or snub in October, Mendy had stated: "Do I suppose it’s an injustice? No, I wouldn’t use that phrase."
"It’s some thing that motivates me to go forward, to work and be performant at club stage and with my u . S . A ., and as I said after the game with the national crew, it’s the journalists’ freedom of vote and expression, and they vote honourably and rigorously."
Mendy become signed as a relative unknown for Chelsea through Frank Lampard in 2020 as he looked to offer opposition for the suffering Kepa Arrizabalaga. However, he has long gone on to come to be one of the best shot-stoppers in Europe, preserving a clean sheet because the Blues landed European soccer's biggest prize against Man City lower back in May.
