Manchester City's Spanish midfielder Rodri won the first Ballon d'Or in Paris on October 28. Although it was thought that the Ballon d'Or was going to go to the Brazilian star Vinicius Jr. who played in Real Madrid. Brazil and Real fans were waiting for the Ballon d'Or with the same expectations. In the end, though, it didn't.

Why did Vinny miss the Ballon d'Or? How much is his vote gap with Rodri. After a long time, it was revealed by the Ballon d'Or authorities. The difference in Vini's votes with Rodri is quite big. Rodri won the Ballon d'Or by beating Vinny by 41 votes.

"France Football" 2024 Ballon d'Or has released the vote count, it is known that Vinicius received 1129 votes. On the other hand, midfielder Rodri got 1170 votes.

Who votes for the Ballon d'Or? French media outlet 'Lequip' reported that 99 journalists from the top 100 countries in the FIFA rankings (Syria did not vote) selected their top 10 players from a short list of nominees to choose the winner of the boys' individual best award. In their list of top 10 players, the top player got 15 points, the second player got 12 points and the third player got 10 points. The fourth to tenth ranked players respectively got 8, 7, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 points respectively. That is, the total number of points is 6,633.

A maximum of 1485 points is possible if you are in the top 10 list of all journalists. There the number of points of Rodri and Viny says that the gap is quite close. Rodri topped the list of 49 journalists. Vinny topped the list of 35 journalists. Rodri did not find a place in the top 10 players list of journalists from Bahrain, Bolivia, Colombia, United Arab Emirates and Panama. Vini was dropped from the top 10 by journalists from El Salvador, Finland and Namibia.

But the interesting thing is that Vinicius has got the top position in the list of journalists in Brazil and Spain - this information was reported by the Brazilian press Globo Sport. Cruz tops the list of Argentine journalists, Rodri in second and Vinny in third.

Real and England midfielder Jude Bellingham topped the list of 5 people. Real's Dani Carvajal topped the list with 4 and the club's former midfielder Toni Kroos with 2.