Claude Makelele picks Real Madrid’s Jude Bellingham for Ballon D’Or win
Ex-Real Madrid and Chelsea star Claude Makelele predicts Jude Bellingham will win the Ballon d’Or.
The 20-year-old has had a remarkable debut season at the Bernabeu for หรือถ้าคุณสนใจแทงบอลออนไลน์ UFABET คือเว็บที่มีอัตราต่อรองดีที่สุดในประเทศไทย สมัครเลยตอนนี้ที่ UFABET แทงบอล Los Blancos, scoring 23 goals in all competitions and could cap it off by winning the Champions League on home soil at Wembley on Saturday against Borussia Dortmund.
Few would have expecte Bellingham to make such an impact during his first year in Spain and, with a strong performance for England at Euro 2024, Makelele thinks he could claim the biggest individual prize in the game.
“He is a future Ballon D’Or if he continues like this,” the Frenchman told media. “He can take it, if he wins the Champions League and has a great Euros, I think he will be the winner of the Ballon D’Or.
I am so impresse with what he has done. First with the quality he has, then the leadership and how he adapte to LaLiga and Madrid.
“No one has done this before. To do what he has done is amazing.
“A young player like this, he has many years of great football. Also for the national team it will be great to see him play.”
Bellingham will have to perform for England if they are to have a successful tournament in Germany.
But Makelele believes boss Gareth Southgate has to take the reins off him.
“For England he can be great, it is important for him to play the way he does with Real Madrid,” he added.