Salah: My Ballon d'Or result shocked me, some countries are far from football

"It [finishing 7th in the 2021 Ballon d'Or] shocked me, but there’s nothing I can say. No one in the world expected that I would be seventh, but that's what happened," Mohamed Salah has told Egyptian outlet DMC.

"I do not feel the conspiracy theory, but there may be inaccurate choices, and there are many countries which aren't popular with football knowledge and so far from it. I do not know what their choices are based on, but I do not believe in the conspiracy theory.

"I don't have the feeling that there is anything personal against me specifically in the FIFA choices, but this is the reality we are dealing with," the Egyptian concluded.

Mohamed Salah even finished behind Cristiano Ronaldo in the final vote, although the Portuguese had quite an average 2021.

The vote results showed clearly that some journalists cast their votes against any logic.

As a reminder, Lionel Messi won the cherished prize ahead of Robert Lewandowski and Jorginho.

Source: DMC via Goal