Jude Bellingham, Alex Balde and Taylor Swift
What is the beef between Taylor Swift and Alex Balde? How is Jude Bellingham linked to this beef? Learn all there is to know.
Social media often links the unlikeliest people from very different industries to each other, often pitting them against each other to achieve some purpose. The latest instance of unlikely matchmaking on social media has been pop singer and performer Taylor Swift and FC Barcelona defender Alejandro, or Alex Balde.
Barcelona star Alejandro Balde has revealed that he does not like Taylor Swift’s music. The comment has resulted in the singer’s fans turning their attention to the Golden Boy poll and voting for Jude Bellingham, who’s now leading the race. In an interview released on Tuesday, Balde said that he’s not a fan of Swift, as does not like her music: “Do I like Taylor Swift? No, I don’t like her music.” While the comment may have been very innocuous, Taylor Swift fans did not take very well to it.
Balde’s confession that he doesn’t like Taylor Swift’s music hasn’t gone down well with the singer’s fans.
To get back at the Barcelona left back, they have reportedly started a movement to help Jude Bellingham beat the young Spaniard to the 2023 Golden Boy award. Barca Universal claims that Swift’s fans have created a social media movement to vote for Bellingham for the Golden Boy award. It comes after comments made by Balde regarding his dislike for the American songwriter’s music.
Spanish journalist Martin Manin claims that Balde was leading the race in the fan vote with Bellingham sitting on 30k votes. However, the Los Blancos wonderkid’s numbers skyrocketed in just seven minutes to 100k votes. Swifties are renowned for their loyalty to the American popstar and it appears they are prepared to go to war against Balde in the Golden Boy voting. Swift is also set to perform at Madrid’s refurbished Santiago Bernabeu next year making matters all the more worse for the Barcelona youngster.
Balde enjoyed a superb past season, breaking into Xavi’s first team, and has since made the left-back role his own. He played 44 times across competitions last season, scoring one goal and providing seven assists. He was part of a Barcelona side that won the La Liga title for the first time since 2019.
The Golden Boy is an award that is given by renowned sports journalists to a young male footballer playing in Europe perceived to have been the most impressive during a calendar year (two halves to two separate seasons). All nominees must be under the age of 21 and play in a European nation’s top tier footballing league.
While the first recipient of the award was Rafael van der Vaart, the 2022 edition was won by Barcelona’s Gavi. Apart from the main award, an additional one, Golden Boy Web, is decided by online users. While Bellingham is set to go up against Balde from the Catalan outfit for the award, he could have easily signed for Barcelona instead of their eternal rivals.
Jude Bellingham may have been on the opposite side of the El Clasico rivalry if Barcelona had their way four or five years ago.
Former Barca scout Bojan Krkic has claimed that the Catalan giants were interested in signing the Madrid new boy before he joined Dortmund in 2020. He told Spanish outlet Que t’hi Jugues: “I arranged to meet with Bellingham’s father in London, who was part of the British secret police, but he never showed up. I know he did it to a lot of people.”
Bojan went on to explain that Bellingham’s father wasn’t enthusiastic about the squad the Blaugrana had at the time. He also alluded to the fact they’d signed a youngster from one of Birmingham City’s rivals: “His excuse to us was that we had already signed another English youngster from Aston Villa or West Brom and he said: ‘My son won’t sign for Barcelona. He can’t play with a side with such limited quality.”
Bellingham instead joined Borussia Dortmund from Birmingham in 2020 for €30.1 million with the EFL Championship outfit retiring his number 22 shirt. Many questioned that decision given he was at such a young age and hadn’t made his mark in the spot. However, the England international has gone on to shine both at Signal Iduna Park and now at the Bernabeu. It’s why he is one of the favorites to win the Golden Boy award. He became the youngest captain in Bundesliga history and the youngest skipper to score in the UEFA Champions League last season.
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