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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Chelsea manager, Thomas Tuchel, has brutally dismissed five members of his squad nominated for this year\u2019s Ballon D\u2019Or.<\/p>\n

Captain Cesar Azpilicueta, N\u2019Golo Kante, Jorginho, Mason Mount and Romelu Lukaku all made the 30-man shortlist.<\/p>\n

Although Tuchel said he is \u201csuper happy\u201d for them, he made it clear he does not care for individual awards.<\/p>\n

Ahead of their Premier League at Brentford on Saturday, Tuchel was asked about his players receiving a nomination for this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you believe me if I tell you that I don\u2019t even know who it is on the list?<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not into these single, individual awards. I believe this is a team effort. I believe what we did last season, for these players on the list, was a team effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were more than just single players, we were a team, a group of friends almost. It felt like it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were a strong club and the guys were a strong team in every single game,\u201d Tuchel said.<\/p>\n

Real Madrid vs Chelsea: Tuchel explains why he substituted Azpilicueta, Pulic, Werner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Chelsea manager, Thomas Tuchel, has brutally dismissed five members of his squad nominated for this year\u2019s Ballon D\u2019Or. Captain Cesar Azpilicueta, N\u2019Golo Kante, Jorginho, Mason Mount and Romelu Lukaku all made the 30-man shortlist. Although Tuchel said he is \u201csuper happy\u201d for them, he made it clear he does not care for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":51905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18,26],"tags":[1570,2140,4480,485,254,2986],"class_list":["post-51906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-ballon-dor-2021","tag-chelsea","tag-nigeria","tag-tuchel"],"yoast_head":"\nBallon D\u2019Or 2021: I\u2019m not interested in five Chelsea players nominated \u2013 Tuchel - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chelsea manager, Thomas Tuchel, has brutally dismissed five members of his squad nominated for this year\u2019s Ballon D\u2019Or. ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/ballon-dor-2021-im-not-interested-in-five-chelsea-players-nominated-tuchel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ballon D\u2019Or 2021: I\u2019m not interested in five Chelsea players nominated \u2013 Tuchel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chelsea manager, Thomas Tuchel, has brutally dismissed five members of his squad nominated for this year\u2019s Ballon D\u2019Or. ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/ballon-dor-2021-im-not-interested-in-five-chelsea-players-nominated-tuchel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-16T16:36:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/img-616af8b5c7a4b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1320\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"744\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/ballon-dor-2021-im-not-interested-in-five-chelsea-players-nominated-tuchel#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/ballon-dor-2021-im-not-interested-in-five-chelsea-players-nominated-tuchel\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ballon D\u2019Or 2021: I\u2019m not interested in five Chelsea players nominated \u2013 Tuchel\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-16T16:36:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/ballon-dor-2021-im-not-interested-in-five-chelsea-players-nominated-tuchel\"},\"wordCount\":200,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/ballon-dor-2021-im-not-interested-in-five-chelsea-players-nominated-tuchel#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/img-616af8b5c7a4b.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Ballon d'Or 2021\",\"chelsea\",\"Nigeria\",\"Tuchel\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/ballon-dor-2021-im-not-interested-in-five-chelsea-players-nominated-tuchel#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/ballon-dor-2021-im-not-interested-in-five-chelsea-players-nominated-tuchel\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/ballon-dor-2021-im-not-interested-in-five-chelsea-players-nominated-tuchel\",\"name\":\"Ballon D\u2019Or 2021: I\u2019m not interested in five Chelsea players nominated \u2013 Tuchel - 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