Lionel Messi efficiently defended his FIFA Greatest Males’s Participant Award title in London on Monday by ending forward of Erling Haaland of Manchester Metropolis and Kylian Mbappe of Paris Saint-Germain.
The timeframe for the award was arrange between Dec. 19, 2022 and Aug. 20, 2023. It is value noting that Messi gained the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar a day earlier than the timeline for the 2023 awards opened. Voters for the awards consists of journalists, followers, nationwide group captains and managers.
The Argentina worldwide gained the 2022 version after main his nation to the FIFA World Cup title in Qatar that very same yr however his PSG and Inter Miami type — Ligue 1 and Leagues Cup — is what made a shock 2023 win forward of the Norwegian aim machine who helped to fireside Pep Guardiola’s dominant aspect to UEFA Champions League success to finish the treble.
Messi, Haaland and Mbappe had been all absent so there was by no means going to be an emotional acceptance speech onstage on the Eventim Apollo in London from the winner. “I turned up,” joked former Barcelona teammate and occasion host Thierry Henry of the legendary Argentinian’s absence. Messi has solely simply linked again up along with his Miami teammates within the U.S. forward of a preseason tour to arrange for the 2024 Main League Soccer marketing campaign.
That makes it a Ballon d’Or and FIFA Greatest double for Messi, who’s now anticipated at hand over the mantle to Haaland and Mbappe to choose up when the South American and Cristiano Ronaldo finally cease successful these awards. Elsewhere, unsurprisingly, Barcelona and Spain’s Aitana Bonmati additionally made it a Ballon d’Or and FIFA Greatest double by ending forward of Jenni Hermoso and Linda Caicedo.
The winners from every class:
Greatest Males’s Participant
- PSG, Inter Miami and Argentina’s Lionel Messi.
Greatest Girls’s Participant
- Barcelona and Spain’s Aitana Bonmati.
Greatest Males’s Goalkeeper
- Manchester Metropolis and Brazil’s Ederson.
Greatest Girls’s Goalkeeper
- Manchester United and England’s Mary Earps.
FIFPro Males’s World XI
- Thibaut Courtois; John Stones, Ruben Dias, Kyle Walker; Bernardo Silva, Jude Bellingham, Kevin De Bruyne; Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappe, Lionel Messi, Vinicius Jr.
FIFPro Girls’s World XI
- Mary Earps; Alex Greenwood, Lucy Bronze, Olga Carmona; Aitana Bonmati, Ella Toone, Keira Walsh; Alex Morgan, Alessia Russo, Lauren James, Samantha Kerr.
Greatest Males’s Coach
- Manchester Metropolis’s Pep Guardiola.
Greatest Girls’s Coach
- England’s Sarina Wiegman.
Puskas Award
- Botafogo SP’s Guilherme Madruga vs. Novorizontino.
Marta Award
- Launched this yr to be awarded for the most effective aim scored in ladies’s soccer that yr in honor of the legendary Brazilian.
FIFA Truthful Play Award
- Brazil males’s nationwide group.
FIFA Fan Award
- Hugo Daniel Iniguez (Colon fan from Argentina).
