Lionel Messi has as soon as once more been topped ‘The Greatest’ in soccer after being introduced because the winner of the FIFA greatest males’s participant award at The Greatest FIFA Soccer Awards held in London on Monday.
Messi gained the trophy after clinching the Ligue 1 title with PSG and the Leagues Cup with Inter Miami. However it was actually an surprising award for the 36-year-old, who was not current to gather it, as Haaland was the clear favourite.
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The Manchester Metropolis striker, who’s at present injured, was the favourite to land the ‘The Greatest’ after a unprecedented yr, having taken the European Golden Boot with a file 36 objectives within the Premier League and successful the treble as Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup winner.
He was additionally named Participant of the 12 months within the Premier League 22-23, high scorer of the Champions League with 12 objectives and winner of the UEFA Tremendous Cup towards Sevilla.
It’s the third time the Argentinian famous person has gained ‘The Greatest’ with solely 4 male gamers capable of name themselves a winner. Cristiano Ronaldo has performed it twice, together with Robert Lewandowski and Luka Modric, to hitch the hat-trick hero Messi.
Full record of FIFA Greatest award winners
There was at the least one Metropolis winner on the evening, as Pep Guardiola collected the Greatest Males’s Coach for successful the treble for the second time in his profession.
Barcelona’s Aitana Bonmati was topped the Greatest within the ladies’s sport after main Spain to Ladies’s World Cup glory in Australia and New Zealand final yr. England’s Sarina Wiegman was named the Greatest Ladies’s Coach after main the Lionesses to the ultimate earlier than their slim defeat by the hands of La Roja.
Manchester Metropolis’s Ederson was named the most effective males’s goalkeeper, whereas England’s Mary Earps took residence the honors for greatest ladies’s goalkeeper.
The Puskas Award for greatest purpose went to Guilherme Madruga of Botafogo for his bicycle kick, beating out Brighton’s Julio Enciso and Sporting Lisbon’s Nuno Santos.
How the voting system works
First, a bunch of FIFA consultants and exterior stakeholders named a collection of candidates by which every member selected their three favourite gamers, coaches and goalkeepers for ‘The Greatest’. Then it moved onto a second section, by which 4 stakeholders are concerned with 25 per cent every.
The captains and coaches of the world’s 211 nationwide crew groups, a journalist from every FIFA member nation and followers by a vote on the FIFA web site.
On this event, they selected Messi – and Haaland could also be feeling laborious performed by after his unforgettable yr.
