Messi scores his second The Best and takes revenge for the Ballon d’Or

Argentina’s Leo Messi was this Monday chosen as the best player of the FIFA season, including the World Cup in Qatar, five months after he was not even on the list of 30 candidates for the Ballon d’Or.

The man from Rosario beat the other two finalists, France’s Karim Benzema, winner of the Ballon d’Or, and Kylian Mbappé, top scorer at last year’s World Cup.

Messi, chosen in Qatar as the best player of the World Cup, where he finished as the second scorer with 7 goals, to which he also added three assists, at the age of 35 adds a new personal award, the second The Best, after one achieved in 2009, the award in that who was a finalist in 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2021.

ideal eleven

Argentina’s Lionel Messi, France’s Karim Benzema and Kylian Mbappé and Norway’s Erling Haaland appear in the FIFA 2022 ideal eleven, it was revealed this Monday at The Best gala in Paris.

In a very offensive line-up, these four strikers, three of whom are competing for the best player award, share eleven with players like Brazilian Casemiro, Croatian Luka Modric or Moroccan Achraf Hakimi.

The goalkeeper of Real Madrid, Belgian Thibaut Courtois, was selected, but he did not win the award for the best goal, and it went to Argentinean Emiliano “Dib” Martínez.

In defense, along with Hakimi, there is only one middle back, Liverpool’s Dutch Virgil van Dijk and Bayern Munich’s Portuguese Joao Cancelo. The Belgian from Manchester City, Kevin de Bruyne, completes the eleven.

The Spaniard Alexia Putellas won The Best for the best player in 2022

FC Barcelona’s Spanish midfielder Alexia Putellas won the FIFA The Best award for the best player of 2022 this Monday, repeating the recognition she already received last season.

The Catalan, also a Ballon d’Or winner, who won the triple title in Spain last year and was the European runner-up with Barça, received the final vote for the award over English striker Beth Mead (Arsenal), champion with her homeland. Eurocopa and tournament MVP, and American forward Alex Morgan, currently in the San Diego Wave of the NWSL of his country.

Eleven feminine ideals

Spain’s Mapi León and Alexia Putellas were included in FIFA’s ideal women’s eleven, announced at The Best awards gala.

The ideal eleven chosen by the voters also includes the British Beth Mead, the American Alex Morgan and the Chilean goalkeeper Christiane Endler.

Endler; Lucy Bronze, Mapi Leon, Leah Williamson, Wendie Renard; Alexia Putellas; Keira Walsh, Lena Oberdorf; Alex Morgan, Sam Kerr and Beth Mead make up the ideal team recognized this Monday.