Lionel Messi received the the lads’s Participant of the Yr on the FIFA Finest Awards on Monday evening for a file eighth time and Liverpool duo Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah had the World Cup winner high of their lists.
The winner is picked by gamers, managers, the media and followers and it was clear that the 2023 Ballon d’Or winner was going to choose up this award as properly.
The Argentina star put collectively one of many best World Cup campaigns on the finish of 2022 to assist his nation to a 3rd FIFA World Cup and that impressed the voters, alongside his achievements with PSG and Inter Miami final 12 months.
Liverpool duo Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah bought a vote as a result of pair being captains of their nations and it was Messi who topped their votes, with Man Metropolis duo Erling Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne making up their high three.
Van Dijk confronted Messi on the World Cup and was a first-hand witness of the Argentina star’s greatness as he performed one of many best passes of his profession to open the scoring within the quarter-final conflict with the Netherlands.
Messi wasn’t current on the award ceremony because the Inter Miami star has simply began pre-season coaching with the MLS aspect and travelling to London would have meant shedding three or 4 days.
That is prone to be the final we see Messi accumulating these massive awards however with the World Cup winner, you by no means know.