Messi won his first BallonD’or- the top individual award in football in 2009. He has now won 12% of all BallonD’or trophies given out.
Lionel Messi, 2022 World Cup Winner won his 8th BallonD’or on 30th October. He is now the most decorated player in the history of football. Messi is the first MLS player to win this prestigious award. Messi’s performance regarding the World Cup where he Carried Argentina to the final providing 7 goals and 3 assists earned him Golden Ball and the BallonD’or.
Time is Infinity. Messi is Infinity. He has created an whole another level of legacy. It might be his last. The Greatest Footballer we had witnessed. This year’s Ballon d’Or awards, announced at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, cover performances from August 2022 to July 2023. They are determined by the votes of 100 soccer journalists from 100 countries.
Why Messi Win ?
First of all, he won the World Cup, say whatever you want about that competition, but it is the apex of football as we know it. It’s every player’s dream to one day win the World Cup with their national team and the fact that it comes just once every four years makes the stakes a lot higher. But not only did Messi go ahead to win it, he won it in the greatest way ever. He got into that tournament with an ache in his heart and pressure on his shoulders. He had lost a final before, so he knew firsthand how brutal the competition can be. Then guess what he goes on to lose the first game of the tournament. So the eight got more painful and the pressure definitely got a lot worse. But with all that pressure. Leonel Messi managed to captain Argentina to victory.
Scoring in every round of the competition, winning the Man of the Match award in five of the seven games he played in and ending the competition with the Golden Ball and the Silver Boots. He also broke a lot of records at that tournament. Most Man of the Match awards in World Cup history and in a single World Cup tournament. First player to win two World Cup Golden Balls. First player to provide at least one assist in five different World Cup. Tournai. First player in history to score in every round of a World Cup tournament. We could really go on and on with these records, but the point is clear. Messi won the 2022 Woke Up as the outright best player and that is definitely a huge deal.
The closest thing to messi’s 2022 World Cup campaign in recent history.
Is Renaldo 2 thousand and two World Cup campaign, and if Renaldo could win the BallonD’or that year despite having played just 800 and 36 minutes of club football in the preceding season, their Messi deserves to win the 2023 BallonD’or.
Renard played an equivalent of 9 four games in a whole season due to injury. He didn’t even participate in the World Cup qualifiers with Brazil, but because of his dazzling performances at the World Cup itself, he won the BallonD’or. That’s to show you how very highly the World Cup is rated for these awards and let’s not even act like Messi was absent on club level in the 22 and 23 season, he actually baled for PSG. Yeah, he didn’t manage to get past the round of 16 in the Champions League, but he won the league UN and Trophy de Champion and he wasn’t just a passenger in all of this. He had eight goal contributions in seven Champions League games and 32 goal contributions in 32 appearances in the league. For PSG, he finished as the player with the most assists in the league UNN and that unsurprisingly earned him a spot in the league UN Team of the Season. In fact, he was the highest rated player in the league that season, so one thing we’re not going to do is act like messy’s club performances were rubbish just because of an early champion’s league exit.
Messi’s award was announced by David Beckham, the co-owner of Messi’s current club Inter Miami. Messi dedicated his trophy to late Argentine forward Diego Maradona.
