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Messi beats Mbappe, Benzema to Best FIFA Men’s Player award

Argentina captain, Lionel Messi won this year’s Best FIFA Men’s Player award at a ceremony in Paris on Monday.

Messi beat Paris Saint-Germain team-mate Kylian Mbappe and Real Madrid captain, Karim Benzema, to the prize.

The 35-year-old won the 2022 World Cup with his country in December, finally getting to lift the only major honour he hasn’t won in his career.

“It’s amazing. It was a tremendous year and it is an honour for me to be here tonight and win this award,” Messi said.

It was Messi’s second FIFA The Best title, with his first coming in 2019. He has also won a record seven Ballon d’Or awards.

Other winners are;

Best FIFA Women’s Player: Alexia Putellas

Best Men’s XI: Thibaut Courtois; Achraf Hakimi, Joao Cancelo, Virgil van Dijk; Kevin De Bruyne, Luka Modric, Casemiro; Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, Karim Benzema, Erling Haaland

Best Women’s XI: Christiane Endler; Lucy Bronze, Maria Leon, Leah Williamson, Wendy Renard; Alexia Putellas, Keira Walsh, Lena Oberdorff; Alex Morgan, Sam Kerr, Beth Mead

FIFA Best Fans Award: Argentina’s fans

FIFA Fair Play Award: Luka Lochoshvili

Best Men’s Coach Award: Lionel Scaloni

Best Womens’s Coach Award: Sarina Wiegman

Puskas Award: Marcin Oleksy (Warta Poznan vs Stal Rzeszow – 6 November 2022)

Best Men’s Goalkeeper: Emiliano Martinez

Credit: Dailypost

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ALAO YUSUF
1 year ago

This isn’t surprising, Messi did it all, and was outstanding at the recent FIFA 2022 World Cup. He’s also not doing bad at the club level in Paris.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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