Lionel Messi received The Best FIFA males’s participant prize for 2022 on Monday on the again of his World Cup triumph with Argentina and Spain’s Alexia Putellas retained the ladies’s award at a ceremony in Paris. Messi beat his Paris Saint-Germain teammate, and World Cup last rival, Kylian Mbappe to the boys’s gong with Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema the opposite contender to say the prize. It is the second time that Messi has received the honour inaugurated by FIFA in 2016 after soccer’s world governing physique cut up from Ballon d’Or organisers France Football.
The award, which is voted for by nationwide group coaches and captains, journalists and in addition followers, recognises a 12 months through which the previous Barcelona star topped his wonderful profession by main Argentina to victory on the World Cup.
Messi scored twice in an epic last in Doha as Argentina beat France on penalties regardless of Mbappe netting a hat-trick for Les Bleus in a exceptional 3-3 draw.
The 35-year-old, a seven-time Ballon d’Or winner, succeeds Robert Lewandowski on the FIFA honours record, whereas Putellas retained the ladies’s prize regardless of spending the second half of final 12 months out injured.
The 29-year-old beat England’s European Championship-winning striker Beth Mead and United States star Alex Morgan so as to add the FIFA crown to the Ballon d’Or, which she has additionally received two years operating.
Putellas is at present recovering from a critical knee harm suffered final July which noticed her miss the Euro in England with Spain.
Prior to that she had scored 11 objectives on Barcelona’s run to the Champions League last, which they misplaced to Lyon.
Full record of different award winners:
Argentina – FIFA Fan Award 2022
Luka Lochoshvili – FIFA Fair Play Award
Lionel Scaloni – FIFA Men’s Coach 2022
Sarina Wiegman – FIFA Women’s Coach 2022
Marcin Oleksy – The FIFA Puskas Award (finest aim)
Emiliano Martinez – FIFA Men’s Goalkeeper Award 2022
Mary Earps – FIFA Women’s Goalkeeper 2022
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