Lionel Messi received the the lads’s Participant of the Yr on the FIFA Greatest Awards on Monday evening for a report 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 select up this award as nicely.
The Argentina star put collectively one of many biggest 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 yr.
Liverpool duo Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah received a vote as a result of pair being captains of their international locations and it was Messi who topped their votes, with Man Metropolis duo Erling Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne making up their high three.
Mohamed Salah and Virgil Van Dijk have voted Lionel Messi because the FIFA finest participant of 2023.
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— All About Argentina ??? (@AlbicelesteTalk) January 15, 2024
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 biggest 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 facet and travelling to London would have meant dropping three or 4 days.
That is more likely to be the final we see Messi gathering these huge awards however with the World Cup winner, you by no means know.