During the process of voting for The Best 2023 award, FIFA initially selected 12 players, then eliminated 9, leaving the remaining 3 best players.
Lionel Messi (Inter Miami), Erling Haaland (Man City) and Kylian Mbappe (PSG) finally surpassed 9 candidates including Julian Alvarez, Marcelo Brozovic, Kevin De Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan, Rodri, Bernardo Silva, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Victor Osimhen and Declan Rice.
According to voting criteria, FIFA The Best 2023 calculates achievements from December 19, 2022 to August 20, 2023.
Explaining the choice of star Lionel Messi in this list, FIFA emphasized: “Coming back after the 2022 World Cup, where Messi fascinated the global audience at the age of 36, he and PSG club won the Ligue 1 championship. This is the second time he won this title while competing in France.
Messi is also named in the outstanding Ligue 1 team and tops the list of goal assists in the tournament.
The biggest and latest challenge for Messi’s career appeared in July 2023, when he scored more than 100 goals for Argentina and was the player with the most goals of all time in the top 5 tournaments in Europe. Europe.
Messi crossed the Atlantic to join Inter Miami Club, a transfer that was welcomed by the enthusiasm of fans across North America.
He also created the best football matches of all time, helping audiences everywhere passionately follow his great runs even though he was 36 years old.”
As for Haaland, this striker is the top candidate for the FIFA The Best 2023 award thanks to his historic “treble” with Man City (Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup).