The Argentine star wants to fight for the eighth award of his career.
Messi.
Lionel Messi is the best player on planet Earth and for many he is the greatest of all time. It is not for nothing that he is fighting for the Ballon d’Or against the stars of the new generation such as Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappé. In that sense, the Argentine star has a mark that was known in the last few hours that demonstrates all his superiority against the rest of the players of recent decades. There is growing evidence that he deserves to win football’s highest individual award.
The Argentine player has just shined in the 2022 Qatar World Cup, being the great figure of the Albiceleste team. This, of course, he couldn’t do in Norway, who didn’t even qualify, while the Frenchman was the top scorer in the World Cup but it wasn’t enough. Furthermore, he did not have a good performance at PSG or in individual numbers where he was surpassed. Anyway, we have to see what happens on October 30.
In addition to his great performance in the World Cup from the result itself, what Messi generated with the ball at his feet was simply overwhelming and very different from what other footballers around the world did in the 2022 – 2023 season. Agree According to some international media, the votes would have given the 36-year-old world champion the winner. In this way he would reach the eighth of his career, something that will surely be very difficult to achieve in the rest of history
The statistic that shows that Messi is superior to everyone
That Lionel Messi is the best in the world is not a story, but rather the statistics themselves put him above all the rest of the players of recent times. The thing is that he has been practically in the elite of world football for two decades and he has not had a single most important title left without winning. In the last few hours, the Opta site showed the players with the most successful dribbles in the last 17 years and Leo is at the top with 2,358, while the next in the table is Eden Hazard with 1,285. Meanwhile, Cristiano Ronaldo (6th) It has only 937.