Barcelona captain Lionel Messi has received his La Liga MVP award for 2017/18 season today.
Javier Tebas, President of La Liga, presented the award to Messi for being the best player in Spanish top division last season.
2017/18 was yet another fruitful season for the 31-year-old Argentinian, who scored 45 goals and made 18 assists in 54 appearances across all competitions.
Barcelona scored 99 goals in La Liga last season, with Messi scoring 34 and made 12 of them.
His massive contribution helped Barcelona win the La Liga and Copa del Rey titles last term as well.
Speaking at the ceremony, which is organized by Mundo Deportivo starting from this year, Messi says: "It is my pleasure to be here and it's a very nice recognition for what it means because of the importance of the league."
"It is a very equal league from the bottom to the top, each team is seperated by very few points. We will follow our dynamics and get victories to get more points so as to become champions."
"(As for Copa del Rey,) It's going to be hard. Sevilla - with very good players - have a 2-0 advantage over us, so we'll need the best form from us and the best players from us, because we want to go through."
chidesco1
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Congrats leo messi, your evergrowing trophy cabinet has just added another one. Simply the best there has ever been. Wish you a champions league and league and copa title this season and that copa America. GOAT
WasimRaz
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Leo Messi is thinking that "This is too Small Award"..
ReyMessi17
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Messi being interview after the ceremony:”I’m not surprised I won. It was easy.”
Nigeria3960373
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Leo Messi is thinking that "This is too Small Award"..
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It is not small award because cr7 and the balloondor winner Lukard Moldric were beaten by Messi for this award. Except you consider cr7 to be small.