OFFICIAL: Lionel Messi is The Best FIFA Men's Player. 🏅
Lionel Messi has been named as The Best FIFA Men’s Player of the Year, beating the likes of Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappe to win the prestigious award.
🚨 Lionel Messi has just won his FIFA The Best Player award! 🏆
The two players were tied on points so the final decision went to national team captain votes as all four home nation skippers.
The 2023 award recognised the most exceptional performer between December 19, 2022 and August 20, 2023.
Performance at the 2022 World Cup was only considered for the previous year's award - which was won by Messi after captaining Argentina to glory in Qatar.
The 36-year-old clinched the Ligue 1 title with Paris Saint-Germain in 2023 before moving to Major League Soccer team Inter Miami, where he won the 2023 Leagues Cup - a competition between MLS and Mexico's Liga MX sides - scoring 10 goals.
Messi beat Haaland to the award despite the Norwegian winning the treble at Man City as he scored 30 goals in all competitions in the period after the World Cup and before August 20, 2023.
PSG forward Kylian Mbappe finished third in the voting with none of the three finalists in attendance at the awards ceremony in London.
The winners of The Best FIFA Football Awards 2023:
The Best FIFA Women’s Player: Aitana Bonmati (Spain/Barcelona)
The Best FIFA Men’s Player: Lionel Messi (Argentina/Inter Miami)
The Best FIFA Women’s Goalkeeper: Mary Earps (England/Manchester United)
The Best FIFA Men’s Goalkeeper: Ederson (Brazil/Manchester City)
The Best FIFA Women’s Coach: Sarina Wiegman (England women’s national team)
The Best FIFA Men’s Coach: Pep Guardiola (Manchester City)
The FIFA Puskas Award: Guilherme Madruga (Botafogo)
The FIFA Fair Play Award: Brazil men’s national team (anti-racism)
The FIFA Fan Award: Hugo Daniel ‘Toto’ Iniguez & son (Colon de Santa Fe)
Shimbirkamadaw
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CONGRATS LIONEL MESSI THE GREATEST PLAYER OF ALL TIME
Hēlïøs
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FIFA: We wanted to give Ronaldo the award until it was time to spell his club, that's when we decided to give Messi
Cihabcely
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Just give Messi all football awards, he'll soon win African footballer of the year.
Billypharacy
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If I was I traffic light, I will always on red just to see Messi on a football pitch. Greatest for a reason
Penaltea
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How the hell has he won it 🤣 World Cup isn’t even counted
Joshmmk
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FootballChief
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No comment. If I comment I'm in FIFA trouble
Doxmang
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🚨 Big Players who has Voted Lionel Messi over Erling Haaland for Fifa the best Award. A THREAD 👇I KNOW MY REAL GOAT 🐐 KING 👑 M10.
MESSIoverPENALDO
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Messi to his haters
danailsty
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Whom ever decide that must be gay either that or Messi is sharing something with him because I know Messi is good but haven’t done anything in 2023 accepting that trophy just shows what kind of person he is and shows that fifa and I fanti o are nothing but garbage
PERLYblaq
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i can now sleep in peace
Omo_Ologo
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baba halland is an opportunies without KDB I don't think halland would have up to 20 goals last season.. what did mbappe do that he is in your list if not for the world cup.. then u come and say salah someone who cannot score a penalty.. Kane is a great striker but where did thier team end up last season what achievement did he bring .. baba messi deserves every bit of that award
lol.... he had 52 goals, abeg how many assist kdb get....? at least he should av like 35 assist since he's the one feeding him..... Mbappe was ligue 1 best player nd top scorer and he's currently topping it with 19goals..... nd he did nothing.... Kate had a great season with 30epl goals, and he's currently on 23 goals, so bcos he's trophyless, he doesn't deserve a shout.... remember it's individual award based on the performance in the year in review, not ur capabilities... Salah had 19 goals and 12 assist in epl last season and currently has 14 goals and 8 assist.. you're now talking shit about a penalty miss in a match that he even scored 2 goals.... Messi is better than all of the above players, but the last season, they performed better than him... Bellingham was bundesliga best player last season at 20 and is currently topping la liga goals... remember, the award is a yearly award.... u mean Messi deserves it for playing in mls or what criteria..... if we're talking capabilities... only few can sit with Messi nd none of the above is there, but we're talking 2023 performance....
Hipbcdmrt
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Let's gather here and congratulate the Goat 🐐 of all football ⚽. Goat Lionel Messi
Popilnopz
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What da fk did he do to deserve it. .. Absolute farce.
yutcklpstu
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FIFA and fraud are like 1 and 2. What did Messi achieve in 2023?
aliabrian
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What did Messi really do in 2023
Ibrahim626
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Simply THE BEST💫🐐
danailsty
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If Messi has any shame he will turn it down Halan won the shampoes League the wold clubs th pl af league score 50 goals
Tinho237
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Haaland's father reaction after Lionel Messi was announced as the winner of the FIFA The Best Award. What a corrupt system 🤮
viwadkuz
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Messi didn't deserve it because he won the award last year due world cup success in December 2022, then i don't know what he achieved to deserve it this year again?
Nam_So
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[19 December 2022 to 20 August 2023] 🇳🇴1. Haaland 35 Goals,5 Assists (8 Pens) 🏅EPL 🏅UCL 🏅FA Cup 🏅EPL MVP 🏅EPL Golden Boot 🏅UCL top scorer 🏅UEFA POTY 🇫🇷2. Mbappe 28 Goals,6 Assists (6 Pens) 🏅Ligue 1 Winner 🏅Ligue 1 MVP 🏅Ligue 1 golden boot 🏅Ligue 1 TOTY 🇦🇷3. Messi 24 Goals,8 Assists (0 Pens) 🏅Ligue 1 Winner 🏅Ligue 1 Foreign MVP 🏅Ligue 1 TOTY 🏅Lauerus Sportsman of the Year 🏅UCL Goal of the Season 🏅IFFHS Playmaker Award 🏅Became Europe's top scorer The nominations were perfectly made. There's no point of crying. FIFA analyst is correct.💯👌The winners of the best player awards were determined by a combination of votes from national team coaches, national team captains, journalists and supporters
Suah-K-FCB
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While Ronaldo busy scoring goals 🔥 Messi is busy winning prestigious Awards 😂💪
Holyiphe4336
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Do you understand the word FIFA ? Country to tournament are sponsored by FIFA. While Club sponsored by UEFA. Get ur facts right before commenting.
you are the fool here. he won it last year because of world cup. how can he won it again this year without doing nothing. this is insane 😡😡😡
Emmablaq0
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How the hell has he won it 🤣 World Cup isn’t even counted
Do you understand the word FIFA ? Country to tournament are sponsored by FIFA. While Club sponsored by UEFA. Get ur facts right before commenting.
Sezcdepr
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No comment. If I comment I'm in FIFA trouble
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10goals in Saudi Pro League is equivalent to 1 goal in league 1
Mccalljnr
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CONGRATS LIONEL MESSI THE GREATEST PLAYER OF ALL TIME
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🤣🤣🤣🤣 some people will have a heart attack today
Fiaaceknos
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No comment. If I comment I'm in FIFA trouble
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The is an award call golden boot for goals. Sergio Bousquet won best player of the UEFA nations league without scoring a single goal and mordric won the balon dor without scoring up to 12 goals😀😀
zuchiheizyZambia
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How the hell has he won it 🤣 World Cup isn’t even counted
you just jealous Messi is indeed a good play