Lionel Messi receives FIFA The Best 2023 award

Early this morning, January 16 (Vietnam time) in London (UK), the World Football Federation (FIFA) held The Best 2023 awards ceremony to honor the best individuals and teams in world football in the past year. In the most notable category, "Best Male Player of the Year", the 3 names in the final nomination list were Haaland, Messi and Mbappe. As a result, Messi surpassed his 2 juniors to win.

Messi received the FIFA The Best award for the third time

The FIFA The Best 2023 award considers the achievements of the best player in the period from December 19, 2022 to August 20, 2023. During that time, Messi scored 26 goals, assisted 12 times, won the Ligue 1 championship with PSG, then continued to raise the League Cup trophy with Inter Miami. In terms of individual awards, Messi won the King of assists in Ligue 1 last season and was the best player in the North - Central American Federation Cup.

Messi's win at FIFA The Best 2023 created a wave of controversy when most predicted that Erling Haaland of Man City would be honored, but surprisingly, the award continued to belong to Messi. This controversy arose because Messi's World Cup 2022 achievement was not considered for 2023 because it was used to consider The Best 2022 award and Messi won this award after leading the Argentina captain to glory in Qatar.

Meanwhile, Erling Haaland had a very successful year as a key factor in helping Man City win the historic treble of Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup, then continued to win the European Super Cup. The Norwegian striker also conquered a series of individual awards including the European Golden Boot, Premier League Top Scorer, Best Player and Best Young Player of the Premier League.

According to the announced results, Messi and Haaland had the same total score of 48, but the Argentine striker won thanks to more votes from the captains of the men's teams, according to the regulations in Article 12 of the voting rules previously issued by FIFA. Specifically, Messi won 13 points from the votes voted by the captains of the national teams, while Haaland got 11 points.

In other notable categories, the best male coach award went to Pep Guardiola, the best female player award went to Barca midfielder Aitana Bonmati, while Sarina Wiegman was the female coach honored.

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