Lionel Messi beat Erling Haaland for the Ballon d’Or and the FIFA “The Best” award. Decisions that made waves in the football world. Cristiano Ronaldo criticizes.
Haaland had no chance against Messi
It was quite a surprise: Although Erling Haaland won all the titles with Manchester City last season and scored goals like a conveyor belt, he had to hand over the FIFA “The Best” award to Lionel Messi. Messi just became French champions with Paris Saint-Germain, but failed in the round of 16 of the Champions League against FC Bayern. Since summer 2023 he has been playing outside Europe at Inter Miami in the USA. Nevertheless, it was obviously enough to become a world footballer ahead of Haaland.
“The numbers don’t lie”
Sea Cristiano Ronaldo, who was awarded “The Best” three times and the Ballon d’Or five times, both awards would “lose credibility”. The 38-year-old says in an interview with the Portuguese newspaper Record: “It doesn’t mean that Messi didn’t deserve it, or Haaland or even Mbappe. But the numbers are known and the numbers don’t lie. You have to take the whole season into account.” And the numbers would have suggested that the most recent award would have produced a different winner. When it comes to Messi, it was assumed that the 2022 World Cup title would be particularly important, but that was more than a year ago now.
2024-01-22 06:16:20
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