Barcelona’s Barcelona player Lionel Messi won the Konex Prize yesterday, which is awarded to the best Argentine athlete of the decade, surpassing stars such as football player Juan Roman Riquelme, tennis player Juan Martin del Potro, and Diego Simeone, coach of Atletico Madrid.
Messi, 33, added to his trophy wardrobe this award, which he received in appreciation of his sports career during the last 10 years, during which he won the Golden Ball award five times, the Golden Shoe award five times, and a number of other achievements.
Argentine sporting legends were crowned with this award, such as: the late soccer player Diego Armando Maradona in the 1990s, tennis player Gabriela Sabatini in 2000, and basketball player Emmanuel Ginobili.
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