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Lionel Messi Named Best FIFA Men’s Player for the 2022 Season

Lionel Messi was awarded the Best FIFA Men’s Player of 2022 at The Best FIFA Football Awards in Paris on Monday.

This was Messi’s third time winning this prestigious award, a remarkable feat after guiding his country to its historic third World Cup title at the 2022 event in Qatar.

Alexia Putellas of Barcelona took home the Best FIFA Women’s Player of 2022 award for the second consecutive year.

Mary Earps of Manchester United won the Best FIFA Women’s Goalkeeper of 2022 and Emiliano Martinez clinched the Best FIFA Men’s Goalkeeper accolade.

Warta Poznan amputee Marcin Oleksy won the Puskas Award while Lionel Scaloni was named Best FIFA Men’s Coach as Argentina claimed their World Cup victory.

Luka Lochoshvili earned the Fair Play Award and Argentinian supporters were honoured with the Fan Award for their celebration amidst their nation’s glory.

Lastly, a special Pele tribute award was presented to his widow, Marcia Aoki, by Ronaldo Nazario.

The players who were included in the FIFPRO Women’s World 11 are as follows:

Christiane Endler (Olympique Lyonnais, Chile), Lucy Bronze (Manchester City/Barcelona, England), Mapi Leon (Barcelona, Spain), Wendie Renard (Olympique Lyonnais, France), Leah Williamson (Arsenal, England), Lena Oberdorf (Wolfsburg, Germany), Alexia Putellas (Barcelona, Spain), Keira Walsh (Manchester City/Barcelona, England), Sam Kerr (Chelsea, Australia), Alex Morgan (Orlando Pride/San Diego Wave, USA) and Beth Mead (Arsenal, England).

The players who were included in the FIFPRO Men’s World 11 are as follows:

Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid, Belgium), Joao Cancelo (Manchester City/Bayern Munich, Portugal), Achraf Hakimi (Paris Saint-Germain, Morocco), Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool, Netherlands), Casemiro (Real Madrid/Manchester United, Brazil), Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City, Belgium), Luka Modric (Real Madrid, Croatia), Karim Benzema (Real Madrid, France), Erling Haaland (Borussia Dortmund/Manchester City, Norway), Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain, France) and Lionel Messi (Paris Saint-Germain, Argentina).

This article was updated 2 months ago

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