Many major newspapers confirmed that Lionel Messi defeated Erling Haaland in the 2023 FIFA Golden Ball voting.
The 2023 Golden Ball Award Gala will take place in Paris on October 30. Before the award ceremony, many famous newspapers pointed out the name of the owner of the above noble title, none other than Lionel Messi .
Specifically, according to Dailymail (UK), Argentina team captain Lionel Messi is preparing to win his 8th Golden Ball later this month, after a vote for the prestigious title by the prestigious magazine France Football (France). ) organization has had results.
Spain’s Sport newspaper announced that superstar Lionel Messi won the 2023 Golden Ball award, beating striker Erling Haaland. La Pulga extended its record of being honored 8 times. He has won 7 previous Golden Balls in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019 and 2021.
Messi is predicted to win the Golden Ball for the 8th time
Also according to Sport, star of the Barcelona women’s team , Aitana Bonmati, will win the Golden Ball for women. Previously, another Barca star Alexia Putellas won the award in 2021 and 2022.
Like Messi, this 29-year-old female player led the Spanish women’s team to win the 2023 Women’s World Cup after defeating England 1-0 last August. She was also the pillar that helped Barca win the Champions League last season.
Aitana Bonmati, will win the women’s Golden Ball
Reputable transfer expert Fabrizio Romano also confirmed on his personal page that Messi won the Golden Ball for the 8th time in his career.
Caught Offside pointed out exactly the reason why Messi ‘knocked out’ Haaland: “Haaland’s scoring record in the Premier League in his first season for Man City is really special. He deserves praise, but wasn’t the Norwegian striker bought for that?
In the biggest match of the season – the Champions League final against Inter Milan , Haaland was nowhere to be seen and did not make any impact. Before that, in matches with Real Madrid , he was also lackluster… Winning the treble with Man City clearly helps Haaland become a candidate for the 2023 Golden Ball, or Mabppe’s hat-trick and scoring record at the World Cup. Cups too. But Messi is still ‘ranked higher’ than both.
The fact that he inspired and led Argentina to World Cup 2022 glory is more than enough. But we can still ‘list’ Messi’s goals and assists for PSG and Inter Miami as well as the impact he created…Messi always appears in important moments, when the team needs him the most. . He deserves to win the 2023 Golden Ball.”
Messi is predicted to defeat Haaland in the race to win the 2023 Golden Ball
At the age of 36, Messi still shows great performance. He and Argentina were crowned champions of the 2022 World Cup. This striker also created an unbelievable fever in the US when he agreed to join David Beckham’s Inter Miami.
Winning the 2023 award will help Messi surpass his great rival Cristiano Ronaldo in the history of the Golden Ball. CR7 has only been honored 5 times.
