How many The Best awards has Lionel Messi won?

The separation of FIFA and ‘France Football’ magazine, which for several years merged the Ballon d’Or into the FIFA Ballon d’Or, the world’s highest football institution, created its own award, known as ‘The Best’.

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HISTORY OF MESSI WITH THE AWARD THE BEST

At the presentation of the fourth edition of these awards, the then Argentinian player of the FCBarcelona, Lionel Messi, who is a regular presence during the season at the awards gala for the best players in the world, eventually retained it. Although for many was the great favorite van Dijk, the Argentinian kept his first and only the best in his career.

Messi, who had been champions with the Barcelona team in that 2018-19 season and semi-finalist in the Champions League, and finalist in the Copa del Rey with the then Ernesto Valverde, was one of three candidates to win the award with Cristiano Ronaldo And Virgil Van Dyke.

Messi, who scored 54 goals in 58 games that season with both the Spanish team and the Argentina team, could never have won the trophy recognized by FIFA as the best player of the season in Europe.

At the first gala in history, which awarded the best of the year 2016, de Rosario could only finish second, just behind his biggest rival, Cristiano Ronaldo. With 26.4%, he was almost nine points behind the Portuguese, who won the first prize in history.

The following year, in the 2017 edition, Messi again had to settle for second place in the battle for the prize. Ronaldo increased his lead in the vote, to 43.2%, compared to the Argentine’s 19.02%, further than ever from his closest rival.

In the 2017-18 season, Messi didn’t even make the final shortlist to win FIFA’s ‘The Best’. In his place were trophy winner Luka Modric, Cristiano Ronaldo and Mohamed Salah, from Liverpool.

In 2021, the trophy came into the hands of Robert Lewandowskiwho had a brilliant scoring season at Bayern Munich, where he also added titles.