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  • Argentina sweeps FIFA’s ‘The Best’ awards; Messi and Putellas, the most outstanding

    Argentina sweeps FIFA’s ‘The Best’ awards; Messi and Putellas, the most outstanding

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    This Monday the prizes that highlight the best coach and the most outstanding players were delivered. Messi, Scaloni, Martínez and the Argentine fans took the most anticipated prizes. For her part, Alexia Putellas repeated as the most outstanding footballer.

    After the World Cup in Qatar, the International Federation of Associated Football (FIFA) gala did not have many surprises: Argentina, the world champion team, swept the most important awards: best player, best goalkeeper and best coach.

    “The World Cup kills any competition,” said a journalist from the ‘ESPN’ channel in Spanish. And it is not out of reason. The World Cup, in addition to paralyzing the planet, is the final aspiration of a footballer. Played for the first time in the Middle East, Qatar 2022 had the advantage of bringing together the best football players from 32 national teams. All with the thirst to return to the World Cup grass after a year of delay due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

    With that drag Lionel Messi was crowned the most valuable player of 2022. He broke the string of Robert Lewandowski, who won the award in 2020 and 2021. The competition was not easy, the French Kylian Mbappé and Karim Benzema were the other nominees for the award at the ceremony on Monday.

    Messi addresses those attending the FIFA gala in which the best players of 2022 were awarded. The Argentine star has the most important titles in world football under his belt. © Reuters – Sarah Meyssonnier

    “Is incredible. It was a tremendous year and it is an honor for me to be here tonight and win this award”, said the only player who has all the important football trophies. “I achieved a dream that I had been waiting for so long and I finally did it. It is a dream for any player, very few people can achieve it and I was lucky to do it ”, he concluded.

    Lionel Scaloni experienced a similar situation, who had to dispute the recognition of best coach against ‘Carletto’ Ancelotti, the Real Madrid coach and Pep Guardiola, coach of the powerful Manchester City.

    For his part, the best goalkeeper was Emiliano ‘Dibu’ Martínez, who dedicated the award to his parents and brother. “They worked 12, 13 hours a day to provide food for my house” while he was in the sport, said ‘Dibu’ to the cameras of the reporters present. His mother cleaned floors while his father worked at the port, in a truck “that was leaking water,” the athlete said.

    The Argentine fans were not left out of the party. He won the prize for the best fans.

    The albiceleste only sought one goal: the world cup. An objective that everyone was clear about, the common factor of the statements of the three prominent ones. While Scaloni stressed that the key to victory was teamwork, Messi highlighted the work of his teammates.

    The glasses also witnessed Messi’s claims. “For me it was my last World Cup and I wanted to enjoy it to the fullest”, a sentence that opens the door to future debates about the end of the 35-year-old’s career.

    Putellas, the most outstanding soccer player

    Everywhere you turned in the theater there was a star, either retired or active.

    In the women’s field, several awards were also given: Alexia Putellas won the trophy for the second year in a row. Putellas took it in the middle of a race with the English Beth Mead, from Arsenal and the American Alex Morgan, from the San Diego Wave club.

    Alexia Putellas was awarded as the best female player for the second year in a row. In Paris, France, on February 27, 2023.
    Alexia Putellas was awarded as the best female player for the second year in a row. In Paris, France, on February 27, 2023. © Reuters – Sarah Meyssonnier

    Mary Earps was chosen as the best goalkeeper, as well as Sarina Wiegman, the best coach.

    The other FIFA awards

    The Puskas award for the best goal of the year went to the Polish player Marcin Oleksy. This athlete lost his lower left leg in a work accident, which is why he plays in the amputee category. A half-volley goal supported on one of his crutches was enough to win the award.

    At the gala, tribute was also paid to Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as ‘Pelé’, who died last December.

    ‘The Best’ has been awarded since 2017 after the breakup of the old ‘FIFA World Player’ award with the ‘Ballon d’Or’, awarded by the French publication ‘France Football’. A merger that tried to unify the criteria for who was the best player of the year.

    With Reuters, AP and local media

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  • Messi and Alexia Putellas are crowned at The Best

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    Jose Manuel Andres

    Lionel Messi and Alexia Putellas are the best in the world for FIFA. The highest body in world football differed from the criteria established by the Ballon d’Or awarded to Karim Benzema in October and already with the World Cup on the table, unlike the prize awarded by ‘France Football’, recognized the Argentine star with The Best trophy of Paris Saint-Germain. The man from Rosario was crowned in the city where he now lives as the king of a night in which the queen was once again Spanish. Alexia Putellas rounded off a dream 2022 with her second consecutive Ballon d’Or-The Best double, confirming her status as the most unbalancing player on the planet.

    In the men’s category, the World Cup in Qatar ended up being decisive, as usually happens in years of great national team tournaments. Messi closed the circle of a dream career in Doha with the long-awaited World Cup. It was the only gap in his palmares, the thorn stuck in it since that final lost to Germany in Brazil 2014, the last conquest to finally reach Maradona, the great myth. This The Best also has a special significance, since it is the tenth individual trophy for a player who is incomparable in terms of numbers. To his seven Ballon d’Ors and the FIFA World Player of the year 2009, before the governing body of world football and ‘France Football’ joined his paths until 2016, he now adds his second The Best.

    «It is a pleasure and an honor to be here again, with Karim and Kylian, who had a great season. This year was crazy for me, I was able to achieve my dream after fighting so much and insisting so much,” said Messi, who highlighted the work of his teammates and the coaching staff of the Argentine team at the peak of a gala that It recovered its traditional splendor after the telematic version of 2021 due to the covid-19 pandemic. A brilliant night in the city of light in which the figure of Pelé was very present, to whom a beautiful tribute was paid with images to remember, the presence of his widow and the moving speech of his compatriot Ronaldo Nazário .

    The attacker from Rosario was the undisputed leader of the Albiceleste that conquered the world 36 years after that unforgettable summer of 1986 in Mexico. His seven goals and three assists earned him recognition as the best player of the tournament. And it is that Messi was the MVP of five of the seven games of Argentina in Qatar, including the four qualifying duels, a total dominance in the best of scenarios that has ended up being decisive for the election of The Best. And it is that good proof of the weight of the World Cup in the award is also offered by the nomination of Kylian Mbappé, runner-up in Qatar with a French team of which the PSG attacker was also an indisputable reference.

    The Frenchman slipped into the podium of the great individual football trophies for the first time, in a clear sample of what is to come in the coming years, and confirmed that the club competition has had less weight in the choice of the winner , as Messi and Mbappé dominated despite a disappointing season at the Parque de los Príncipes. The pharaonic PSG fulfilled the Ligue 1 title, an obligation, but crashed again in the Champions League, with the epic KO in the round of 16 against Karim Benzema’s Real Madrid, to which its wonderful European nights opened the doors of the Ballon d’Or but not of The Best, which takes into account the entire year 2022 and not the season, as in the case of the award given by ‘France Football’. The three were in the FIFA ideal eleven, completing a dream attack together with Haaland, with Casemiro, Kevin de Bruyne and Modric in midfield, Achraf, Van Dijk and Cancelo as defenders and Courtois under sticks despite not being voted best goalkeeper

    “Enjoy the way”

    In the women’s category, the club competitions were decisive, as Alexia Putellas won her second consecutive trophy despite being left out of the Eurocup due to a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee, from which she is still recovering. The Barça player prevailed over the English striker of Arsenal Beth Mead, European champion with her team, and the American attacker Alex Morgan, player of the North American San Diego Wave and one of the most mediatic footballers on the planet. “This shows that if you have a dream you have to pursue it and above all, enjoy the journey,” said the Barça midfielder, who was also part of an ideal eleven with another Spaniard, Mapi León.

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