Messi Wins Record Seventh Ballon d’Or Prize

Posted by Thandiubani on Tue 30th Nov, 2021 - tori.ng

Messi won the last edition of the Ballon d’Or in 2019 before last year’s awards were cancelled due to the pandemic.

 
Lionel Messi has won his seventh Ballon d’Or award.
 
The award was presented to him by Lius Suarez at a ceremony in Paris on Monday.
 
Messi won the last edition of the Ballon d’Or in 2019 before last year’s awards were cancelled due to the pandemic. He also won in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and in 2015.
 
The 34-year-old scored 38 goals in 48 games last season for Barcelona and won the Copa del Rey before captaining Argentina to Copa America glory in July.
 
That was the first major international title of his glittering career, which had been spent entirely with Barcelona before his tearful departure from the Camp Nou in August and subsequent move to Paris Saint-Germain.
 
Messi has played just 11 games for PSG so far, scoring four goals, but he was rewarded as much as anything for his continued brilliance down the years.
 
He has now won the Ballon d’Or twice more than his old rival Cristiano Ronaldo — between them they have won 12 of the last 13 editions with the exception coming in 2018 when Luka Modric claimed the prize.
 
Prolific Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski finished second and Chelsea and Italy midfielder Jorginho was third in the voting by a jury of journalists from around the world.
 
Ronaldo, meanwhile, came in sixth.
 
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