It was unofficial, but now it has become official. Lionel Messi won the 2023 Ballon d’Or this Monday, thus reaching 8th place in the award considered by many to be the best footballer of the year.
The Argentine, who played for PSG last season and now represents the North Americans at Inter Miami, replaced French-Algerian Karim Benzema in the list of winners, regaining a trophy that he has already won seven times: in 2009, 2010, 2011 . 2012, 2015, 2019 and 2021 – In 2020, the Ballon d’Or was not awarded to any player due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Behind Lionel Messi remains Cristiano Ronaldo with five achievements (2008, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017), who this year, for the first time since 2004, was not included in the list of contenders for the award from the French magazine France Football.
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