This Monday, at 36 years old, Argentine Lionel Messi won the Ballon d’Or from the French magazine France Football for the eighth time in his career, establishing himself as the best footballer of the 2022/23 season.
At the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Messi was crowned for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where he led Argentina to its third title with seven goals and three assists. Thus, the Argentine repeated the distinctions of 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019 and 2021, now adding three more trophies than the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo.
In 2022/23, Messi scored 38 goals and 26 assists in 54 games, winning, in addition to the World Cup – a title he was missing – the championship and the French Super Cup, in his second season with Paris Saint-Germain. which he changed to Inter Miami.
Source: TSF