{"id":22890,"date":"2023-02-28T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/02\/28\/lionel-messi-wins-best-fifa-mens-player-of-the-year-award\/"},"modified":"2023-02-28T10:00:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T10:00:32","slug":"lionel-messi-wins-best-fifa-mens-player-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/02\/28\/lionel-messi-wins-best-fifa-mens-player-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi wins Best Fifa men&#8217;s player of the year award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"637\" height=\"475\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-27-220259.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Screenshot 2023-02-27 220259\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Argentina and Paris St-Germain forward Lionel Messi has been named men\u2019s player of the year at the 2022 Best Fifa Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner beat French forwards Kylian Mbappe and Karim Benzema to the prize.<\/p>\n<p>Messi, 35, helped Argentina win the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, scoring 27 goals in 49 games for club and country in 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Barcelona\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Alexia Putellas<\/strong>\u00a0was named women\u2019s player of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Messi, who won the award for a second time, said: \u201cIt\u2019s amazing. It\u2019s been a tremendous year and it\u2019s an honour for me to be here and win this award. Without my team-mates I wouldn\u2019t be here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI achieved the dream I had been hoping for for so long. Very few people can achieve that and I have been lucky to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the ceremony in Paris,\u00a0<strong>Lionel Scaloni,\u00a0<\/strong>who led Argentina to their third World Cup title, was named men\u2019s coach of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Scaloni beat Pep Guardiola \u2013 who led Manchester City to a sixth Premier League title \u2013 and Real Madrid\u2019s Champions League-winning boss Carlo Ancelotti to the honour.<\/p>\n<p>England manager<strong>\u00a0Sarina Wiegman\u00a0<\/strong>was named women\u2019s coach of the year\u00a0after guiding the Lionesses to European Championship glory on home soil last year, the team\u2019s first major trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Aston Villa and Argentina\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Emiliano Martinez\u00a0<\/strong>was recognised as the leading men\u2019s goalkeeper. The 30-year-old helped his country win the World Cup, saving four penalties along the way including in the shootout victory against France in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Amputee footballer\u00a0<strong>Marcin Oleksy,<\/strong>\u00a0of Polish side Warta Poznan, won the Fifa Puskas award for the best goal in world football for his stunning overhead volley against Stal Rzeszow, which he sent flying into the back of the net with the help of his crutches.<\/p>\n<p>Recipient of the Fifa Fair Play Award was\u00a0<strong>Luka Lochoshvili,\u00a0<\/strong>who held the tongue of his opponent, Georg Teigl, to save his life after the midfielder had fallen unconscious.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fifpro men\u2019s world XI:\u00a0<\/strong>Thibaut Courtois; Achraf Hakimi, Virgil van Dijk, Joao Cancelo; Kevin De Bruyne, Luka Modric, Casemiro; Lionel Messi, Erling Haaland, Karim Benzema, Kylian Mbappe.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/_128797297_fifabestxi.png\" alt=\"Fifa Best men's world XI\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"UiyPWZmKN6c\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Newmont: Dokyikrom residents petition Ghana Police Service on \u2018kume preko\u2019 picketing (27-2-23)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UiyPWZmKN6c?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina and Paris St-Germain forward Lionel Messi has been named men\u2019s player of the year at the 2022 Best Fifa Awards. The seven-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner beat French forwards Kylian Mbappe and Karim Benzema to the prize. Messi, 35, helped Argentina win the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, scoring 27 goals in 49 games for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lionel Messi wins Best Fifa men&#039;s player of the year award - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/02\/28\/lionel-messi-wins-best-fifa-mens-player-of-the-year-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lionel Messi wins Best Fifa men&#039;s player of the year award - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Argentina and Paris St-Germain forward Lionel Messi has been named men\u2019s player of the year at the 2022 Best Fifa Awards. 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