Lionel Messi has been named the 2022 Footballer of the Year,Alexia Putellas claims the award for best player in the women’s game

Paris:The elusive World Cup of his career has finally been lifted in 2022. He was also named the best player of the tournament. So it was virtually impossible to choose someone else as fifa’s best player of the year. Lionel Messi has been named the 2022 Footballer of the Year. Messi won the trophy by defeating club teammate Kylian Mbappe and Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema. FC Barcelona Femení’s Spanish midfielder Alexia Putellas claims the award for best player in the women’s game.

The footballer of the year is selected by the votes of coaches, captains and journalists of every country’s national team. The Best of 2022 Messi, Mbappe and Benzema were in the race to become players. French star Mbappe scored a hat-trick in the World Cup final. The pair of goals also came from Messi’s feet. In the end, Argentina won the World Cup by going to the penalty shoot-out. After 36 years, the cup was in the hands of blue-and-white jersey holders.
In the year of fulfilling the dream, the honor of FIFA’s Footballer of the Year was also in the hands of Messi. He won the title for the second time. Cristiano Ronaldo and Robert Leondowski have won the FIFA Player of the Year twice. However, there was a debate about this honor. It was known that the name of the best player was leaked before the official announcement. Football fans already knew that Messi was going to be the best footballer.