Lionel Messi won the Ballon d’Or for the 7th time on Monday, prolonging his document, as Alexia Putellas ended up being the 3rd champion of the ladies’s honor.
” I’m really pleased to be right here, pleased to maintain defending brand-new prizes,” Messi claimed via a translator. “I do not recognize the number of years I have actually left, yet I wish a lot more. I would love to give thanks to all my (previous) colleagues at Barcelona and also Argentina.”
Messi completed with 613 indicate leading Bayern Munich and also Poland demonstrator Robert Lewandowski on 580.
Messi counts 2 even more Ballon d’Or honors than long time competing Cristiano Ronaldo, that was 6th in the ballot.
It followed a sensational last period with Barcelona and also his initial significant worldwide prize win with Argentina in July.
Granted by France Football publication, the Ballon d’Or has actually been offered to males annually given that 1956 when Stanley Matthews won.
On the other hand, Putellas ended up being the 3rd champion of the ladies’s honor for a superior period with Barcelona and also Spain.
She aided Barca win the treble and also racked up 26 objectives in 42 video games on the whole.
The midfielder netted in the Champions Organization last versus Chelsea, and also in August she was called UEFA ladies’s gamer of the year.
” I’m really psychological, it’s an extremely unique minute,” she claimed at the Paris event via a translator. “I want to begin by saying thanks to all my colleagues, particularly my existing (Barcelona) colleagues. For me, it’s a cumulative success.”
The only previous ladies’s honor champions are Norway demonstrator Ada Hegerberg in 2018, and also united state onward Megan Rapinoe in 2019.
Both 2020 honors were terminated as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In various other honors, the Kopa Prize for the very best under 21 gamer mosted likely to 19-year-old Spain and also Barcelona midfielder Pedri.
Gianluigi Donnarumma, that aided Italy win the Euros, won the Yashin prize for ideal goalkeeper.
