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Best Player of the 21st Century by The Independent: 2019 [93] [94] Best Player of the 21st Century by FourFourTwo: 2022 [95] Best Player of the 21st Century by ESPN: 2024 [96] Best Player of the 21st Century by Talksport: 2024 [97] Best Player of the 21st Century by Goal.com: 2024 [98] Best Player of the last 25 years by FourFourTwo: 2020 [99 ...
In 2024, US-based sports company ESPN named Messi the greatest player of the 21st-century. [12] Messi's club career began with Barcelona, where he rose through the youth ranks, making his first-team debut in 2004. Over the next years, Messi became the club's all-time leading scorer, amassing numerous domestic and international accolades.
FIFA Player of the Century was a one-off award created by FIFA to decide the greatest football player of the 20th century, announced at the annual FIFA World gala, held in Rome on 11 December 2000. [1] Diego Maradona and Pelé were joint winners of the award. [2] [3]
Benteke was the MLS Golden Boot winner with 23 goals for D.C. United. Messi became the fifth Argentine player to win MLS MVP, joining Luciano Acosta (FC Cincinnati, 2023), Diego Valeri (Portland ...
For his efforts in 2011, he received the FIFA Ballon d'Or, becoming only the fourth player in history to win the Ballon d'Or three times, [94] and the inaugural UEFA Best Player in Europe Award. [95] During the year 2012, Messi became the second player to be top scorer in four Champions League campaigns.
Messi was announced as the 2022 winner on Monday at the Best FIFA Awards ceremony in Paris. FC Barcelona's Alexia Putellas was named the best women's player for a second straight year. "It's ...
MLS revealed the voting results Friday. Messi edged out Columbus Crew forward Cucho Hernández for the award, which is determined by a poll of players, club technical staff and select media members. The club voters preferred Hernández over Messi by a slight margin; Messi was the choice of 41% of players and 43% of media.
Lionel Messi landed another prestigious award in soccer — barely. The Argentina star needed a tiebreaker with Erling Haaland to win FIFA's best men’s player prize on Monday. The voting ...