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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] [100] Best Player of the last 25 years by OneFootball: 2025 [101] Best Player of the Decade (2010–2019) by Sporting News: 2019 [102] [103]
Billed as Messi versus Germany, the world's best player against the best team, the final match on 13 July 2014 was a repeat of the 1986 and 1990 finals, which both featured Diego Maradona and split between both countries. [454] Within the first half-hour, Messi had started the play that led to a goal, but it was ruled offside.
Messi is widely regarded as one of the two best players of his generation, alongside Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo, [261] and one of the greatest footballers of all time. [262] A prodigious talent as a teenager, Messi established himself among the world's best players before age 20. [263]
Messi is a seven-time winner of the Ballon d'Or award for the best player in the world and lifted club soccer's biggest prize, the Champions League trophy, on four occasions.
In 2010, the FIFA World Player of the Year award combined with the Ballon d'Or to create the FIFA Ballon d'Or in a six-year partnership. [3] FIFA presided over the FIFA Ballon d'Or after agreeing to pay £13million for the merge of the two major player awards with France Football.
From its inception to 2017, it was known as The Guardian 100 Best Footballers in the World. It is decided by a panel of experts from several nations. [1] [2] Argentine player Lionel Messi is the record winner of the award with 6 wins.
May 28, 2011; London, ENGLAND; FC Barcelona player Lionel Messi (middle) and his teammates celebrate with the championship trophy after defeating Manchester United 3-1 in the 2011 UEFA Champions ...
Cristiano Ronaldo (left) has won the most awards while Lionel Messi (right) set the record for most calendar year goals.. The IFFHS World's Best Top Goal Scorer is a football award given annually since 2020, [1] and retroactively for the years 2011 to 2019, [2] to the world's top goalscorer in the calendar year.