This Tuesday the awards were presented FIFA The Best to the most outstanding athletes in the world of football in the last year. The Brazilian Vinicius Junior won the award for best player in the world for the first time in his career, being escorted by Rodri y Jude Bellinghamin second and third place on the podium respectively.
The figure of Real Madrid won in a close vote with the central steering wheel of the Manchester Citywho closed at 43 points behind the Brazilian’s 48. The midfielder led in the opinion of the coaches and the press, but the attacker subtracted that advantage with his supremacy among the team captains and the overwhelming support of the fans (he quadrupled it in votes).
Lionel Messi was in sixth place with 25 pointsbehind comeRodri, Bellingham (37), Dani Carvajal (31) and Lamine Yamal (30). Precisely, the For money He was one of those in charge of participating in the vote as captain of the Argentine team: he chose his own team in first place. Yamala 17-year-old gem who plays for Barcelona, continued with Kylian Mbappé and ended the trio of options with Vinicius Juniorto whom he gave 5, 3 and 1 point in that order.
On the other hand, the coach of the Albiceleste, Lionel Scalonialso participated in the votes. In this case, the Gringo he praised Messi in first place ahead of Rodri y Jude Bellingham. Ultimately, the journalist Claudio Mauri He represented the country on the press panel and made up the podium as follows: Rodri, Lamine Yamal y Toni Kroos.
The sixth place achieved by Messi The voting happened thanks to his colleagues and drivers from each national team. The captain of Chile, Arturo Vidaldistinguished himself among the players who chose Leo in first place, while the wearer of the bracelet in Italy, Gianluigi Donnarummarepeated this recognition, as did the Bangladeshi footballers (Sohel Rana), Anguilla (Germain Hughes), Fiji (Roy Krishna), Gibraltar (Liam Walker) and Laos (Bounphachan Bounkong), among others.
In the field of counselors, the world champion with Argentina added points to Messi along with his compatriots, because Ricardo Gareca (Chile), Néstor Lorenzo (Colombia), Sebastián Beccacece (Ecuador), Juan Antonio Pizzi (Kuwait), Marcelo Bielsa (Uruguay) and Mauricio Pochettino (United States) They took him to first place in their votes. On the other hand, Gustavo Alfaro (Paraguay) left him in second place behind Kroos and Fernando Batista (Venezuela) placed him behind Rodri and Vinicius in his consideration.
He Top 10 It was closed with Toni Kroos and Erling Haaland (18 points), Kylian Mbappé (14) and Florian Wirtz (8), who was voted at the top of the ranking by four people, three of them who share different moments of the season: Lukas Hradecky and Granit Xhaka, captains of Finland and Switzerland, are his teammates at Bayer Leverkusen, while Julian Nagelsmann is his coach in Germany. The remaining one is the coach of the Swiss team, Murat Yakin.
Federico Valverde was one step away from entering that select group because he ended up in the 11th placement with four points. The captain of Uruguay, José María Giménezand the journalist from that country, Rómulo Martínez Chenlothey elevated him to first place, although those same choices by the player from Antigua and Barbuda drew attention, Quinton Griffithand the East Timor coach, Simon Elissetche.
Coaches of the national teams, captains of the national teams, expert football journalists and fans participated in the voting, choosing their three favorites (points were awarded to each nominee depending on the place where they had been placed: five points for the first place, three for second and one for third). To make the final numbers, a table was made for each range of voters and 13 points were given to the 1st, 11 points to the 2nd, 9 points to the 3rd, 8 points to the 4th, 7 points to the 5th, 6 points at 6th, 5 points at 7th, 4 points at 8th, 3 points at 9th, 2 points at 10th and 1 point at 11th.
- Vinicius Junior: 48 points
- Rodri: 43 points
- Jude Bellingham: 37 points
- Dani Carvajal: 31 points
- Lamine Yamal: 30 points
- Lionel Messi: 25 points
- Toni Kroos: 18 points
- Erling Haaland: 18 points
- Kylian Mbappé: 14 points
- Florian Wirtz: 8 points
- Federico Valverde: 4 points
