On February 28, artificial ball king Messi stole a heavyweight honor - the 2022 World Footballer of the Year.
Messi: Does he deserve this award? Just look at his performance.
The reference range for this World Footballer of the Year selection is from August 8, 2021 to December 18, 2022, and Messi was mediocre until the last month: his first season in Ligue 1 was extremely bad, scoring only 6 goals and becoming a Ligue 1 agent 006; The last 16 of the Champions League was eliminated by Real Madrid 3-2, and Messi personally kicked a flying penalty in the game, kicking Real Madrid throughout the summer, becoming the culprit of the team's elimination. His rival Benzema, who helped Real Madrid win La Liga and Champions League titles in the 21/22 season, won the La Liga Golden Boot and the Champions League Golden Boot himself. If you look at the performance in the league and the Champions League, Messi was dumped eight streets by Benzema.
Benzema scores
Before the start of the World Cup, Messi's performance was not related to the World Footballer of the Year. But it was these 7 games that made him popular with FIFA officials and Argentine fans!
Of course, Messi's 7 goals and 3 assists in the World Cup can be said to be remarkable, but don't forget that he scored 4 penalties out of 7, not to mention that there is a more unbelievable player in the World Cup - Mbappe! He scored eight goals and provided two assists in the World Cup, unlike Messi, only two of his goals were penalties! What's even more amazing is that Mbappe scored a hat-trick against Messi's Argentina team in the final! Therefore, looking at the World Cup performance, Messi can only rank second, the first is Mbappe!
Therefore, Messi compared with Benzema and Mbappe, it should not be him to win the award!
Compared with Benzema, the performance of the league and the Champions League is far inferior to others, and Messi fans will quibble, saying that Benzema did not go to the World Cup, and the world footballer mainly looks at the World Cup performance! But compared with Mbappe, the league and the Champions League performance, the two of them are one club, the collective honor is the same, the personal data Mbappe is better than Messi; Looking at the World Cup performance, Mbappe is much better than Messi. Messi fans said again: Messi is the World Cup winner, and Mbappe is just the runner-up!
It should be noted that France and Argentina drew 3:3 in the regular time of the final, and the two teams were equal, but the penalty shootout was lost due to bad luck. Just because Argentina is lucky enough to make Messi get such a high honor as the World Footballer of the Year, then this is not called World Footballer of the Year, it should be called World Water Polo Mr.
And this is not the first time there has been such a controversy. 10-year Sneijder Club Triple Crown + World Cup runner-up, not comparable to the four empty Messi; In 13 years, in order to let Ronaldo win the Golden Globe, he even made an operation such as postponing the vote; Van Dijk, who won the Champions League in 19 years and performed perfectly, is not as good as Messi, who was miraculously eliminated by Van Dijk's Liverpool in the Champions League; Lewandowski, who broke the Bundesliga goal record in 21 years, is even worse than Messi, who won the Weekly Cup!
Why does FIFA take such care of Mero in the award selection, and send the award to them as long as it performs better? Is it for the huge traffic behind the peerless double arrogance, is it to obtain greater benefits? This may never be certain, but FIFA's series of short-sighted operations to make money are undoubtedly smearing the sport of football and making this pure sport smell of money!