Messi Guaranteed To Win The Ballon D’or? Ale Moreno Thinks So #shorts #messi

Alejandro Moreno from @ESPNFC believes Lionel Messi is definitely winning the 2023 Ballon D'or despite Erling Haalands incredible season and winning the treble with Manchester City. #shorts #football #messi #soccer

[Alaa-eiod]

The World Cup is the most important competition in the world, except when Spain won it in 2010.

[UnbearableYT]

You shouldn't win if you play half the year in the farmers league and the first half barely getting results. Impressive world cup, sure. He'll probably win it too as the balloon odor is a popularity contest and not who's the best footballer. But in my opinion, it won't be a deserved win.

[stephensell]

The ballon d’or has become who scores the most or wins the best trophy. It used to be about who was the best player and played the best.

It’s a fix I’m my eyes, don’t forget when it should have been Robert Lewondowski and they just said no winner that year

[christycullen]

This is the first bit of sense this guy has actually spoken. It is a popularity contest

[samsammy]

The World Cup happened 2 years ago and we still giving him awards not to mention another Ball on dor to Messi, this is CORRUPTION to its core it’s Rigged for Messi to win. What has Messi achieved this year ? The award should’ve gone to 2 players Haaland or Mbappe ! 💯😳

[Shhhh]

This award should be given to the best player In the world at the time. Not the player who has the best story or the player who’s team carried him to World Cup victory !

[sammarsaeed]

Mbappe won it in 2018 right? The hypocrisy of these pundits

[franciscoazevedo]

It is absolutely ridiculous if he wins. Nothing against Messi, I really love him, but comon, what players like Halland have been doing this past season is on another level, and on ANOTHER LEAGUE, the premier league, the most competitive league of the world

[factcheck]

World Cup is a legacy and bring whatever yearly competition on that year . No where near to compare. Not even a question. Messi won it as a best player with most contributions and most man of the match. Maradona 86 esque contribution. Anyone thinks otherwise needs a lesson on the game

[michaelsoetendal]

If i was haaland id take my name out of it, it's rigged

[jessevarela]

That's why Mbappe won the award in 2018 and Iniesta in 2010.
Oh wait, nevermind.
He's winning the award because he's adidas cash cow, end of story.

[stephensell]

The Ballon d’or is a strikers trophy and normally the most goals with a title.
They robbed Robert Lewandowski when they said no winner that year.
Haaland smashed it across the board but cause messi won the World Cup he got it.

Gone are the days of the best player winning. When was the last midfield/defender/goalkeeper winning it?

[martinmcnulty]

Got to be Haaland. Not even a discussion.

[jamesmccreery]

What organization on earth makes the most profit from unpaid labor? FIFA

[TheCofarrell]

The World Cup is massive, but he did basically retire from club football after that

[marioforever]

True, A World Cup is the biggest accolade in football and Mess will win it since he was outstanding in all games but the first and his performances for PSG was great in the first half of the season but lackluster in the 2nd and haaland amazing for the whole season but went missing in the most crucial games where lucky for him, he had Bernardo, Rodri and especially Gundogan to cover it up.
So basically, it's a 50-50 on this one, both of em deserve it but Messi will have the last laugh? Why? Because of the narrative, on how it capped off his unprecedented story in football and cuz it's Messi, football's favorite son.

[ianworley]

In which case, The Balon D'Or is a travesty in elite football. In Haaland's debut season, he wins the Golden Boot at a record goal tally in EPL history. City win the Treble and the Champion's League for the first time in the Club's history. Messi winning the World Cup pales into insignificance in comparison. As a United fan, like probably every other fan in England, nothing but absolute respect for his stratospheric talent. Messi's had his time and his Balon D'Or history, but no way should he win. He probably will because it's fixed, but he shouldn't.

[Midnight-otoi]

If we just give Leo Messi Ballon d'Or, I'm not gonna. What did Leo do all of the normal season? So Leo won the World Cup but not on his own. It isn't close a guy won a triple but this 2 week tournament outweighs the whole normal season?

[rob]

An MLS player winning the Balón de Oro meanwhile Europe has the best leagues and players in the world. Is sounds ridiculous. Messi is a baller but man the way the media tries to validate him winning the award this year doesn’t make sense. Messi didn’t win any other domestic cup with PSG besides the league 1 and that should be the bare minimum when you compare their squad to any other French side. Now with Inter the way I hear them talk about him they should go undefeated and win every cup or competition possible. In my eyes if the best player in the world at the moment is playing in a lower tier league like MLS he should be destroying everyone no matter what. Let’s be real here messi is 36 he just turned 36 whatever the case may be he has at least two good years left and honestly in the past 3 he hasn’t accomplished anything besides the World Cup. Yeah he has the stats but how many players have put up ridiculous stats in the past and we ignore them bc they don’t win any trophies. But we get to Messi and every single year he’s in the run for the award somehow finishing top 3. It’s been a popularity contest for a while now especially after the award was given to messi over other players. He is a product of fifa and their valuable product.

[michaeltrinkely]

No shit the wc is the biggest competition but that doesn’t change the fact at club level messi just wasn’t Messi