Argentina and Paris St-Germain ahead Lionel Messi has been named males’s participant of the 12 months on the 2022 Greatest Fifa Awards.
Based on worldwide media experiences, the 35-year-old beat French forwards Kylian Mbappe and Karim Benzema to the prize.
Messi captained Argentina to World Cup glory in Qatar, and scored 27 targets in 49 video games for membership and nation in 2021-22.
Barcelona’s Alexia Putellas was named girls’s participant of the 12 months.
Messi, who received the award for a second time, stated: “It is superb. It has been an incredible 12 months and it is an honour for me to be right here and win this award. With out my team-mates I would not be right here.
“I achieved the dream I had been hoping for for so long. Very few people can achieve that and I have been lucky to do so.”
On the ceremony in Paris, Lionel Scaloni, who led Argentina to their third World Cup title, was named males’s coach of the 12 months.
Scaloni beat Pep Guardiola – who guided Manchester Metropolis to a sixth Premier League title – and Actual Madrid’s Champions League-winning boss Carlo Ancelotti to the honour.
England supervisor Sarina Wiegman was named girls’s coach of the 12 months after main the Lionesses to European Championship glory on dwelling soil final 12 months, the group’s first main trophy.
Aston Villa and Argentina’s Emiliano Martinez was recognised as the most effective males’s goalkeeper, whereas England’s Mary Earps received the ladies’s award.
Martinez, 30, helped his nation win the World Cup, saving 4 penalties alongside the way in which together with within the shootout victory in opposition to France within the remaining.
