According to FIFA’s announcement, Messi ranked 6th in the vote for The Best award in 2024. The Argentine star voted for his junior Lamine Yamal to win the award, while Cristiano Ronaldo did not vote.
Messi is the winner of the FIFA The Best 2023 award, the most of any player. Although he has moved to the US to play for Inter Miami, he is still on the 11-player shortlist for the award in the 2024 election.
However, the 37-year-old player only finished 6th with 25 points, above Toni Kroos (retired), Haaland or Mbappe, while only behind Lamine Yamal, Carvajal, Bellingham, Rodri and Vinicius.
Vinicius is the winner of the FIFA The Best 2024 award with 48 points, just 5 points ahead of Rodri. Rodri is the player who won the Golden Ball award before Vinicius with 1,170 points compared to 1,129, which caused a lot of controversy.
Meanwhile, Messi, as captain of the Argentina team, voted for Lamine Yamal to win the award, followed by Mbappe and Vinicius ranked third on the list.
Lamine Yamal is the player who recently received a lot of praise from Messi. The Argentine legend believes that the 17-year-old Barcelona player has a bright future ahead of him, and is a typical representative of the new generation of players.
Messi also predicted that Lamine Yamal will be the perfect replacement for his role at the Catalan team in the present and future, and will win major FIFA awards as well as the Golden Ball.
Compared to Messi, who continues to be nominated for the FIFA The Best award and voted for it, Ronaldo, although currently the captain of the Portuguese national team, has not participated in the vote in recent years. In 2022 and 2023, center-back Pepe was the representative voter, and in 2024, Bernardo Silva.
Ronaldo is said to have reacted to FIFA since his failure at the 2022 World Cup. The 39-year-old player also believes that FIFA is biased because it has repeatedly not included him in the shortlist for awards, and has shown contempt for him, so he decided to boycott the awards of the world football body.
At the FIFA The Best 2024, in addition to Vinicius winning the best male player award, Barcelona’s Aitana Bonmati won the best female player award. The best coach was Carlo Ancelotti (Real Madrid). Emiliano Martinez was the best goalkeeper, and Alejandro Garnacho won the best goal scorer award…
The 2024 FIFA The Best 2024 team of the year was announced, including goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez, defenders Carvajal, Rudiger, Dias, Saliba; midfielders Bellingham, Kroos and Rodri, strikers Lamine Yamal, Haaland and Vinicius.
