Argentina and Paris St-Germain forward Lionel Messi has been named men's player of the year at the 2022 Best Fifa Awards.
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 goals in 49 games for club
and country in 2021-22.
Barcelona's Alexia Putellas was
named women's player of the year.
§ Wiegman and Putellas
win major women's honours
Messi, who won the award
for a second time, said: "It's amazing. It's been a tremendous year and
it's an honour for me to be here and win this award. Without my team-mates I
wouldn't be 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."
At the ceremony in
Paris, Lionel
Scaloni,who led Argentina to their third World Cup title, was
named men's coach of the year.
Scaloni beat Pep
Guardiola - who guided Manchester City to a sixth Premier League title - and
Real Madrid's Champions League-winning boss Carlo Ancelotti to the honour.
England manager Sarina Wiegman was named women's coach of the year after
leading the Lionesses to European Championship glory on home soil last year,
the team's first major trophy.
Aston Villa and Argentina's Emiliano Martinez was
recognised as the best men's goalkeeper, while England's Mary Earps won the women's award.
Martinez, 30, helped his
country win the World Cup, saving four penalties along the way including in the
shootout victory against France in the final.
Collecting his award,
Martinez said: "They always ask me who my idols are or who I watched when
I was a kid… watching my mum clean buildings for eight or nine hours and watching
my dad work. They are my idols."
Earps, who plays for
Manchester United in the Women's Super League, started all six of England's
games at Euro 2022 as they won the competition.
She said: "For
anyone who has been in a dark place, just know there is light at the end of the
tunnel, so keep going. You can achieve anything that you set your mind
to."
§ How Martinez became world's best goalkeeper
Amputee footballer Marcin Oleksy, of
Polish side Warta Poznan, won the Fifa Puskas award for the best goal of the
year. He sent a stunning overhead volley against Stal Rzeszow flying into the
back of the net with the help of his crutches.
Recipient of the fair
play award was Luka
Lochoshvili, who held the tongue of his opponent, Georg
Teigl, to save his life after the midfielder had fallen unconscious.
Fifpro men's world
XI: Thibaut Courtois; Achraf Hakimi, Virgil van Dijk, Joao Cancelo;
Kevin De Bruyne, Luka Modric, Casemiro; Lionel Messi, Erling Haaland, Karim
Benzema, Kylian Mbappe.
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