Barcelona legend Lionel Messi is in line to win his eighth Ballon d’Or later this month after the winners for both the male and female awards for this year were leaked on social media.
Leaked Results: Lionel Messi To Win Ballon D’Or For Eighth Time
The 36-year-old failed to win the award last year, but is now set to win his third since 2019 and a record-breaking eighth overall.
Messi took his illustrious career to new heights when guiding Argentina to World Cup glory in Qatar last year, and it looks to have helped him a lot en route to winning yet another Ballon d’Or.
🇦🇷 Lionel Messi’s 2022/23 campaign:
🥇 Highest rated player in Europe’s top 5 leagues (8.28)
🥇 Highest rated player at the 2022 World Cup (8.25)
⭐️ Most WS POTM awards (16)
🏆 World Cup winner
⚽️ 28 goals
🅰️ 23 assists👏 The Argentine has won the 2023 Ballon d’Or, per reports pic.twitter.com/DRbNvtQsB4
— WhoScored.com (@WhoScored) October 17, 2023
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The prestigious award will be presented at Paris’ Theatre du Chatelet on October 30th where Messi will return to the French capital just months after leaving Paris Saint-Germain.
Messi struggled to settle in Ligue 1 when joining the French giants after 17 years at Barcelona, but still had a say in proceedings and helped the side clinch consecutive titles with 16 goals and 16 assists.
Eventually leaving Paris in the summer, he joined Inter Miami in the MLS and immediately set the league alight with a string of influential performances.
You can see the full list of Ballon d’Or nominees for 2023 below.
Ballon D’Or 2023 Nominees
Messi is set to be challenged by the likes of Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland, but looks set to come out on top thanks to his heroics in Qatar last year.
- Josko Gvardiol (Manchester City)
- Andre Onana (Manchester United)
- Karim Benzema (Al Ittihad)
- Jamal Musiala (Bayern Munich)
- Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)
- Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid)
- Bukayo Saka (Arsenal)
- Randal Kolo Muani (Paris Saint Germain)
- Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City)
- Bernardo Silva (Manchester City)
- Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Napoli)
- Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa)
- Ruben Dias (Manchester City)
- Nicola Barella (Inter Milan)
- Erling Haaland (Manchester City)
- Yassine Bounou (Al Hilal)
- Martin Odegaard (Arsenal)
- Julian Alvarez (Manchester City)
- Ilkay Gundogan (Barcelona)
- Vinicius Jr (Real Madrid)
- Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona)
- Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid)
- Lautaro Martinez (Inter MIlan)
- Lionel Messi (Inter Miami)
- Rodri (Barcelona)
- Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint German)
- Kim Min-Jae (Bayern Munich)
- Victor Osimhen (Napoli)
- Luka Modric (Real Madrid)
- Harry Kane (Bayern Munich)
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