Messi Doesn’t Deserve To Win The Next Ballon d’Or – Rabiot

Lionel Messi doesn’t deserve to win the Ballon d’Or this year, Adrien Rabiot has said. He recently backed either Kylian Mbappe or Erling Haaland to win the prize, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he has been hearing too many people say Messi will win the award, but on a sporting level, that should not be the case.

Rabiot added that Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland are better candidates for the award because they both had great years.

His words, “I hear a lot of people saying Messi will win it. But on a sporting level, it will be between Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland. Saying which one of those two will be difficult, depends what it’s based on. No one ever agrees, but it will be between those two. I exclude everyone else.”

WOW.

Lionel Andrés Messi, also known as Leo Messi, is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains both Major League Soccer club Inter Miami and the Argentina national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Messi has won a record seven Ballon d’Or awards and a record six European Golden Shoes, and in 2020 he was named to the Ballon d’Or Dream Team.

Until leaving the club in 2021, he had spent his entire professional career with Barcelona, where he won a club-record 35 trophies, including ten La Liga titles, seven Copa del Rey titles and the UEFA Champions League four times.

With his country, he won the 2021 Copa América and the 2022 FIFA World Cup. A prolific goalscorer and creative playmaker, Messi holds the records for most goals in La Liga (474), most hat-tricks in La Liga (36) and the UEFA Champions League (eight), and most assists in La Liga (192) and the Copa América (17).

He also has the most international goals by a South American male (103). Messi has scored over 800 senior career goals for club and country, and has the most goals by a player for a single club (672).