The vote of awards The Best return to the crown Leo Messi as the best player of the previous year, ahead of Kylian Mbappe and Karim Benzema. But despite these final results, the analysis of voting of captains and coaches ‘discovered’ some details curious they deserve to be emphasized, although many do not go beyond mere anecdotes of the party that crowns the best of the year.
Just like the truth 43 of 386 The captains and selectors who have the right to vote will not include Leo in their selections. The 44th person who ‘forgot’ about Messi was… Messi himself, who was voted the captain of the Albiceleste.
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Leo beat Vini: 342 to 10
In total, 342 of the total 386 captains and coaches of the national team who voted included Leo Messi in the top three in 2022. Vinicius had to settle for the voting of 10 ‘voters’: five captains and five coaches. The ‘capi’ or the person who governs Brazil did not vote for him.
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“Get over there, idiot” doesn’t get it
The Argentina-Netherlands quarterfinals of the World Cup in Qatar was marked, on an iconic level, by Leo Messi’s ‘contempt’ of Louis van Gaal, coach ‘oranje’, and Leo’s “go there, fool” his own to a Dutch player. Two controversial actions that did not affect the captain of Argentina: Virgil Van Dijk, captain of the Netherlands, voted him the best player and Ronald Koeman, the successor of Van Gaal, also voted him.
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The vote of Luis de la Fuente
The Spanish coach was one of 28 not including Messi in his best-in-the-world hat-trick. De la Fuente favored Julián Álvarez, Jude Bellingham and Luka Modric. Only 28 of the 198 technicians who voted did not include Leo in their selection.
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Busquets, with ’10’
Sergio Busquets, who announced his farewell to the national team after the World Cup, performed his last act as captain of Red in the vote of The Best. And unlike Luis de la Fuente, Sergio gave his votes to Messi, ahead of Lewandowski and Benzema.
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Lewandowsi voted again for Messi; Leo returned to “forget” the Polish
If last year there was a controversy regarding the votes given by Lewandowski in favor of Messi, which he placed in second place, which did not find an echo in Leo, who did not include the Pole in his shortlist, this time, even without controversy, the story repeats itself. Messi once again ‘forgot’ about Barça’s ‘9’ and it, on the other hand, voted for him, this time as the first, ahead of Mbappé and Modric.
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Pepe never forgets
The central defender and captain of Portugal also did not give a single vote to Leo Messi. Perhaps remembering his past at Real Madrid, which led him to all kinds of cruel and even violent actions against the Argentine in Clásicos that one as a Real Madrid player and another for Barça starred , Pepe voted for Mbappé, Modric and Benzema. He is one of the 17 captains who did not include Leo in their shortlist. They voted 188.
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Modric, a vote of no return
Luka Modric, in his capacity as captain of the Croatian national team, gave his votes, in this order, to Benzema, Messi and Mbappé. A support that no one returned to the ’10’ of the albiceleste, who leaned on his friend Neymar, his teammate Mbappé and Real Madrid player Benzema.
Source: La Verdad
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