“After fighting for years and stumbling frequently, I finally got there,” smiles Messi.
The PSG player obviously does not speak directly of the Golden Ball he has just won, it is his 7th, but of the victory won with his national team, Argentina during the 2021 Copa America. His first title won with Argentina and first trophy for the national team for 28 years.
A victory which, according to Lionel Messi, played on this seventh success, which thus becomes the only player in the world to have won 7 Golden Balls since the creation of the Trophy in 1956.
As for PSG, his new club since this year, he also welcomes his first Ballon d'Or in its ranks. "It is a pride for me to be the first player to win it with the PSG jersey.
It's very special, because I have always won it with Barcelona, so being able to do it with another jersey, even more in Paris, that it be given to me in the city in which I live today, it is very special ”, assured the player at the end of the ceremony.
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Guillem Balague, expert journalist of the Spanish championship and biographer of the Argentine star, thinks that Lionel Messi will have the possibility of winning an 8th, during the World Cup which will take place in less than a year in Qatar.
“As long as Messi is on the pitch, he will be a serious candidate for the Golden Ball.
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