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Hazan did not vote for Messi, Salah "protests": the votes for the FIFA player of the year - Walla! Sport

2023-02-28T07:28:40.454Z


The votes were revealed: the coach of the Israeli national team did not include the Argentinian nor Mbappe in his top 3 candidates for the title. Who did Natcho vote for?


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Shortly after Lionel Messi was crowned player of the year at the FIFA awards ceremony last night (Monday), the distribution of voters was revealed as every year and thus it was revealed who the votes of the national team coaches and captains went to. included him among their three selections, even though he led the Argentine national team to a historic win in the World Cup and was chosen as the outstanding player of that tournament.



One of those surprising was the coach of the Israeli national team, Alon Hazan, who also did not include Kylian Mbappe in his top 3: Karim Benzema, Robert Lewandowski and Erling Holland, In this order, the votes of the cantor were received.National captain Beavers Natchou, as opposed to the coach, voted for Messi first, followed by Benzema and Mbappe.

Pass over Messi.

Alon Hazan (Photo: Shlomi Gabai)

The coach of the Costa Rica national team, Luis Suarez, also ignored Messi, and voted for Lewandowski, Benzema and Kevin de Brauna.

Michael Muller, the technical director of the South Korean national team, also passed over the Argentinian star and placed Jude Bellingham in first place, no less, followed by Arling Holland and in third place another surprising name - Ashraf Hakimi.

Marco Montero, the man on the lines of the Nicaragua national team, voted Benzema, Mbappe, Luka Modric.

The Senegalese Elio Sissa awarded Mbappe the first place, followed by Hakimi and his apprentice Sadio Mane third.



Among the captains, Mohamed Salah did not vote for Messi and in a "protest" move went first to Vinicius, whose exclusion from the extended list of candidates led Real Madrid to send only Emilio Bottregno as a representative to the ceremony.

De Brauna and Hakimi also received votes from Salah.

Gabon's Lloyd Fallon placed Julian Albers, Messi's teammate, in first place ahead of Benzema and Lewandowski.

Dominic Soboslai also passed over the flea: Holland, Benzema and Mbappe were his choices.

Pepe, who voted for Portugal, and the captains of the national teams of Lesotho, South Sudan and the United Arab Emirates, also decided not to give Messi a vote.

The winner himself, by the way, voted for his teammates - Neymar first and Mbappe second - and Benzema.

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Source: walla

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