Lionel Messi received The Finest FIFA males’s participant prize for 2022 on Monday on the again of his World Cup triumph with Argentina and Spain’s Alexia Putellas retained the ladies’s award at a ceremony in Paris. Messi beat his Paris Saint-Germain teammate, and World Cup closing rival, Kylian Mbappe to the lads’s gong with Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema the opposite contender to say the prize. It’s the second time that Messi has received the honour inaugurated by FIFA in 2016 after soccer’s world governing physique break up from Ballon d’Or organisers France Soccer.

The award, which is voted for by nationwide staff coaches and captains, journalists and likewise followers, recognises a 12 months by which the previous Barcelona star topped his superb profession by main Argentina to victory on the World Cup.

Messi scored twice in an epic closing in Doha as Argentina beat France on penalties regardless of Mbappe netting a hat-trick for Les Bleus in a outstanding 3-3 draw.

The 35-year-old, a seven-time Ballon d’Or winner, succeeds Robert Lewandowski on the FIFA honours listing, whereas Putellas retained the ladies’s prize regardless of spending the second half of final 12 months out injured.

The 29-year-old beat England’s European Championship-winning striker Beth Mead and United States star Alex Morgan so as to add the FIFA crown to the Ballon d’Or, which she has additionally received two years working.

Putellas is presently recovering from a severe knee damage suffered final July which noticed her miss the Euro in England with Spain.

Previous to that she had scored 11 targets on Barcelona’s run to the Champions League closing, which they misplaced to Lyon.

Full listing of different award winners:

Argentina – FIFA Fan Award 2022

Luka Lochoshvili – FIFA Honest Play Award

Lionel Scaloni – FIFA Males’s Coach 2022

Sarina Wiegman – FIFA Ladies’s Coach 2022

Marcin Oleksy – The FIFA Puskas Award (finest purpose)

Emiliano Martinez – FIFA Males’s Goalkeeper Award 2022

Mary Earps – FIFA Ladies’s Goalkeeper 2022