He already has six. Never seen. He is bigger. Leo Messi has been crowned in the spectacular Théatre du Châtelet in Paris with his sixth Golden Ball . No one in history has won the magazine’s award so many times France Football, on whose cover will appear this Wednesday the ’10’ of the FC Barcelona, which exceeds the five trophies of Cristiano Ronaldo, who equaled him in 2017. Messi , who won it before in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015, thus completing an impressive year with the sixth Golden Boot and his first The Best of FIFA.
Messi, winner of the Golden Ball for the sixth time
Accompanied by his wife Antonella Roccuzzo, his two older children (Thiago and Matthew), his brother Rodrigo and his nephew Agustin, Leo has taken the stage in an elegant black suit of Emporio armani and has received the golden ball from the hands of Luka modric, last winner and absent this year in the list of the 30 finalists.
The Ballon d’Or gala, in pictures
Virgil van Dijk, central of Liverpool, was the second most voted and Cristiano Ronaldo the third in a relationship without Spaniards and with three more Catalans: Frenkie de Jong (11th), Antoine Griezmann (18th) and Marc-André ter Stegen (24º).
This is how we have told Messi’s victory live
Messi, hexacampeon of the Balloon of Gold
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Josep Maria Bartomeu has spearheaded the expedition of Barça to Paris, where he has not traveled Christian Ronaldo as he did not do in the Milan FIFA Gala in September. With the sixth Golden Ball, the Barça He leads the ranking of clubs with the most winners again alone. There are already 12, six of them from Messi, plus those of Luis Suarez (1961), Johan Cruyff (1973, 1974), Hristo Stoichkov (1994), Rivaldo (1999) and Ronaldinho (1999). With 11 Real Madrid figure and with eight, Milan and Juventus.
Precisely the Bulgarian has been one of the protagonists when joining the Barcelona delegation in a ceremony presented by Didier Drogba the day after Messi will sign another recital before him Atlético de Madrid giving the triumph to Barça In the 86th minute, it is the 41st goal in 44 games with 15 assists in addition to the Barça shirt in 2019. Argentina he has added five goals and two decisive passes in 10 games.
2019 GOLDEN BALL RANKING
1. Lionel Messi (ARG / Barça)
2. Virgil van Dijk (HOL / Liverpool)
3. Cristiano Ronaldo (POR / Juventus)
4. Sadio Mané (SEN / Liverpool)
5. Mohamed Salah (EGI / Liverpool)
6. Kylian Mbappé (FRA / Paris Saint-Germain)
7. Alisson (BRA / Liverpool)
8. Robert Lewandowski (POL / Bayern Munich)
9. Bernardo Silva (POR / Manchester City)
10. Riyad Mahrez (ARL / Manchester City)
11. Frenkie de Jong (HOL / Ajax-Barça)
12. Raheem Sterling (ING / Manchester City)
13. Eden Hazard (BEL / Chelsea-R. Madrid)
14. Kevin de Bruyne (BEL / Manchester City)
15. Matthijs de Ligt (HOL / Ajax-Juventus)
16. Sergio Agüero (ARG / Manchester City)
17. Roberto Firmino (BRA / Liverpool)
18. Antoine Griezmann (FRA / At. Madrid-Barça)
19. Trent Alexandre-Arnold (ING / Liverpool)
20. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (GAB / Arsenal)
Dusan Tadic (SER / Ajax)
22. Son Heung-min (COR / Tottenham)
23. Hugo Lloris (FRA / Tottenham)
24. Marc-André ter Stegen (ALE / Barça)
Kalidou Koulibaly (SEN / Naples)
26. Karim Benzema (FRA / R. Madrid)
Georginio Wijnaldum (HOL / Liverpool)
28. Joao Félix (POR / Benfica-At. Madrid)
Marquinhos (BRA / Paris Saint-Germain)
Donny van de Beek (HOL / Ajax)
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