Goal revealed the nominees for the 2023 Ballon d'Or award right after the Champions League final - Man City beat Inter Milan 1-0. Superstar Messi is leading the nomination thanks to his 2022 World Cup title, while Erling Haaland is in 2nd place and striker Kylian Mbappe is in 3rd place.
Messi currently has a 60% chance of winning the Ballon d'Or for the 8th time in his career, according to Diario SPORT.
According to Goal : "Haaland had an incredible first season with Man City, winning the treble with the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League. Haaland also scored a total of 52 goals, with 9 assists in 53 matches. Won most of the individual titles in the Premier League such as top scorer, best player, as well as top scorer in the Champions League.
However, Haaland lost quite a lot of points on the journey to the Champions League title with Man City when he did not score in the two semi-final matches against Real Madrid and played quite poorly in the final match against Inter Milan.
While Messi had a brilliant journey to win the 2022 World Cup, he almost single-handedly led the Argentina team to the throne. Messi scored 7 goals and had 3 assists. In the final match against the French team, this superstar also scored 2 goals and was the inspiration for the "Albiceleste" to win the penalty shootout. Messi only had minus points this season in the PSG shirt, only winning the Ligue 1 championship, but ended the season with the parameters still in the top 5 European national championships, which is scoring 21 goals and having 20 assists after 41 matches," commented Goal .
Haaland has an important highlight with the Champions League title
With Mbappe, the star of the French national team and PSG Club also had a brilliant 2022 World Cup when he scored a hat-trick in the final match against the Argentine team, won the Golden Boot award, but only received the runner-up position. At PSG Club, he only won the Ligue 1 championship and the Golden Boot award. Therefore, he is considered to be inferior to Messi and Haaland in the race for the 2023 Golden Ball title.
Striker Julian Alvarez (Man City and Argentina), the player who made history as the first player to win the World Cup and the treble in the same season, is also in the top 10 nominees for the 2023 Ballon d'Or. The remaining players are Vinicius, Kevin De Bruyne, Victor Osimhen, Karim Benzema, Kvaratskhelia and Robert Lewandowski.
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