[Sports] Ballon d'Or 2023, live: Lionel Messi won his eighth award and continues to build his historical legacy

[PP JuKuzai]

The first time Lionel Messi was on the Ballon d'Or podium he was only 20 years old. It was in 2007, when Kaká won the biggest prize after winning the Champions League with Milan and a young Cristiano Ronaldo was his escort. 16 years later, the man from Rosario is still at the top of world football. At 36 years old and with a legendary World Cup in Qatar behind him, he continues to extend his record to win his eighth! award, corresponding to the 2022/23 season, in which he surpassed players who were more than a decade older than him, such as Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappé. And he did it no less than on the day that Diego Armando Maradona would have turned 63, a wink that the player himself did not miss when accepting the award, a gesture

 

 

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