Lionel Messi and Aitana Bonmati declare high prizes at 2023 Ballon d’Or

Lionel Messi and Aitana Bonmati have received the 2023 Ballon d’Or awards.

Messi, 36, captained Argentina to a 2022 World Cup triumph and received the 2022-23 Ligue 1 title with Paris Saint-Germain, securing his record-extending eighth Ballon d’Or on the ceremony in Paris on Monday.

Bonmati, 25, had an excellent 12 months for membership and nation, profitable the 2022-23 Liga F and Champions League with Barcelona and the 2023 World Cup with Spain.

Manchester Metropolis’s Erling Haaland completed second and PSG’s Kylian Mbappe completed third within the males’s voting, whereas Sam Kerr and Salma Paralluelo got here second and third respectively within the girls’s award.

Messi, who joined Inter Miami this summer time from Paris Saint-Germain, had already received the boys’s high particular person prize in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019 and 2021. The previous Barcelona man has been honoured once more after claiming a beforehand elusive World Cup final winter, during which he received the Golden Ball — awarded to the match’s finest participant — after scoring seven objectives in seven video games. Messi stretches additional away from Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, who has received 5 Ballons d’Or however didn’t make the shortlist this 12 months for the primary time since 2003.

Messi additionally grew to become the primary lively Main League Soccer participant to be nominated for the Ballon d’Or since Inter Miami proprietor David Beckham, who made the shortlist in 2007, three months after becoming a member of LA Galaxy from Actual Madrid.

Bonmati additionally received the Golden Ball award on the World Cup earlier this 12 months, in addition to the UEFA Girls’s participant of the 12 months and Champions League participant of the season awards for final season.

Through the 2022-23 marketing campaign, the midfielder scored 19 objectives in 37 matches throughout all competitions for Barcelona as they received their fourth Liga F title in a row and secured a second Champions League triumph. She additionally netted thrice on the World Cup.

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Jude Bellingham, in the meantime, received the Kopa Trophy — the award for the very best under-21 participant. Bellingham excelled in the course of the 2022-23 season for Bundesliga runners-up Borussia Dortmund and England, incomes a transfer to Actual Madrid over the summer time.

Emiliano Martinez received the Yashine Trophy, given to the very best goalkeeper of the season. The Aston Villa stopper received the Golden Glove as Argentina received the World Cup final 12 months.

Although he completed runner-up behind Messi for the primary award, Haaland did declare the Gerd Muller award for his 56 objectives for Manchester Metropolis in 2022-23. Actual Madrid’s Vinicius Junior received the Socrates award for his humanitarian work.

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Ballon d’Or high 25s

Males

1. Lionel Messi (Barcelona & Argentina)
2. Erling Haaland (Manchester Metropolis & Norway)
3. Kylian Mbappe (PSG & France)
4. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester Metropolis & Belgium)
5. Rodri (Manchester Metropolis & Spain)
6. Vinicius Junior (Actual Madrid & Brazil)
7. Julian Alvarez (Manchester Metropolis & Argentina)
8. Victor Osimhen (Napoli & Nigeria)
9. Bernardo Silva (Manchester Metropolis & Portugal)
10. Luka Modric (Actual Madrid & Croatia)
11. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool & Egypt)
12. Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona & Poland)
13. Yassine Bounou (Sevilla, Al Hilal & Morocco)
14. Ilkay Gundogan (Manchester Metropolis, Barcelona & Germany)
15. Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa & Argentina)
16. Karim Benzema (Actual Madrid, Al Ittihad & France)
17. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Napoli & Georgia)
18. Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund, Actual Madrid & England)
19. Harry Kane (Spurs, Bayern Munich & England)
20. Lautaro Martinez (Inter & Argentina)
21. Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid & France)
22. Kim Min-jae (Napoli, Bayern Munich & South Korea)
23. Andre Onana (Inter, Manchester United & Cameroon)
24. Bukayo Saka (Arsenal & England)
25. Josko Gvardiol (RB Leipzig, Manchester Metropolis & Croatia)

Jude Bellingham received the Kopa Trophy and completed 18th within the males’s Ballon d’Or rankings (Picture: Diego Souto/High quality Sport Pictures/Getty Pictures)

Girls

1. Aitana Bonmati (Barcelona & Spain)
2. Sam Kerr (Chelsea & Australia)
3. Salma Paralluelo (Barcelona & Spain)
4. Fridolina Rolfo (Barcelona & Sweden)
5. Mary Earps (Manchester United & England)
6. Olga Carmona (Actual Madrid & Spain)
7. Alexandra Popp (Wolfsburg & Germany)
8. Patricia Guijarro (Barcelona & Spain)
9. Linda Caicedo (Actual Madrid & Colombia)
10. Rachel Daly (Aston Villa & England)
11. Millie Vibrant (Chelsea & England)
12. Hinata Miyazawa (Manchester United, MyNavi Sendai & Japan)
13. Lena Oberdorf (Wolfsburg & Germany)
14. Kadidiatou Diani (PSG & Lyon, France)
15. Amanda Ilestedt (Arsenal, PSG & Sweden)
16. Mapi Leon (Barcelona & Spain)
17. Hayley Raso (Actual Madrid, Manchester Metropolis & Australia)
18. Ewa Pajor (Wolfsburg & Poland)
19. Guro Reiten (Chelsea & Norway)
20. Asisat Oshoala (Barcelona & Nigeria)
21. Alba Redondo (Levante & Spain)
22. Katie McCabe (Arsenal & Republic of Eire
23. Georgia Stanway (Bayern Munich & England)
24. Khadija Shaw (Manchester Metropolis & Jamaica)
25. Sophia Smith (Portland Thorns & U.S.)

Who received the 2022 Ballon d’Or?

Karim Benzema, then of Actual Madrid, received the boys’s award final 12 months, ending forward of Sadio Mane, then of Bayern Munich, and Manchester Metropolis’s Kevin De Bruyne.

Barcelona’s Alexia Putellas received the ladies’s award, with Arsenal’s Beth Mead in second and Chelsea’s Sam Kerr in third.

(Pictures: Getty Pictures)