PARIS (Reuters) -Argentina’s Lionel Messi gained the Ballon d’Or award for the perfect participant on the planet for a record-stretching seventh time on Monday, beating Robert Lewandowski and Jorginho to elevate soccer’s most prestigious trophy but once more.
The ahead added to his 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2019 trophies after profitable the Copa America for the primary time together with his nation final July.
“It is unbelievable to be right here once more. Two years in the past I believed it was the final time. Successful the Copa America was key”, Messi stated at Paris’s Theatre du Chatelet.
Messi, who joined Paris St Germain on a free switch from Barcelona in the course of the shut season, collected 613 factors, with Bayern Munich’s Lewandowski, named greatest striker on Monday, getting 580.
Jorginho, who gained the Champions League with Chelsea and the European championship with Italy, ended up third on 460, forward of France’s Karim Benzema and Ngolo Kante in fourth and fifth locations respectively.
(Reporting by Julien Pretot; Enhancing by Clare Fallon)
