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Messi beats Mbappe, Benzema to Best FIFA Men’s Player award
Argentina captain, Lionel Messi won this year’s Best FIFA Men’s Player award at a ceremony in Paris on Monday.
Messi beat Paris Saint-Germain team-mate Kylian Mbappe and Real Madrid captain, Karim Benzema, to the prize.
The 35-year-old won the 2022 World Cup with his country in December, finally getting to lift the only major honour he hasn’t won in his career.
It’s amazing. It was a tremendous year and it is an honour for me to be here tonight and win this award,” Messi said.
It was Messi’s second FIFA The Best title, with his first coming in 2019.
He has also won a record seven Ballon d’Or awards.
Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim has criticised those making decisions within Marcus Rashford’s camp.
This follows Rashford’s public comments regarding his future at the Premier League club.
The 27-year-old has been dropped by Amorim from the last three match-day squads.
In an interview with Henry Winter, Rashford admitted he is “ready for a new challenge.”
Amorim has now claimed it is not just the player that is at fault for the comments.
“I understand that these players have a lot of people around them, making choices that are not the first idea from the player,” Amorim told Sky Sports.
“I am always here to help Marcus as another player. I have to do what I have to do. They chose to do the interview as it is not just Marcus. I understand that.”
Liverpool winger Mohamed Salah has now overtaken Manchester City’s Erling Haaland in the race to win the Premier League Golden Boot.
Salah scored twice as the Reds beat Tottenham 6-3 in an exciting game on Sunday night.
The two goals took his tally to 15 for the season after 17 fixtures.
The Egyptian now has two more than Haaland, who is stuck on 13 goals.
Chelsea’s talisman, Cole Palmer, is in third place with 10 goals after failing to find the back of the net against Everton.
Alexander Isak (Newcastle United), Bryan Mbeumo (Brentford), and Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest) are all on 10 goals each.
Salah has also overtaken Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka for the most assists, with 11.
Victor Boniface has been ruled out of Bayer Leverkusen’s Bundesliga clash with Freiburg.
Boniface returned to full team training this week after a short injury layoff.
The 23-year-old sustained a muscle injury on international duty last month.
Leverkusen manager, Xabi Alonso stated that the powerful striker has not fully recovered from the injury and will not face Freiburg on Saturday (Saturday).
“Victor Boniface, Amine Adil and Jonas Hoffmann are unavailable for the game due to injuries,” Alonso said during his interaction with the media.
The Nigeria international has scored eight goals in 15 appearances across all competitions for Die Werkself this season.
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