Messi is about to receive the 8th Golden Ball in his illustrious career, but there is still an individual title that always eludes him, while Ronaldo has already won it.

The 2023 Golden Ball Award Gala will not take place until October 30 in Paris, but Messi was “leaked” as the winner more than 10 days ago, defeating his strongest rival – Erling Haaland with a goal. third with Man City with 52 goals in 53 matches.

Messi had an excellent year with Argentina, winning the 2022 World Cup. He also had a good season (scoring and assisting) with PSG before deciding to leave Europe to go to the US to play for Inter Miami in the summer.

During his illustrious career, Messi has collected all the most prestigious trophies at the club and national team levels, becoming the person with the most titles (44) in football history.

He also collected countless individual awards, broke one record after another, and is about to receive his unprecedented 8th Golden Ball, but in the end, he still lacks an award that Ronaldo had in 2020 – Feet. Yellow.

This is an award for players over 28 years old and is awarded annually. However, due to some unfortunate fate, the Golden Foot (for the Best Player in a calendar year) still ‘ignores’ Messi’s magical left foot.

In addition to Ronaldo, the winners also include Salah, Luka Modric, Ronaldinho or most recently Lewandowski (2022),…