<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span lang="ar">Argentine star Lionel Messi, captain of the Argentine national team and star of Inter Miami, succeeded in winning a new award in his football career full of titles and achievements, whether with the clubs he played for or his country’s national team.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">Messi won the Best Player in the World award presented by FIFA at the Best 2023 awards ceremony, which was held in London on Monday evening, to retain the award he won in the last edition, 2022.</span> </p><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:400/225;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/613ebfc3-f00f-49b1-adbf-080a9129b993.jpg" alt="Messi in The Best Specialty Award"></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar"><strong>Messi is the best in history</strong></span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">Messi now stands alone at the top of the list of players who have won the Best Player in the World award three times, ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo and Robert Lewandowski, with two each. The Argentine star also has the Ballon d'Or 8 times to his credit, making him the most winner of the award in history as well.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">Messi missed the FIFA ceremony held in London and won the award for the third time after 2019 and 2022, becoming the most decorated after surpassing Ronaldo and Lewandowski, winners of the award on two occasions each.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">Messi outperformed the Norwegian Erling Haaland, the English Manchester City striker, and the Frenchman Kylian Mbappe, the French winger of Paris Saint-Germain.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The <a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span lang="ar">Argentine</span></a> <span lang="ar">son also came</span> <span lang="ar">at the top of the best ideal formation in the world for the year 2023, which was announced by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) during the ceremony, along with the Frenchman Kylian Mbappe, the Paris Saint-Germain striker, the Norwegian Erling Haaland, and the Brazilian Vinicius Junior, the Real Madrid winger.</span> </p><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:750/521;" alt="Messi in The Best Specialty Award" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/59d8cdd2-6331-4366-b123-1528cfade874.jpg" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar"><strong>Messi wins The Best</strong></span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) confirmed that Argentine star</span> <a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span lang="ar">Lionel Messi</span></a> <span lang="ar">, captain of Inter Miami, was crowned The Best Player in the World at The Best Awards for 2023, after a fierce competition with Norwegian Erling Haaland, Manchester City star.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">FIFA stated in its statement on its official website that the Argentine star was awarded the award again after another qualifying period in which he dazzled football fans around the world, as he took first place in the voting, ahead of the finalists Erlen Haaland and Kylian Mbappe.</span> </p><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:750/530;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/201ffb29-0613-4979-9ec0-1bf9fc2d0a6b.jpg" alt="Messi in The Best Specialty Award"></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar"><strong>The Best Award</strong></span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">He added that Messi, the 2022 World Cup champion, is equal to Norwegian Erling Haaland with a number of points of 48 points, but the Argentine star won the award due to his presence in first place during the voting process (first place out of the three choices for each voter) for a greater number of times than Haaland, based on the rules. The award is in the event of an equal number of points (paragraph No. 12), while Mbappe came in third place with 35 points.</span></p>