The "seventh" Ballon d'Or... Has Lionel Messi been officially notified

The Portuguese channel "RTP" caused a great controversy during the past hours, after it broadcast news that the star of the French team Paris Saint-Germain, and the captain of the Argentine national team, Lionel Messi, was officially notified that he had won the "seventh" Golden Ball award for the "flea". Arranging his attendance at the ceremony that will be held by France Football magazine, the presenter of the award, on the 29th of this month.

The news did not go unnoticed, as the prestigious French magazine was quick to deny this news, stressing that no player was notified of winning the award, and that "no one knows yet who the owner of the Golden Ball last season was."

It is noteworthy that 53 sports journalists finished voting two weeks ago, and the Spanish newspaper "Marca" a week ago said that one of its sources in the French magazine had leaked to it as a result of the Bayern star, Polish Lewandowski, winning the award.

But France Football's official, Pascal Ferry, who is in charge of everything related to the Ballon d'Or, laughed at these leaks, especially from "Lionel Messi's victory".

It is noteworthy that Messi, despite the poor results he suffered last season with Barcelona, ​​​​has achieved a historic achievement when he won for the first time the Copa America title, which was considered a great boost for the player to win the award.

It is noteworthy that the French magazine has previously limited the competition between big stars such as Liverpool's top scorer Mohamed Salah, Man United sniper Cristiano Ronaldo, as well as French Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema, Saint-Germain striker Kylian Mbappe, his Brazilian colleague Neymar and others.

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