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Chinanews.com, Beijing, February 28 (Reporter Li He) In Paris, France, Argentine Leo Messi once again has a history named after him.
At the FIFA 2022 Awards Ceremony held in the early hours of February 28th, Beijing time, Messi, who led his team to win the World Cup in Qatar last year, won the 2022 Best Men's Player Award (World Footballer) without any suspense.
In 2022, Messi led the Argentine team to win the World Cup for the third time in team history. He himself also won the World Cup Golden Globe with 7 goals and 3 assists.
At the club level, Messi also helped Paris Saint-Germain win the Ligue 1 championship and the French Super Cup.
"It's a recognition for the whole team, it's been a crazy year for me. After a lot of hard work, I achieved my dream. It's the best thing that happened to me in my career. Few people can achieve it, And I'm lucky enough," Messi said in his acceptance speech.
Before tonight, Messi was the man with the most awards.
He and Brazilian women's football legend Marta also won the award (Miss Football) 6 times.
In 2019, Messi was elected the World Footballer for the sixth time, becoming the first person in history.
With Messi's winning again, he has also won the FIFA Player of the Year with 7 times, becoming the player who has won the FIFA best of the year in world football, not one of them.
In Eastern and Western civilizations, the number "7" is a magic number.
And Messi also used his seventh coronation, continuing to write this paragraph of romantic fairy tales for adults.
The climax of this story is well known to everyone.
71 days ago, on December 18, 2022, local time in Qatar (early morning of the 19th, Beijing time), Messi held his Golden Globe in his arms, touched him gently, and leaned over for a kiss as he passed the Hercules Cup.
This is the third gold cup in the history of the Argentine team, and it is also the last pearl for Messi to be officially crowned the world champion.
Messi kissed the Hercules Cup.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Cui Nan
From 2006 to 2022, from 19 to 35 years old, from the European continent to the Arabian Peninsula, Messi pursued all the way and finally realized his dream.
The original appearance of life is always difficult to be confirmed in fairy tales, but the preciousness of "Messi's Fairy Tales" is that it is true enough, which also makes it extremely romantic.
At the age of 19, in Germany, immature but immature enough to bring infinite longing; at the age of 23, in South Africa, full of ambitions but finally failed, tasted bitterness at the beginning; at the age of 27, in Brazil, the collapse and unwillingness to encounter a lore at the last moment ; and at the age of 31, in Russia, the one tree is hard to support, and the loss of not knowing where the future lies.
In the 2016 Copa America final, Messi was annoyed after missing a penalty kick.
It was mixed with his self-doubt and abandonment of "I tried many times and worked hard many times, but I really can't lead the team to win" after kicking a penalty kick in the 2016 Centennial America's Cup final , and even announced his withdrawal from the national team at one point, and the embarrassment of leaving the 2019 Copa America with a red card.
If the story of Messi and the Argentine national team ends at any of these moments, this story cannot be called a "fairy tale", but falls into a trajectory roughly similar to the stories that cannot be expected in the world, becoming an impermanent world. Another proof.
This football genius, who has been repeatedly beaten by fate, once again told the world after experiencing the twists and turns of his national team career that persistence and patience are still valuable-even if not everyone can "change their fate against the sky", in many cases, those who can endure If you can stand the test of fate, you will win.
Of course, Messi's persistence did not fail. At the age of 35, he turned the story from cruelty to romance-and finally got what he wanted, and fell asleep with the Hercules Cup in his arms.
Messi went to sleep with the Hercules Cup in his arms.
Image source: Messi's personal social media
After winning the World Cup in Qatar, Messi wrote: "It took me more than 30 years from Grandoli (Messi's first club) to the World Cup in Qatar. In more than 30 years, football has brought me a lot of joy and sorrow. I There was always a dream of being a world champion and I kept trying, even though I knew it might never come true."
At that moment, he was no different from the boy in Rosario, Argentina, who exchanged goals for cookies from the coach.
Running hard, putting the ball in the goal again and again, and waiting for the biscuit.
If not, repeat the process one more time.
Looking back on it this way, the 8-year pursuit of Messi and the Argentine team after the 2014 World Cup final seems to be no longer long; from Maradona to Messi, two generations of "ball kings", several generations of Argentine players The 36-year road of building dreams does not seem to be so tormented.
Messi and the whole team raised the Hercules Cup together.
This night, Messi used another piece of handwriting engraved into history to interpret the heroic dream that is still alive in the real world.
"Many times, failure is part of the road to success. Without failure, there can be no success. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, come on, Argentina." Messi wrote after winning the World Cup.
After winning his seventh World Footballer of the Year, Messi said: The World Cup is the dream of all players, but few people can really realize it. I want to thank God and my family.
The scene of the Argentine people celebrating their victory will remain in my memory forever.
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Thank you too, Leo Messi, for making this fairytale of the football world so real.
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