Lionel Messi has been named as the IFFHS 2022 Men’s World Best Playmaker.
Messi has won another IFFHS award. After being named the Men’s Best International Goalscorer and the World’s Best Player, it’s the World’s Best Playmaker to complete the hat trick.
The Argentine wins it with 170 points with second place Luka Modric finishing with 115 points.
Argentina’s left-back World Cup winner Nicolás Tagliafico streamed on his Twitch channel with his wife and commented about the national team’s World Cup. The Lyon defender had been very active on the platform during the whole 2022 but stopped to fully concentrate during the tournament.
Here, some of Tagliafico’s comments on his stream:
“We have to ask the coach of Saudi Arabia for the lottery number. The guy said we were going to be champions and he had just beaten us! We love him. I want to send a message to him. Besides, he’s French!
“In the game with Poland, after the second goal, one of them told me how he could in Spanish:
“don’t attack anymore.”
“In the tie against the Netherlands, you don’t know what our heads were with their goal at the last minute. I didn’t see the strength of this group in other teams, it was what made us become champions.”
About the final vs. France:
“The first half we played was crazy, everything we tried went well. We hit the ball with our flip-flops and a pass would go to a teammate.
“It was felt in the atmosphere that the final had to be for us. We were strong.”
It has been a very intense ending of the year for Tagliafico as he has not only been one of the 26 players who lifted the World Cup trophy on December 18 but he also got married to Carolina Calvagni on December 27.
Argentina U20 national team coach Javier Mascherano has named his team for the Sudamericano with Nico Paz of Real Madrid and Máximo Perrone of Velez in the team.
Javier Mascherano has announced his list of 23 players for the Sudamericano which will be played in Colombia in January and February. Several of the players have already taken part in last year’s Toulon tournament and the COTIF tournamemt which was won by Argentina.
Here are the 23 players:
Federico Gomes Gerth (Tigre)
Franco Herrera (Newell’s)
Francisco Gomez (Racing)
Lautaro Di Lollo (Boca Juniors)
Nahuel Genez (Boca Juniors)
Julian Aude (Lanus)
Brian Aguilar (Lanus)
Agustin Giay (San Lorenzo)
Valentin Gomez (Velez)
Francisco Marco (Defensa y Justicia)
Ulises Ciccioli (Rosario Central)
Maximiliano Gonzalez (Lanus)
Máximo Perrone (Velez)
Axel Encinas (River Plate)
Facundo Buonanotte (Brighton)
Gino Infantino (Rosario Central)
Nicolas Paz (Real Madrid)
Ignacio Maestro Puch (Atletico Tucuman)
Alejo Veliz (Rosario Central)
Brian Aguirre (Newell’s)
Santiago Castro (Velez)
Nicolas Vallejo (Independiente)
Julian Fernandez (Velez)
Santiago Castro
Nicolas Vallejo
Julian Fernandez
The U20 Sudamericano tournament which will take place between January 19 and February 12 in Colombia. The team has been drawn in Group A along with hosts Colombia, Brazil, Paraguay and Peru.
The top four teams in the tournament will qualify for the 2023 U20 World Cup in Indonesia while the top three will qualify for next year’s Pan American games, along with that tournament’s host Chile.
The Argentina national team will play two friendly matches in Buenos Aires, both in March.
Argentina will be playing their first matches as World Cup champions at home. According to TyC Sports, both matches will be in March and will both be taking place in Buenos Aires.
No opponent has been named just yet. There were rumors and reports that the World Cup qualifiers could begin in March but that it now appears that it could start in the middle of this year or September.
Lionel Messi has been named as L’Équipe’s “Champion des Champions”, the best male athlete of the year for the second time.
Messi continues to win trophies, even at 35 years of age. The Argentine has been named as the best male athlete of the year by L’Équipe in France.
He won with 808 points, very much ahead of second place Kylian Mbappe who had 381 points and tennis star Rafael Nadal with 285 points.
This is the second time Messi has won the award, having previously won it in 2011 and is the only footballer to have won it twice, excluding the award which is specifically for French athletes. For football players, prior to him was Zinedine Zidane in 1998, Romario in 1994, Diego Maradona in 1986 and Paolo Rossi in 1982.
Lionel Messi has been named as L’Équipe’s “Champion des Champions”, the best male athlete of the year. pic.twitter.com/PDVmi5rVji
— Roy Nemer (@RoyNemer) January 6, 2023
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