Leo Messi against Haaland and De Bruyne for UEFA’s Best Player of the Year

The UEFA gave to know this Thursday to the applicants that compete by the title of Player of the Year of the UEFA in the season 2022/23. Between the elected finds again Lionel Messi, the one who does few weeks left the European football for the first time to get dressed with the T-shirt of the Inter Miami in the United States. The Argentinian will compete by which could be his last European prize with Erling Haaland and Kevin Of Bruyne, both footballers of the Manchester City.

The three players were designated after a vote effected by the trainers of teams participants the past season in the phase of groups of the three glasses of Europe (League of Champions, Europe League and Conference League), by the seleccionadores of the 55 countries affiliated to the UEFA and by a signpost of European journalists. Each voter had to choose three players between a list of 10, in which besides it has not gone in Vinicius Jr, in spite of a season more than correct between League and Champions.

Messi splits like favourite, but will have a very important competitor

Regarding the options of Leo to carry the recognition of the UEFA, will arrive after a season something agridulce with Paris Saint-Germain, where annotated 21 goals and gave 20 assistances in 41 apparitions, but carrying only the title of Tie it 1 and suffering an early elimination in the Champions, although with the joy to have consecrated like champion of the world in Qatar 2022. And it is that although the prize was cataloged like year, in this edition will take in account all the past season and no only the year to level calendar.

Already of the side of the footballers of the City, and especially to Haaland like direct competitor of Leo, endorses them the triplete achieved by the club mancuniano, with the first League of Champions of the history of the celestial entity. The goleador Norwegian besides broke all the records of goals of the English football in his first season, although it was not present in Qatar with his selection.

The others players that received votes were the new signing of the FC Barcelona, the German Ilkay Gundogan (Manchester City/Barcelona, 129 points), the Spanish Rodri Hernández (Manchester City, 110), the French Kylian Mbappe (PSG, 82), the Croat Luka Modric (Real Madrid, 33), the also Croatian Marcelo Brozovic (Inter/To the-Nassr, 20), the English Declan Crimp (West Ham/Arsenal, 14), the Argentinian Alexis Mac Allister (Brighton/Liverpool, 12) and the Spanish Jesús Navas (Seville, 6).

All smart for the first big night of the new Champions

The decision will know during the draw for the composition of the groups of the next Champions, in which they will compete five Spanish teams: FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, Athletic of Madrid, Real Sociedad and Seville. A gala that will celebrate on 31 August in the Grimaldi Forum of Monaco and that will give to know to the new better player and also to the best trainer of Europe, sucediendo to the madridistas Karim Benzema and Carlo Ancelotti.