Without surprises neither 'bombazos', the FIFA has desvelado the three candidates that will contest the 'The Best', prize that recognises to the best footballer of the 2022, unlike the Balloon of Gold that is awarded to the player that more stood out in the season in course. For the maximum organism of the football, the candidates are Lionel Messi, Karim Benzema and Kylian Mbappé.
For the selection, takes mainly in account the performance of the players during the natural year with special attention to the Champions League, won by the Real Madrid of Karim Benzema in May of 2022, and the World-wide, that achieved the Argentinian of Leo Messi after winning to the France of Kylian Mbappé; reason by which is not a surprise that the three appear like the candidates to the prize.
In the case of Messi, supposes a new opportunity to carry the 'The Best', after achieving it in 2019 (surpassing to Go Dijk and Cristiano Ronaldo in the votes), whereas for Benzema and Mbappé is the first occasion that have the possibility to win it. By the World-wide, the Argentinian splits like the big favourite.
The three candidates
'The Flea' achieved the Glass of the World being the anchor of the albiceleste and marking, besides, two goals in the final against France, in addition to the penalti in the batch. It was the title that, surely, finish with the doubts on that it is the best footballer of the history. Mbappé, by his part, was the one who 'sustained' to the PSG in the past season, finishing like the maximum goleador of Tie it 1.
Also it was the one who more goals annotated in the World-wide of Qatar, by in front of Leo Messi, and finished signing a 'hat-trick' historical in the final (two goals in two minutes) to force the extention. Karim Benzema, finally, comes to be the Balloon of Gold 2022 and to guide to the Real Madrid to win the Champions League, League and Supercopa of Spain of the past year, although it finished the 2022 between cottons; a factor that subtracts him possibilities to win the prize.