It is this Monday evening that we will know the name of the Ballon d’Or 2021, but Lionel Messi is now the favorite. The Argentinian PSG player could surprise fans.
Rumors on the name of the winner of the Ballon d’Or have multiplied in recent days, and all were in the same direction, namely that it is Lionel Messi who will be crowned in the coming hours at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Sunday evening, Marca specified that Karim Benzema knew he would not be the winner, the Spanish media confirming that this prize was intended for the Pulga. An info that Sport and Mundo Deportivo confirm in a nutshell, believing that Messi owed this price more to his victory with Argentina in the Copa America and his performances with FC Barcelona than with Paris Saint-Germain. The departure of the 34-year-old still struggling to get past Catalonia. Even if this seventh Ballon d’Or will probably be highly contested, Robert Lewandowski and Karim Benzema being two fine rivals, the native of Rosario will become the first footballer to win this award over three different decades (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015 , 2019 and 2021?).
Lionel Messi will enter football legend a little more
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If this victory is confirmed for Lionel Messi, and there is almost no doubt, the sources being numerous in this direction, Paris Saint-Germain will be rubbing their hands, because if PSG has already seen one of its players win the Ballon d’Or, Georges Weah in 1995, Mister Georges had already signed to AC Milan when France-Football awarded him the trophy at the end of the year. La Pulga will therefore allow to have a real title Ballon d’Or in its squad, which is not nothing, and Leo Messi could even give a big surprise to the supporters of the club of the capital on the occasion of the match. against OGC Nice on Wednesday night at Parc des Princes. ” Wednesday, before the match against Nice, the public of the Park could well see the Argentinian number 30 disembarking with an object a little bigger than a simple calabash of mate in their hands … », Announces the Ile-de-France daily.
As he did at Barça in his previous six titles, Lionel Messi could book his first official outing with the trophy in front of his supporters. And this time, it is those of Paris Saint-Germain who would benefit from it. What to turn the knife even more in the wound on the side of Barcelona, and silence those who said that the future seven-time Ballon d’Or would never win this prize again by deciding to leave the Catalan club. To have a final answer, meet in Paris at 8:30 p.m. at the Châtelet, but the suspense is meager.
