As every moment after the choice of The Best awardwhich in the 2025 edition had the French Ousmane Dembélé as winner, FIFA revealed the vote of each of the captains, coaches and journalists designated for each of the National Teams represented, among which is obviously Argentina. And in that detail The election of Lionel Messi and Lionel Scaloni was knownthose in charge of the Albiceleste, who had a different opinion for the category of Best Goalkeeperwhich was left in the hands of the Italian Gianluigi Donnarumma.
On the other hand, La Pulga “hit” the winner in all the categories.. Therefore, for the world champion from Rosario – who for the first time in 18 years was not part of the nominees chosen by the FIFA panel of experts – the best player in the world was Dembélé –second opted for Kylian Mbappé and third for Lamine Yamal-, the best goalkeeper “Gigi” and the best coach Luis Enrique.
Yeah, Messi put Draw Martínez in second placeunlike the world champion coach who placed him in the topahead of the Belgian Thibaut Courtois and the german Manuel Neuer. Of course, Scaloni did not choose the Frenchman among his three preferences.
For the 32-year-old from Mar del Plata, who had won the last two editions as Best Goalkeeper in the World, his final placement is fifth among the ten finalists. got three pointsaccording to FIFA rules, behind Donnarumma (28 points), Courtois (20) and the Brazilian Alisson Becker (Brazil).
Who did Scaloni vote for? In the player option he did not lean towards the winner in any of the three places, since he chose Mbappé, the Spanish Pedri y Yamal.
Among the coaches, the two Argentine representatives did agree when putting first Luis Enriquewhich led PSG to its first Champions League title, and also in those who completed the podium (Hansi Flick y Mikel Arteta), although with inverted positions.
A curiosity also emerged from the revelation of data made by FIFA: the victory of Santiago Montiel in it Premio Puskás 2025 The best goal of the season was, fundamentally, by the election of the panelists of that category.
Another peculiarity? One of the nine members of that special commission is Sergio “Kun” Agüero, paradoxically related to Independiente, the club where he did that spectacular pirouette against Independiente Rivadavia de Mendoza that impressed FIFA president Gianni Infantino and the leader of the experts Arsene Wegner.
The rest of the panelists, who gave it 13 points against the eight that the public vote over the Internet added, were Davor Suker (Croatia), Ruud Van Nistelrooy (Netherlands), Christian Vieri (Italia), Marcos (Brazil), Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast), John Terry (England), Sami Al Jaber (Saudi Arabia) and Mohamed Zidan (Egypt).
