BALLON D'OR 2023 - THE OFFICIAL LIST OF NOMINEES 

Messi's greatest comeback story. Considered stopping for the national team but proceeded to win the Copa against Brazil (5x world champion), the Finalissima against Italy (current European champion) and the World Cup against France (world champion). Haaland? Scored almost nothing outside the box. He had 0 goals and 0 assists in Man City's semi-finals and finals. In the WC, Messi was involved in nearly every goal for Argentina. He scored 7 goals and as a 35 year old, he made Gvardiol, Aké and van Dijk look like children. He showed up vs Mexico, the Netherlands, Croatia, Australia and France. Haaland is phenomenal but is he a big game player? What seperates GOATS from Legends is their ability to show up in big games. In semi-finals and finals whether if that's the local league cup, the World Cup or the UCL. He's nowhere near the level of Messi and Ronaldo. I rate Mbappe higher than Haaland, purely for the fact that these 3 can score free kicks and can make ridiculous solo runs to turn around matches. Man City is the embodiment of modern day football. Its a system and they aim to provide Haaland. There is no room for fantasy dribbles or entertainers like Neymar. Its modern day football and it sometimes feels like dead football even though its simply a pure masterclass from Guardiola in the tactician department. Messi, Ronaldo and Mbappe on the other hand, score goals from far away, make insane runs by themselves to complete the most insane comebacks. I'm a Dutchie and Madridista. My hate for Messi at times was at its maximum but even I know Messi deserves it. His own countrymen and pundits criticized him. Saying that you can't be the goat without a world cup and that he'll never lace the shoes of Maradona. He proved everyone wrong and this wasn't even his prime. He showed up and when he was given the ball he improvised. He did not solely rely on his teammates to give him the best ball in the box. Matthäus won it in 1990 for WC. Stoichkov won it in 1994 for WC performance. Zidane won it in 1998 for WC. R9 won it in 2002 for WC. Cannavaro won it in 2006 for WC. Modric won it in 2018 for WC but watch them rob Messi of his legendary World Cup performances. Fact is that City could've won 2 trophies out of their incredible treble run without Haaland and with Alvarez, probably the UCL as well. You can even debate that KDB was more important than Haaland. Argentina won but not because of the team alone. They won because it was one man that uplifted the spirit of an entire nation, one man that was so respected that other players waited till he walked out of the tunnel and unto the field, one man that was so important that his teammates turned into prime Pepe when he was touched by opponents. Argentina would not have won all these cups without Messi. City won 5 out of the last 6 PL titles. Messi gave Argentina something, only Maradona could give them. He proved the entire world that in every generation, there are goats (Messi and Ronaldo in ours) who are able to win that tournament.

Winner this year has to be Messi. Finally, he won the World Cup to confirm his place as the best of all time.

Modric is just insane with 37 of age

Eight ballon d'or incoming

Messi will win ballondor 23. No doubt at all. 8th coming

🏆Super Ballon d'or to Messi 👑⚽️🇦🇷🏆

Cr7

. Messi vs Haaland Messi 👽 Haaland🔥 Matches- 51 54 Goals- 42 56 Assists- 26 9 G+A 68 65 Trophy Messi Haaland World Cup UCL Ligue 1 PL French Super Cup FA Cup Individual Messi Haaland MOTM- 29 6 WC Golden ball UEFA Men's Best WC Silver Boot Golden Boot Fifa Men's Best Player UCL Golden Boot Laureus Award IFFHS World Best Player IFFHS Best Playmaker. IFFHS Best Goal Scorer. Messi will win his 8th Ballon D'or.

Messi

Halaand

Ballon Dor is NOT about scoring goals!! It is about performance of a player and his contribution to the succes!! The Golden boot is for the top scorer, so Halaand should win it! BUT the Ballon Dor is for Messi, cause his contribution in the Finals, Semifinals, tournaments and the succes at his club or national team were FAR BETTER THEN Halaand…. Those who don’t agree, either you are a Ronaldo fan or just Blind in the Football world! Absolute NO knowledge!!!! …. LM 8 Loading for the GOAT 🐐 ❤

Musiala did lead his club to victory in the bundesliga. And Bellingham basically carried BVB through to the finals...and not to mention how he outstanding in Real Madrid right now

Messi hope win ❤🎉

Messi hope Ballon d'or to win

MY TOP 10 1. Messi 2. Haaland 3. Alvarez 4. De Bruyne 5. Mbappe 6. Vinicius Jr 7. Osimhen 8. Kvaratshkelia 9. Musiala 10. Rodri

No matter what Lionel Messi

I am proud to have a player that represents my country MOROCCO / YASSINE Bounou🎉🎉

Leoooi

Victor Osimhen

Leo is the only player who deserves Ballon D'or

The GOAT no 10 Lio love from India 🇮🇳🙏

King Messi deserve to be winner because football is him

In my opinion ronaldo should be there and rashford because rashford and saka were both amazing last season, but only saka got a nominated

Top 5: 1) Messi, 2) Haaland, 3) Rodri, 4) Modric, 5) Mbappe

#LM8 🇦🇷🐐

Alvarez 🏆🏆🏆🏆

Le 8 ème Ballon d'Or du GOAT Léo Messi en téléchargement 🎉❤⚽🐐🐐🔥

Kvaratskhelia 🙏🏼

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Lewandoski has to win this one even when he won the U.C.L bundesliga super cup he never won

Haaland won't win ballon dor cuz he's a tap in merchant, if he does, this award should be renamed to Tapin dor

MESSI 💯🇦🇷

03:30 is the time for which you are watching the video

Messi❤

Bro Salah was the 3nd Most scorer last season with 46 G/a in 49 games in a bad Liverpool he scores so often he is so underrated

Antoine Griezmann 🎉

Luka Modrić still on it ❤📈

Messi deserved that

Messi ❤🎉😊

❤❤❤Messi is the best player in the world ❤ 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩

Victor is definitely gonna get Afcon best player

Julian Alvarez ❤🎉

Only Leo..............

No Bruno or Rashford 🤔

Martinez

Its sad that ronaldo wasn't nominated in the ballon d'or

Where is Ronaldu

Uefa fifa chris

world cup do not count in this 2023 mens best player award

La liga, Copa, and WC in a short span of time.

Messi 💪💪💪

Uefa Fifa Chris

Lionel meessi ❤❤❤❤my king 👑

Griezmann is on the list ❤️

#LIONEL MESSI IS THE BEST 1000%👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Heung Min Son ??

Lionel messi eighth ballon d’or

Mbappe #1 numba wang

Of course is Lionel Messi with great facts👑🏆⚽

Messi, haaland, kdb , Mbappa and Rodri ❤❤❤❤❤❤

No way, Haaland shouldn’t win. It should be Messi , if not Messi, Julian Alvarez, who won every thing with Man city and World Cup with Argentina should win. He scored 4 non penalty goals in World Cup .

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Only Leo

Imagine Julian Alvzrez win balon dor....😂😂😂😂😂😂 Messi should win it. He tried 5 times to win the wc... but his WC winning squad was not born yet.........won it on his 5th try😮

Haaland

Messi ❤❤ win 🎉

Pourquoi les noms en anglais ??

kvaraa ❤

Jelas messi dia pemenang segalanya termasuk piala dunia

VICTOR OSIMEN !!!!

Where is rashford 😢😢

Lionel messi❤

If we look trophies wish,,, alvarez😂😂win everything

Messi ❤❤❤

8m very surprised there is no Rashford???

Cant bellieve Bono gor nominated, he is a goalkeeper

Haaland ,a chance

Haaland🔥

Meesi is gonna get his 8th and probably his last ballon dor haaland can probably win it next year

Ronaldo not in top 30 after like 2 decades

Messi must win it. He deserves it more than anybody. ❤🐐🇦🇷♾️

Why waste your time naming all the players while the whole world knows what Erling Halaand has done???? this wild goose chase

Messi.

when will it be?

Messi is the best player in the world.. he is the one

No cr7,, why ??

Haaland or Kevin de bruyne

MESSI.

l thing messi is the best

Oshimen ❤

KIM MIN JAE. !!!!!!

Alvarez or Halaand

I'm a Huge Messi supporter But I do think that at least in this list Ronaldo's name should have been listed :/

It's only messi

Messi win Ballon d'or ❤❤

Messi>

KYLIAN MBAPPE

The Ronaldo u guys are shouting is not even in the list😂

Were is Ronldo

Messi10🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷 will win it