To his 34 years Lionel Messi follows writing his name in the history of the football. It has won it everything to level of clubs, with the FC Barcelona, accumulating a sinfín of records and recognitions in his individual list of winners, but was missing him a battle for winning. Raise a trophy with his selection, Argentina, was his dream and already has fulfilled it. No only this, however. It has reached it being a player determinant, key and in his best version of leader. It is, perhaps, one of the most important attainments of his career, after a very complicated year.
It is adding -more- méritos to achieve his seventh Balloon of Gold and his performance in the Glass America has been the guinda of the cake for a Messi that finished the season 2019-20 in the most complicated moment of his career (with the humiliation in Lisbon) and in the middle of his attempt to abandon the Barça. The beginning of the following course was more difficult, if it wants , but with the arrival of the 2021 despegó and anybody could detain it. It did all the possible for 'raise' to a Barcelona group in crisis and won a title, the Glass of Rey, when it was unthinkable some months before.
It did not achieve the doublet, but finished being the Pichichi of LaLiga, with 30 goals, very move# away of the figures of Robert Lewandowski in the Bundesliga, but with a determination that surpasses all what even had seen of 'The Flea'. With Argentina, has been his more important year, further of the title of the Glass America. It showed to all that it is the big leader of the albiceleste and celebrated his first big trophy for Diego: a triumph that, definitely, devotes it to his 'mentor' in the football and his big idol. For this, put to his country in the shoulders, annotated four goals and added five assistances, figures that turned him into the footballer more determinant of the championship sudamericano.
It will not have the goals of Lewandowski (48 in 40 parties, in all the competitions), but has showed ambition, determination, harp and fist. It has been a Messi different, less goleador but more involved in the game, in the offensive creation and with more influence, in general. It is the profile, definitely, of a player that can be big candidate for the Balloon of Gold of 'L'Instrument', that would be his seventh (of record) the 'The Best' of the FIFA (the second).
Win again the Balloon of Gold would be a hit on the table and the 'statement' that there is not at all that it resist him to Leo. It would expand, besides, his distance with Cristiano Ronaldo (sum five) and the one who also was key for Portugal in the Eurocopa (marked 5 so many) but remained deleted very soon, in front of Belgium in eighth. The luso 'wetted' once less than Messi in League (29, with the Juve) and between all the competitions accumulated 36 goals, two less than 'The Flea' (38).
Other candidates to the Balloon of Gold
The true is that the candidature of Messi to the Balloon of Gold 'promote' by the big disappointments of other players with his national selections, being the concrete case of Kylian Mbappé, Kevin of Bruyne or Cristiano, footballers that did sufficient merit but finished remaining short. They are also, this yes, Jorginho (Italy, Chelsea) or N'Golo Kanté (France, Chelsea) those who say 'present' like candidates to the throne.
It does not be necessary to forget, in no case, of Robert Lewandowski. The prize resisted him the past season because 'L'Instrument' did not award it by the pandemia, and in this course that already has finish added numbers of stars, volviendo to be the big offensive leader of the Bayern Munich with 48 targets to his name. With Poland did not have the same luck, after being deleted in phase of groups, but equally outlines like another of the candidates.