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Argentina forward Lionel Messi has won men’s player of the year at the Fifa Best Awards, with Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola claiming the men’s coach prize in London, the BBC reports.
Inter Miami’s Messi edged out City striker Erling Haaland with Paris St-Germain attacker Kylian Mbappe third.
City’s Ederson collected the goalkeeper award ahead of Real Madrid’s Thibaut Courtois and Al Hilal’s Yassine Bounou.
City won the Treble of Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup in 2022-23.
A mix of votes from national team managers and captains, journalists and fans on Fifa’s website – with each counting for 25% – were used to decide the winners.
Messi and Haaland finished on the same amount of points, with Messi getting the award as he had more first-place nominations from national team captains.
Among the national team captains who voted for Messi were Harry Kane, Mbappe, Mohamed Salah, Andy Robertson, Aaron Ramsey and Luka Modric, while Ilkay Gundogan and Casemiro voted for Haaland, as did Messi himself.
An ammunition depot left by the Armenian Armed Forces after the September military operation of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces has been discovered in Karabakh.
According to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, a large number of weapons and ammunition were found in the warehouse – shells for grenade launchers of various types,…
AP: Swiss President Viola Amherd said Monday, during a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Bern, that her country has offered to organize a peace summit that aims to help bring an end to Ukraine’s ongoing war with Russia.
“I confirmed to him that Switzerland is ready to…