What is the Super Ballon d’Or and why could Messi win it?

Lionel Messi He came to football to break records and brands that at one time seemed impossible to achieve. We were all able to witness the display given by the Argentine ’10’ at the World Cup 2022. With seven goals and three assists, he becomes the player with the greatest direct participation in a World Cup, like his compatriot Diego Armando Maradona (5 goals and 5 assists in 1986) and Pelé (4 goals and 6 assists in 1970).

The World Cup was the trophy he was missing, the dream he fulfilled and for which, he once said, he was willing to trade all the titles he had. With gold in their hands, many are wondering if Lionel Messi is the best player in history. And many more ask that he be awarded the Super Ballon d’Or

What is the Super Ballon d’Or?

The Super Ballon d’Or is a distinction awarded by the French magazine France Football that only one player has the happiness of having won. This is Alfredo Di Stefano, who was awarded in 1989 for being considered the best footballer of the last thirty years.

In those days, only European players could be nominated for the Ballon d’Or, so Pelé or Maradona couldn’t get any. France Football, brought together in 1989, stars who had lifted the trophy: Alfredo Di Stefano, Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini, Franz Beckenbauer and more. In the end, the winner was the former Real Madrid player. And since then the award has not been given again.

If this award is given again, there seems to be no doubt: Lionel Messi should win the Super Ballon d’Or. With more than fifteen years at the top of world football, seven Ballon d’Ors, four Champions League, ten LaLiga trophies, one Copa América , a World Cup and a total of 41 titles in his entire career.

On an individual level, the numbers are also superlative. With 1003 games over, he accumulates 793 goals and 331 assists. And we cannot forget that dreamy 2012, the year in which the Argentine set an unparalleled record: 91 goals in 69 games, surpassing Gerd Muller’s 40-year-old record (85 goals in a calendar year).