Lionel Messi dethroned his great rival Cristiano Ronaldo. Argentinian succeeded an amazing transformation.
maturity is a relative category, also subjective. Still can probably say quite risk-free, that Lionel Messi has achieved his footballing maturity in 2015, which now brought him his fifth award as World Footballer. With 28 years. Messi is actually only 28!
In this case, one could easily get the impression that this young man from Rosario in Argentina has long impressed the football. So many images have been burned into the minds of fans, so many gates and leg shots, so many fast sprints and perfectly drawn free-kicks, so many childish jubilation scenes. For nine years, Messi is now traveling after Zurich, always in January to find out there whether he is considered the world’s best or the second best world.
Footballer of the Year Messi brings fifth Ballon d’Or
Lionel Messi is the best footballer. The brilliance of the Argentinian is recognized around the globe. The fifth victory at the FIFA World Player Gala is therefore hardly surprising. The German football took no great prices, but took care of emotions.
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He is so constant so around his career. 2015 was a confused, highly complex year for his club, FC Barcelona. It started with “Anoeta”, now a standard term in the world of Barcelonismo. Anoeta is the municipal football stadium in the Basque San Sebastian, venue of Real Sociedad. Barça had to play there right after the Christmas break in January 2015th It was a rainy, cold day. The relationship between the new coach, Luis Enrique, and his main staff was tense. With constant changes Enrique had all maddened. For the game in San Sebastian he decided to leave Messi and Neymar on the bench. Turnover. Enrique wanted to prove that it can be done without them. Barça lost 0:. 1 It was more than a defeat.
After Cristiano Ronaldo “Siiiii!” at the last award anything else
“Anoeta” was became a beacon. The cycle of the golden Barça from the time with Pep Guardiola now seemed finally to be over. Already the year under coach Tata Martino had been sobering. The analysis in the newspapers unsuspected like swan songs, to the leaves showed the sad faces of Messi, Xavi and Iniesta. But then passed in Barcelona several things in rapid succession.
The association initially dismissed Andoni Zubizarreta, the Sports Director, the scapegoat and that did without protest. The decision was therefore to cope because Barcelona through suspension of Fifa anyway allowed to make any transfers for one year. Then, the club began early elections for the presidency in order to placate the members – and led them but only in the summer through, to gain time, and with the thin hope that success would come back by then. Everything seemed to implode, the self-image of the most successful, most exciting football clubs in the recent past.
FIFA World Player of the Year Again and again Ronaldo and Messi
What the audience did not catch: In this time veteran Xavi was behind the scenes to diplomats and mediated between Enrique and Messi. He brought the two to the fact that they ever even talked to each other. “He or I!” Messi is quoted as saying earlier. He indicated that he could sometimes imagine a commitment in another club, in England for example. Now in the social networks he followed the Chelsea and Manchester City.
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