Video: Messi dedicates Ballon d’Or to Maradona

Lionel Messi received his report eighth Ballon d’Or this night and devoted it to Argentina and Napoli legend Diego Armando Maradona on what would’ve been his birthday.

The previous Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain star pipped Erling Braut Haaland and Kylian Mbappé to the trophy in Paris this night.

It was largely because of his exploits for Argentina on the 2022 World Cup, bringing the trophy residence for the primary time since Maradona’s crew in 1986.

In the present day would’ve been Maradona’s 63^rd birthday and it appeared becoming for Messi to dedicate the Ballon d’Or to his mentor.

Maradona handed away on the age of 60 in November 2020.

There have been two Napoli gamers within the Ballon d’Or prime 20 this 12 months, as Kvicha Kvaratskhelia took seventeenth place and Victor Osimhen was awarded eighth place.