Lionel Messi may have left the limelight of European football behind, but he remains a magnet to the game’s biggest awards after being crowned Fifa’s best men’s player for 2023 on Monday.
The selection of the 36-year-old over pretenders to his crown Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappe was a controversial one in the year Messi took what many see as the step down in