Lionel Messi won the Best award for the best footballer in the world for the first time

Messi was chosen by FIFA as the best footballer of the 2018/19 season and stayed with The Best the only individual prize he had not won. The Barcelona star prevailed over Virgil van Dijk and Cristiano Ronaldo, who did not travel to Milan.

The Argentine forward did not have his best season, but at the individual level he obtained his sixth Golden Boot, thanks to his 36 goals, with which he returned to become the player who scored the most goals in Europe in the 2018/2019 last season. At the group level, with Barcelona he won La Liga, but lost the Champions League in the semifinals against Liverpool and fell in the final of the Copa del Rey against Valencia. In addition, with the Argentine team he could not conquer the Copa América, contest in which he barely became an occasion.