FIFA World Cup 2022: Argentina’s victorious captain Lionel Messi gained the Golden Ball for the most effective participant of the match after realising his dream of successful the distinguished trophy on Sunday in Qatar.
New Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 19, 2022 00:56 IST
Enzo, Messi, Martinez and Mbappe with the Awards at FIFA World Cup 2022 (Reuters Photo)
By India Today Web Desk: After pulsating motion for practically a month, the FIFA World Cup 2022 got here to an in depth with Lionel Messi and Argentina successful the trophy, beating France in one of the vital thrilling finals within the historical past of the competitors. On Sunday, December 18, Argentina gained their third World Cup trophy, the primary after Diego Maradona’s heroics in 1986.
It was a becoming finale to a shocking World Cup that had loads of thrills with some huge names going out and a few heartwarming tales of Asian and African’s Morocco scripting historical past by reaching the semi-final, a primary in World Cup historical past.
The race for the World Cup awards was alive till the ultimate Sunday of the match in Qatar with greater than a contender for every of the 4 main awards.
FULL LIST OF AWARD WINNERS OF FIFA WORLD CUP 2022Golden Boot – Kylian Mbappe with 8 targets (Top-scorer)
Golden Ball – Lionel Messi with 7 targets and three assists (Best participant)
Golden Shoe – Emi Martinez with 2 penalty shoot-out wins for Argentina (Best goalkeeper)
Young Player Award – Enzo Fernandez of Argentina
Messi additionally grew to become the primary man to win two Golden Ball Awards as he had bagged the honour in 2014 when Argentina misplaced the ultimate to Germany.
Argentina not simply gained the World Cup trophy however 3 of their stars bagged the key honours on Sunday.
MOST GOALS IN FIFA WORLD CUP 2022 Kylian Mbappe (France) – 8
Lionel Messi (Argentina) – 7
Julian Alvarez (Argentina) – 4
Olivier Giroud – 4
Alvaro Morata (Spain) – 3
Bukayo Saka (England) – 3
Cody Gakpo (Netherlands) – 3
Argentina gained their third World Cup title as France have been denied their third. Mbappe scored a hat-trick, solely the 2nd man to take action in a World Cup remaining, nevertheless it was not sufficient as France have been overwhelmed on penalties within the remaining.
Messi took his World Cup tally to 13 and the 35-year-old is unlikely so as to add to it after having introduced that he wouldn’t be there to steer Argentina in 2026. Mbappe, alternatively, took his World Cup tally to 12 – 8 in 2022 and 4 in 2018 — because the France star appears set to interrupt MIroslav Klose’s all-time report of 16 World Cup targets.
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Dec 19, 2022
