FIFA The Best: Neymar, Vinicius, Benzema - Check who Lionel Messi, Mohamed Salah, Robert Lewandowski voted as The Best Player in FIFA Awards

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FIFA The Best: Neymar, Vinicius, Benzema – Check who Lionel Messi, Mohamed Salah, Robert Lewandowski voted as The Best Player in FIFA Awards

Moumita Dutta

1 year ago

FIFA The Best: FIFA Awards 2023 – After ending the year with the most coveted World Cup in hand, it was expected that the magician Lionel Messi would win FIFA The Best player award. However, the final scoring points of the top 3 players were quite close. As it’s counted as per the votes by […]

FIFA The Best: FIFA Awards 2023 – After ending the year with the most coveted World Cup in hand, it was expected that the magician Lionel Messi would win FIFA The Best player award. However, the final scoring points of the top 3 players were quite close. As it’s counted as per the votes by players and coaches, it’s always interesting to see which player voted for whom for the best player award. Follow FIFA awards 2023 Updates on InsideSport.IN

FIFA The Best: Neymar, Vinicius, Benzema – Check who Lionel Messi, Mohamed Salah, Robert Lewandowski voted as The Best Player in FIFA Awards

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FIFA selects a number of national team players and coaches to vote for previous year’s best coach and players of the world. This year’s vote was quite interesting as Mohamed Salah gave the strangest votes, Cristiano Ronaldo didn’t come to vote at all, and Pepe voted in his place.

Mohamed Salah voted for Vinicius Jr. as his first choice followed by Kevin De Bruyne and Achraf Hakimi. Pepe voted for Kylian Mbappe as his first choice. Whereas, when everyone expected the Austrian captain David Alaba to vote Karim Benzema as his first choice, it was a surprise to see that he voted for Lionel Messi as the first choice.

FIFA The Best: Neymar, Vinicius, Benzema – Check who Lionel Messi, Mohamed Salah, Robert Lewandowski voted as The Best Player in FIFA Awards

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When asked about it, he said “The Austrian national team vote for this award as a team, not me alone. Everyone in the team council is able to vote and that’s how it’s decided. Everyone knows, especially Karim, how much I admire him and his performances and I have often said that for me he is the best striker in the world, and that is still the case. Without doubt.”

David Alaba has explained his FIFA Best Award vote for Lionel Messi after suffering racist abuse 🤔#FIFABestAwards #GetSporty pic.twitter.com/p4C41puU0M

— SportyBet (@SportyBet) February 28, 2023

Votes by players:

Who Voted	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3
Lionel Messi	Neymar	Kylian Mbappe	Karim Benzema
Robert Lewandowski	Lionel Messi	Kylian Mbappe	Luka Modric
Mohamed Salah	Vinicius Junior	Kevin De Buyne	Achraf Hakimi
David Alaba	Lionel Messi	Karim Benzema	Kylian Mbappe
Thiago Silva	Neymar	Lionel Messi	Karim Benzema
Luka Modric	Karim Benzema	Lionel Messi	Kylian Mbappe
Virgil Van Dijk	Lionel Messi	Mohamed Salah	Kevin De Bruyne
Hugo Lloris	Kylian Mbappe	Karim Benzema	Lionel Messi
Sergio Busquets	Lionel Messi	Robert Lewandowski	Karim Benzema
Harry Kane	Lionel Messi	Sadio Mane	Karim Benzema