December 15, 2023
ZURICH: Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland are the three finalists for the FIFA 2023 Best Men’s Player award, world football’s governing body said on Thursday. Norwegian Haaland helped Manchester City win three major trophies, the Champions League, English Premier League and FA Cup last season. Messi secured the award in 2022 after guiding Argentina to World Cup victory …
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May 5, 2023
PARIS: Paris St Germain have ordered extra security at the club’s training ground and at the homes of Lionel Messi and Neymar after protests by fans angry over recent results at the Ligue 1 leaders, sources close to the club told AFP on Thursday. Several hundred PSG supporters gathered outside club headquarters on Wednesday evening where they set off smoke flares and …
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February 26, 2023
Just like in the World Cup final, Paris Saint-Germain teammates Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe go up against one another for The Best FIFA Men’s Player prize for 2022 on Monday, with Ballon d’Or Karim Benzema the other contender. The ceremony takes place in Paris, and Messi appears as the favourite to add another individual gong to his collection after leading …
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January 10, 2023
PARIS: Lionel Messi and Paris St-Germain will play a friendly against a select side made up of players from Cristiano Ronaldo’s new club Al Nassr and their Saudi rivals Al Hilal in Riyadh on Jan 19, the French champions announced on Monday. Qatar-owned PSG will travel to Doha on Jan 17 before moving on to the Saudi capital for the …
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July 10, 2021
RIO DE JANEIRO: Former Barcelona team-mates Lionel Messi and Neymar will line up opposite each other in Saturday’s Copa America final looking to end a hoodoo that has also affected some of their countries’ greatest players. Like Brazil’s Pele and Diego Maradona of Argentina before them, neither Messi nor Neymar has ever won the Copa. That statistic will change for …
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