Like every moment after the choice for the best awardwhich had the French version in the 2025 edition Ousmane Dembélé as the winner, FIFA announced the vote of all captains, coaches and journalists intended for each of the national teams represented, including of course Argentina. And in this detail The choice of Lionel Messi and Lionel Scaloni was well knownthose in charge of the Albiceleste, the a different opinion for the category of Best goalkeeperwhich remained in the hands of the Italians Gianluigi Donnarumma.
The thing is, the winner was “correct” in all categories on Flea’s side.. Therefore, the world champion from Rosario – who for the first time in 18 years was not among the nominees of the FIFA expert jury – was the best player in the world Dembele –Second chose Kylian Mbappe and thirdly for Lamine Yamal-, the best goalkeeper “Gigi” and the best coach Luis Enrique.
Yes, Messi relegated Draw Martínez to second placeunlike the world champion coach who put him in the World Cup Greatin front of the Belgian Thibaut Courtois and the German Manuel Neuer. Clear, Scaloni did not choose the Frenchman among his three preferences.
For the 32-year-old from Mar del Plata, who won the last two editions as the best goalkeeper in the world, his most recent placing is fifth among the ten finalists. receive three pointsaccording to FIFA rules, behind Donnarumma (28 points), Courtois (20) and the Brazilian Alisson Becker (Brazil).
Who did Scaloni vote for? In the player option, he did not tend to win in any of the three places because he chose Mbappé, the Spanish Pedri And Jamal.
Among the coaches, the two Argentine representatives agreed on first place Luis Enriquewho led PSG to their first Champions League title, and also among those who completed the podium (Hansi Flick And Mikel Arteta), but with reversed positions.
A curiosity also emerged from FIFA’s data revelation: the victory of Santiago Montiel in it Puskás Prize 2025 The best goal of the season was basically: by choosing the panelists in this category.
Another special feature? One of the nine members of this special commission is Sergio “Kun” Agüero, paradoxically related to Independiente, the club where he made that spectacular pirouette against Independiente Rivadavia de Mendoza that impressed FIFA President Gianni Infantino and pundit chief Arsene Wegner.
The rest of the panelists, who gave him 13 points compared to the eight points added by the public vote via the Internet, voted Before that, Suker (Croatia), Ruud Van Nistelrooy (Netherlands), Christian Vieri (Italy), Mark (Brazil), Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast), John Terry (England), Sami Al Jaber (Saudi Arabia) and Mohamed Zidan (Egypt).
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