According to a report on December 27, the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) officially announced their selection of the best men's football player of the year. Last year's award belonged to Messi, who was not only the IFFHS Athlete of the Year, but also the best playmaker and top scorer.
This year, Messi left the five major leagues in the second half of the year, but he led Inter Miami from the bottom of the league to the North American League Cup championship in the United States, and his form and data are very good. Despite this, because Messi is not in the top five leagues, and the capital of the World Cup has been counted as last year's scope, Messi did not win the award this time. The player who won the IFPHS Men's Player of the Year this year is Erling Haaland.
Haaland has five titles to his name, including the Champions League, Premier League, Club World Cup, UEFA Super Cup and FA Cup, and he is a Golden Boot contender of the year, scoring 50 goals to date. The second is Kylian Mbappe, who has not won many titles this year, but has scored 52 goals. Defending champion Lionel Messi is only third, for reasons already stated. Although he can't win the award, he won't fall out of the top ten, and it is more reasonable to be in the top three. The rest of the top 10 positions, from fourth to tenth: Rodri, Bellingham, De Bruyne, Kane, B, Vinicius, Lautaro.
Next year, there are also European Championships and Copa America, and Messi will continue to lead Argentina to the Copa America championship. The IFFHS statistics are biased towards the national team, so if Messi leads Argentina well as expected, or directly wins the championship, then he can also continue to compete for the best player in the IFPHS, and even win awards.