Anwar Ibrahim (Cairo)
It seems that the legendary Argentine star Lionel Messi, the player of Paris Saint-Germain and the “Tango” team, is on his way to winning the “Best” award given by the International Federation of Football Associations to the best player in the world, because the time span covered by this award extends over a full calendar year and a few months, not a season. Spherically, as was the case with the Golden Ball award awarded by the French magazine France Football, which was won two months ago by the French star Karim Benzema, following he managed to lead his club Real Madrid deservedly to win the European Champions League «Champions League», and the Spanish League «La Liga».
And if the Golden Ball award was not taken into account when selecting the last World Cup tournament in Qatar, then the FIFA “Best” award includes this first world championship within its time space that extends from August 8, 2021 to December 18, 2022, and accordingly The players who shone in the Qatar World Cup benefit from it, led by Argentine star Lionel Messi and young French star Kylian Mbappe, both of whom have already reached the final, and with them another Frenchman, Karim Benzema.
This difference in “timing” and “time space” makes “Al-Barghout” the one with the greatest chance of winning it, because he led his country to win the World Cup and won the title of best player in it, completely erasing from the minds the lackluster performance that appeared on him in his first season with his Parisian club, Which completely deprived him of the possibility of competing with Karim Benzema for the last Golden Ball award. While he has now become a strong competitor to Mbappe, the top scorer in the World Cup, and Karim Benzema, who won the Golden Ball.
Benzema’s position in this award is weakened by the fact that he did not participate in any match in the last World Cup, and withdrew from his country’s national team camp due to injury, and his achievement stopped at winning the Liga and Champions League only, while Messi faces fierce competition for the award, from Kylian Mbappe, who in turn starred remarkably in “Qatar World Cup” and he won the title of top scorer with 8 goals, although most European football experts believe that Lionel Messi, who was crowned with the World Cup, is the most deserving of it.