Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi: Messi again best footballer, wins Ballon d'Or for a record seventh time
Argentina's Lionel Messi has won the Ballon d'Or award for the best footballer for a record seventh time. Whereas in the women's section, Alexia Putelas won the award on the basis of her excellent performances for Barcelona and Spain.
Sunil Shukla 
Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi: Lionel Messi of Argentina won the Ballon d'Or award for the best footballer for the record seventh time. The 34-year-old star played brilliantly in the last season with Barcelona and won his first international title with Argentina.
In fact, Argentina won the Copa America title in July on the basis of Messi's brilliant performance. Messi said after winning the award, 'I am very happy. It feels good to keep fighting for new titles.
He said, 'I don't know how many years are left, but hopefully there is a lot of time. I want to thank all my fellow players in Barcelona and Argentina.
Let us inform you that Messi had 613 points, while Poland striker Robert Lewandowski came second with 580 points.
Messi had earlier received this prestigious award in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019. His formidable rival Cristiano Ronaldo has been the winner so far five times (2008, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017).
At the same time, in the women's category, Alexia Putelas won the award on the basis of her excellent performances for Barcelona and Spain. Alexia has become the third female footballer to do so.
Let us tell you that the Ballon d'Or Award is given by the Football Magazine of France, it is being given since the year 1956. This award has a lot of recognition in the football world. This award was not given in the year 2020 due to the Corona crisis.
