Argentina’s Lionel Messi won the Golden Ball award, Argentina’s Enzo Fernandez won the Best Young Player award, Argentina’s Emiliano Martinez won the Golden Glove award and France’s Kylian Mbappe won the Golden Boot award. , Photo Credit: Reuters
Lionel Messi won the Golden Ball for the best player at this year’s World Cup after leading Argentina to victory in the final against France on Sunday.
Messi scored twice in the final in Doha, taking his goals tally in the tournament to seven, and also scored in the shoot-out as Argentina beat France on penalties after a 3–3 draw after extra time. Defeated by -2.
Kylian Mbappe came second to Messi for that award, but won the Golden Boot for the tournament’s top scorer with eight goals.
Argentina’s Emiliano Martinez won the Golden Glove award while Enzo Fernandez won the Best Young Player award.
Argentina won the World Cup for the third time after defeating France 4–2 in a penalty shoot-out.
Argentina captain Lionel Messi scored twice and France striker Kylian Mbappe scored a hat-trick to end a thrilling World Cup final 3-3 after extra time at the Lusail Stadium.
The World Cup final between Argentina and France went into extra time on Sunday after France trailed by two goals to make it 2-2.
Lionel Messi struck a penalty in the 23rd minute and Angel Di Maria struck back for Argentina in a fine second half, but defending champions France came back in the second half as Kylian Mbappe converted an 80th-minute penalty and a minute later acrobatic Equalized with Volley.