Lionel Messi named BBC Sports Personality's World Sport Star of the Year

Argentina's World Cup-winning skipper Lionel Messi has been named BBC Sports Personality's World Sport Star of the Year for 2022.

The Paris St-Germain guardant won the tournament's Golden Ball - awarded to the champion subordinate - aft scoring 7 goals astatine his 5th World Cup.

The erstwhile Barcelona prima is wide acknowledged arsenic one of the top footballers of all-time.

Messi scored doubly successful the World Cup last and besides converted a punishment successful the shootout arsenic Argentina bushed holders France 4-2 connected penalties pursuing a thrilling 3-3 draw.

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It meant helium added football's biggest prize to a database of trophies that includes 7 Ballons d'Or titles - awarded to the champion footballer each twelvemonth - 4 Champions Leagues, 1 Copa America, 10 La Liga titles with Barcelona and a Ligue 1 crown with PSG.

In addition, helium has scored a staggering 793 goals successful his career.

"It's everyone's imagination erstwhile they're little. I've been fortunate capable to execute everything and what I was missing, I recovered here," Messi said aft lifting the World Cup connected Sunday.

With Paris St-Germain, Messi won a archetypal French rubric successful April and since the 2022-23 run began successful August, has scored 12 times and provided 14 assists successful 19 nine appearances.

Messi volition crook 39 during the adjacent World Cup successful 2026 and had hinted antecedently the finals successful Qatar would beryllium his last. If it was, it genuinely was the cleanable mode to extremity his planetary vocation pursuing Argentina's Copa America triumph past year.

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He does not program to discontinue from the nationalist squad conscionable yet, saying aft lifting the World Cup that helium would similar "to proceed by experiencing a fewer much games arsenic a satellite champion".

The BBC World Sport Star of the Year is awarded by a sheet to the jock who has achieved the astir notable sporting occurrence connected the satellite signifier during the people of the year.

The 2021 victor was Irish jockey Rachael Blackmore.