Humiliating, the difference in votes between Messi, Haaland and Mbappé

Lionel Messi is the best player in the world and for many the greatest of all time. That is what led him to be at the top of world sport for almost 2 decades. It is not for nothing that at the age of 36 he has just won his eighth Ballon d'Or. After the gala organized by France Football at the Chatelet Theater in Paris, the captain of the Argentine National Team returned to the United States and showed off his new award at the Inter Miami, where all the club's youth players were able to enjoy the figure of the first team along with the personal trophy.

After reaching 8 awards, it will be very difficult for another player to achieve it in the history of football. The thing is that no one until now has been dominating world football for as long as he has. Messi competed in the Ballon d'Or with Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappé, mainly. The Rosario forward won the 2022 Qatar World Cup as the figure of the Argentine National Team.

On the other hand, there was the Frenchman who was the top scorer in that same competition, but who did not win any of the most important titles played in the season. And finally there was the Norwegian who did not even play in the World Cup but who won absolutely everything important at the club level with Manchester City. A few days after the gala was held, it was known how the points were distributed among the favorites to win the Ballon d'Or.

The points that Messi took from Haaland and Mbappé

Each voter for the Ballon d'Or has to present a list of the 5 footballers they believe have been the best of the year worldwide. Depending on the position in which each one is placed, they receive more or less points. On this occasion, Leo Messi obtained 462 points in total, while Erling Haaland, the player who came second, received 357. That is, Messi differentiated himself by more than 100 points. In third place was Kylian Mbappé, who obtained 270 points, just over half the number that established Messi as the winner of the Ballon d'Or.