Revealing the date of the 2023 Golden Ball award, Haaland and Mbappe are still behind Messi

Goal revealed the nominations for the 2023 Ballon d'Or right after the Champions League final - Man City beat Inter Milan 1-0. Superstar Messi is leading the nomination thanks to the 2022 World Cup, while Erling Haaland is ranked 2nd and 3rd is striker Kylian Mbappe.

Messi currently has a 60% chance of winning the Golden Ball for the 8th time in his career, according to Diario SPORT.

According to Goal : "Haaland had an amazing first season with Man City, winning the treble with the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League. Haaland also scored a total of 52 goals, with 9 assists in 53 matches. Won most of the individual titles in the Premier League such as top scorer, best player, as well as top scorer in the Champions League.

However, Haaland lost quite a lot of points on the journey to the Champions League title with Man City when he did not score in the two semi-finals against Real Madrid and played quite poorly in the final against Inter Milan.

While Messi had a brilliant journey to win the 2022 World Cup, he almost single-handedly led the Argentina team to the throne. Messi scored 7 goals and had 3 assists. In the final match against the French team, this superstar also scored 2 goals and was the inspiration for the "Albiceleste" to win the penalty shootout. Messi only had minus points this season in the PSG shirt, only winning Ligue 1, but ended the season with the parameters still in the top 5 European national championships, which is scoring 21 goals and having 20 assists after 41 matches," Goal commented.

Haaland has an important highlight with the Champions League title

With Mbappe, the star of the French national team and PSG Club also had a brilliant 2022 World Cup when he scored a hat-trick in the final match against the Argentine team, won the top scorer award, but only received the runner-up position. At PSG Club, he only won the Ligue 1 championship and the top scorer award. Therefore, he is considered to be inferior to Messi and Haaland in the race for the 2023 Golden Ball title.

Striker Julian Alvarez (Man City and Argentina), the player who made history as the first player to win the World Cup and the treble in the same season, is also in the top 10 nominees for the 2023 Ballon d'Or. The remaining players are Vinicius, Kevin De Bruyne, Victor Osimhen, Karim Benzema, Kvaratskhelia and Robert Lewandowski.

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