Lionel Messi becomes the first to win individual and team awards at the Laureus World Sports Awards
At the Laureus World Sports Awards on Monday, Argentina, the World Cup champions, took home the Team of the Year honor, while Lionel Messi, 35, was singled out for the Sportsman honor. Messi received two more awards.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica won the Sportswoman award, and Christian Eriksen of Manchester United earned Comeback of the Year for his return to the game after falling on the field while playing for Denmark at Euro 2020.
Carlos Alcaraz, the second-ranked tennis player in the world, received the World Breakthrough of the Year honor at the awards, which were chosen by the Laureus Academy's elite athletes.
The PSG star Messi, who recently started exercising again after getting into trouble with his team for an unauthorized trip to Saudi Arabia, attended the awards ceremony with his wife.
He made history by being the first to receive both individual and team awards in the same calendar year.
Messi, the captain of Argentina, scored seven goals and was awarded the Golden Ball when his team won the 2022 World Cup championship in December.
This is a tremendous honor, Messi remarked, especially since Paris is hosting the Laureus World Sports Awards this year. My family moved here in 2021.I would like to thank all of my teammates, not just from the national team but also from PSG. I am happy to be able to share everything with them since I could not have done it without them.I would like to thank the Laureus Academy since voting for these Awards places them in a special category for athletes like myself and makes them even more meaningful. my sporting achievements in true context.
'This is the first time I have been the sole winner of the Laureus Sportsman of the Year Award and after a year when we finally won another prize we had been chasing for a long time, at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, it's an honour to be able to hold this Laureus Statuette.'
After winning the 100-meter final in July 2022, sprinter Fraser-Pryce became the first athlete to win five gold medals in a single track event at the World Athletics Championships, earning the Sportswoman honor.
"I was thrilled to be nominated alongside such inspiring women athletes," the 36-year-old said during the presentation. "And to win this award, voted for by some of the greatest sportsmen and women of all time, is just amazing."One of the biggest honors of my career is finally holding the Laureus trophy in my hands after being nominated in this category six times.
Eriksen of Manchester United received the Comeback prize for returning to elite football following a heart arrest. arrest during a Euro 2020 match in June 2021.
Alcaraz's rise to the upper echelons of world tennis - in which he won last year's US Open as a 19-year-old - have also been recognised with the Breakthrough trophy.
After winning her first marathon, the renowned Berlin event's 2022 edition, Swiss athlete Catherine Debrunner was given the Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability award.
Eileen Gu, a Chinese freestyle skier of American descent, won two gold medals and a silver at the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022, earning her recognition in the award's Action category.
TeamUp, a program for children who have been displaced by war, received the Laureus Sport for Good award.
It was founded by Robert Lewandowski, who also attended Monday's awards ceremony in Paris with Birgit Van Delft and Ramin Shahzamani, two project representatives. Lewandowski plays for Barcelona and is a native of Poland.
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