The 28-year-old Argentine had 41.33 per cent of the vote, with Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo (27.76 per cent) second and Barca’s Neymar (7.86 per cent) third. Between them Messi and Ronaldo have won the past eight awards.
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Messi has scored 51 goals in 62 matches in 2015, one goal per 101 minutes. In 2015 he was Oulala’s overall top points scorer by a long way.
“I used to watch Messi and Ronaldo on TV and played with them on the Playstation – now I am close to them”.
Neymar won a treble alongside Messi at Barcelona but had less happy time with Brazil, receiving a four-match global ban after he was sent off during the Copa America. During the consideration period, Ronaldo scored 50 total goals in La Liga and the Champions League to go along with 15 assists.
Meanwhile, Luis Enrique, coach from FC Barcelona, was voted as the FIFA Men’s Football Coach of the Year.
He was joined in shunning arguably the three best players in the world were the captains of Cameroon, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, Uruguay and Vanuatu.
“Our 13 years of hard work were rewarded in the final at the World Cup against Japan, when we won the tournament”.
Lloyd said: “It has been a dream ever since I started with the national team”. Now I’m next to them, but my goal isn’t just to match them on the field, but to be at their level of better.
There was apparently no love lost between the pair at the awards ceremony on Monday night, with it being reported that the Los Blancos star was not keen on speaking to the Blaugrana right back.
English-born Jill Ellis, coach of the American team that won last year’s World Cup in Canada, took the women’s award.
The only players from outside the two Spanish superpowers were Bayern Munich’s Germany global goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, Brazilian centre-back Thiago Silva, who plays for Paris Saint-Germain, and Juventus’s France midfielder Paul Pogba.
Both team captain Phil Younghusband and head coach Thomas Dooley had a say on who wins the trophy and had to select their top three players.
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Barcelona coach Luis Enrique won the world coach of the year award after leading his side to five of the six trophies on offer in 2015, including the Champions League, La Liga and the Copa del Rey.
