This Sunday will bring us two big answers: who will be the new world champion in football, Argentina or France, it will also solve the question of who will receive the Golden Ball, that is, who will be declared the best player of the World Cup in Qatar. There are strong candidates from the camps of both national teams. With the French, it is Kylian Mbappe who is having a great World Cup so far and is at the top of the scoring list with 5 goals. In five matches of the Blues, he was chosen as the Player of the Match three times. Antoine Griezmann, who was the key man on the pitch in the quarter-final win over England, and in last night’s semi-final also has a great World Cup. He has three assists on his account so far. You should never look away from Olivier Giroud, who is another proof that without a proper “number 9″ you cannot reach the top of the world, no matter how hard the coaches try to come up with some new formations, game systems, tactics, etc…The two best players in the world will face off in the biggest game on the planet. The GOAT and the future best player of his generation.They will be competing for the trophy, the Golden Boot, and the Golden Ball. pic.twitter.com/mfaiSfJYzu— R 🇦🇷 (@Lionel30i) December 14, 2022 For Argentina, of course, the candidate is Lionel Messi. Their captain will play the last World Cup match of his career on Sunday. If he wins the cup, he will be, according to many, the world’s greatest footballer of all time. But the Gauchos can also offer Julian Alvarez as a candidate for the Golden Ball, who played a fantastic match against Croatia in the semi-finals, scored two goals, and forced a penalty… With four goals and an assist on his account, Manchester City forward can certainly be a candidate for the most prestigious individual award.Mbappe, meet Messi! Messi, Mbappe! France edge Morocco to book Argentina in the finalBut here comes the tricky part – The Golden ball has become a consolation prize. It turns out that the player from the defeated team in the final has a better chance of winning it than someone who is in the winning team and it’s been like that for the last two and a half decades. It is a bit unbelievable that in the last six World Cups, the Golden Ball was not won by a football player from the championship team! It looks like FIFA makes a decision in advance, not even interested in what will happen in the fight for the trophy. Or maybe just the opposite, here’s something for the defeated, so they can celebrate something (or somebody) too..’I will destroy my friend Hakimi’ announced Mbappe…back in MayFor example, at the World Cup in Russia, France won the title, but Croatia’s Luka Modrić won the Golden Ball. Four years earlier in Brazil, the championship trophy was lifted by Germany, and the award for the best player went to Lionel Messi. There is no doubt that Argentina’s captain would be happier if it were the other way around: to become the world champion and let the Ballon d’Or be awarded to someone else. The World Cup in South Africa was an even more drastic case: no player who played in the final was declared the best player! Spain and the Netherlands fought for the cup, the Red Fury took the title, and the ball went to Diego Forlan, the forward of Uruguay, the semi-finalists of the championship, who also shared the title of the best scorer of the tournament.Messi ecstatic: ‘This is a heavy mental load, we know how to win’The championship in Germany in 2006 ended with the triumph of Italy, when they defeated France on penalties. That was the final with a famous incident when Zinedine Zidane headbutted Marco Materazzi in the chest and received a red card long before the end of the match. However, this was not an obstacle for FIFA to award the French ace the Ballon d’Or. A lot of noise was caused by the decision of the World Football Federation from the World Cup in 2002. The champion of the planet became Brazil, who defeated Germany in the final. That final was also marked by a big blunder by Panzer goalkeeper Oliver Kahn, which decided the game. Kahn recently talked about how he became depressed after that mistake, because it was seen by billions of people. But even so, he won the Ballon d’Or!For the first time in history, France climbed to the football Olympus in 1998, and they were also hosts of the tournament. In the fight for the trophy, they defeated Brazil 3:0. It was a tournament in which the “Phenomenon” Ronaldo shone, and was eventually awarded the Ballon d’Or. But he didn’t exist in the finals. The night before, he had a seizure, and no one knew what was happening to the best football player in the national team. And that was reflected in his game against Les Blues. The last time the world champion gave the official best player of the tournament was at the 1994 World Cup in the USA. Brazil were really the best team then and deservedly won the title, and Romario shone, scoring five goals.The 2022 Golden Ball winner at the World Cup will be _______ 🤔 pic.twitter.com/0rBdX5kSQM— GOAL (@goal) December 13, 2022 The Golden Ball award for the best player of the World Cup was established only in 1982 in cooperation between Adidas and the French newspaper L’Equipe. The first laureate was Paolo Rossi, the goal scorer of Italy, the national team that won the championship in Spain that year. Four years later, everything passed in the name of Diego Maradona and Argentina, and in Italy in 1990, Salvatore Toto Skilacci, the top scorer of the championship, who was the pioneer of the FIFA idea that the Ballon d’Or does not have to go to the best team in the tournament, exploded out of nowhere. because Germany defeated Argentina in the final, and the individual trophy went to Skilacci, ahead of Maradona and Matthaus.##NAJAVA_MECA_6890958##
