Kylian Mbappe posted a message to congratulate his former teammate Lionel Messi after the player won the Golden Ball for the 8th time in his career.

At the awards ceremony in Paris last night, Messi won the Golden Ball for the 8th time in his career. Erling Haaland won the Silver Ball, and Kylian Mbappe received the Bronze Ball. Despite losing to Messi, Mbappe still showed his professionalism.

Mbappe’s post congratulating Messi.

Advertising by DTads

The French striker was the first to congratulate his former teammate on winning this noble award. On his personal Instagram page, Mbappe wrote: “Congratulations Leo on your award. You deserve it,” followed by 4 congratulatory applause icons.

Immediately, Mbappe’s status line received thousands of comments and shares. In the past, Mbappe was rumored to have a broken relationship with Messi. However, the French striker did not respond and only showed it through actions.

In fact, Mbappe also had a quite successful year of competition. This player scored 54 goals and 13 assists after 56 matches at club and national team levels. The above achievement is only inferior to Haaland.

Mbappe played great at the 2022 World Cup, but the French team lacked a little luck to win the throne (Photo: Getty).

Like Messi, Mbappe carried the French team to the 2022 World Cup final . In the final match against Argentina, the striker 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 in 1998 shone brightly when contributing a hat-trick.

Unfortunately, the French team failed after the fateful penalty shootout. Suppose, Les Bleus wins the championship, perhaps Mbappe is the one honored, not Messi.

According to statistics, Mbappe has been on the Golden Ball nomination list for the 6th consecutive time and has all finished in the top 10. Only Messi (15 times), Ronaldo (14 times), Zinedine Zidane and Thierry Henry (both times) 7 times) has more times reached the top 10 at the Golden Ball award than Mbappe.

Now, when Messi and C. Ronaldo are both away from the top of Europe, there is a high possibility that Mbappe will rise to become a strong candidate for the Golden Ball title.