2023-05-08 18:55:41
He arrived around 6:30 p.m., accompanied by his wife Antonella Roccuzzo. Lionel Messi is present at the Laureus World Sports Awards ceremony, organized this Monday evening in Paris.
The Argentinian is nominated for the Sportsman of the Year award, alongside his teammate Kylian Mbappé, tennis player Rafael Nadal, F1 driver Max Verstappen – crowned in 2022 -, NBA champion basketball player Stephen Curry and pole vaulter Armand Duplantis, who improved his near world record by crossing a bar at 6.22 m last February in Auvergne. Messi has already won this award in 2020, tied with Lewis Hamilton. It was then a first for a football player in this category.
The Laureus Awards have been awarded since 2000, and are taking place in Paris for the first time this year. The name of the winner of the title of best sportsman of the year will be revealed in the evening, as well as that of seven other winners. Among the award-winning categories, we find in particular that of the sportswoman of the year, the team of the year, in which the French rugby team is notably named, the revelation of the year or the “come- back” of the year.
Suspended by the capital club, for having traveled to Saudi Arabia at the beginning of last week, without the agreement of its leaders, Messi also found his teammates in training on Monday morning.
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