Argentina’s World Cup profitable captain Lionel Messi was named the Laureus Sportsman of the Year, whereas dash champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce bagged the highest ladies’s honour on the awards ceremony on Monday.
Messi additionally acquired an award on behalf of the Argentina males’s soccer workforce, who have been named World Team of the Year after their triumph on the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
The 35-year-old Paris St Germain ahead has beforehand gained the award as soon as earlier than, sharing it with Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton in 2020.
Messi additionally turned the primary athlete to scoop each the World Sportsman of the Year Award and the World Team of the Year Award in the identical yr.
“I was looking at the names of the incredible legends that won the Laureus Sportsman of the Year Award before me: Schumacher, Woods, Nadal, Federer, Bolt, Hamilton, Djokovic… it really sunk in what unbelievable company I’m in and what a unique honour this is,” Messi stated.
Jamaican Fraser-Pryce loved an impressive 2022, which included profitable the 100m gold on the World Athletics Championships.
Tennis participant Carlos Alcaraz, who gained the 2022 U.S. Open and rose to primary within the ATP rankings, was named the Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year.
Christian Eriksen, who recovered from the cardiac arrest he suffered on the European Championship in 2021 to return to Premier League soccer with Brentford after which Manchester United earlier than competing on the World Cup with Denmark, acquired the Laureus World Comeback of the Year Award.
The Laureus World Sports Awards nominees are chosen by the worldwide media, whereas the winners are decided by the 71 members of the Laureus World Sports Academy. The awards have been offered yearly since their inception in 2000.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
