Lionel Messi, who plays for Inter Miami, has been formally recognized as one of the three finalists for the Major League Soccer New Player of the Year award.

Messi has risen to the top of the best players for the 2023 Golden Ball championship. Not content to stop there, he was recently also nominated to the list of the best rookies of the MLS competition, when he transferred from Paris Saint Germain to America to play for David Beckham’s Inter Miami side. Messi is currently the best player in the world for the sport of soccer.

In addition to Messi, Giorgos Giakoumakis of Atlanta United and Eduard Lowen of St. Louis City SC have been put forward as candidates for this significant honor given out by the MLS. This is the honor that the organizers have decided should be given to a player who has previously competed at a professional level and will be making his debut in the MLS in 2023. 

When Lionel Messi announced his intention to leave Paris Saint-Germain and sign with Inter Miami, the club that was last place in the MLS standings at the time, it sent shockwaves across the international football community. Following his move to Miami, Messi and the rest of the pink and black team accomplished a lot of fantastic things. In particular, he contributed 11 goals and 8 assists in order to help Beckham’s club win the very first League Cup trophy in the history of the competition. 

On his own Instagram account, Messi posted the following: “I am proud of everything the team has accomplished this season.” Because to everyone’s hard work, we were able to achieve the following successes: we won the Leagues Cup; we won the first title in the history of Inter Miami CF; we reached the final of the US Open Cup; and we won the fight to qualify for the MLS playoffs despite it coming down to the wire.

Messi is widely regarded as the most deserving candidate for the Golden Ball trophy that will be presented in 2023, and the ceremony will take place in Paris on October 31. It is undeniably deserving in light of what the Barca legend has demonstrated.