Overcoming heavyweight rival Lionel Messi, striker Erling Haaland was awarded the “Best European Player” award for the 2022-2023 season from the Marca daily newspaper (Spain).
ErlingHaalandhas just been honored at 1st place in the “Los 100” award organized by Marca media group from the list of 100 outstanding players of European football in the 2022-2023 season. This is only the second year, this award has been presented by the famous Spanish sports daily. Last year, Karim Benzema was the recipient of the “Los 100” award for the first time.
115 journalists, former players, coaches and community influencers participated in voting to vote for the 100 most outstanding players of the 2022-2023 season. In addition, a general jury consisting of more than 10,000 readers voted online on Marca.com.
As a result, Man City’s striker Erling Haaland is the winner of the “Los 100” title this season with 5,631 points, more than the two rivals ranked right behind him, respectively Lionel Messi (PSG, 679 points) and Vinicius Junior (Real Madrid). Madrid, 699 points).
The next positions belong to top stars such as Kylian Mbappe (PSG), Kevin de Bruyne (Man City), Rodri (Man City), Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid), Victor Osimhen (Napoli), Ilkay Gundogan (Man) City)…
The Norwegian striker received the prestigious award presented by the representative of the Marca daily at the headquarters of the management team Man City and humbly said: “Thank you all for the individual title. I’ll always try because my ambition is to win every game. I don’t like to talk too much about myself because I don’t see myself as more special than anyone.”
Last season, Erling Haaland scored 52 goals in 53 matches in all competitions, making an important contribution to Man City winning the historic “triple” when winning the English Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League. League.
If you add 9 assists to the goal, “beast” Haaland is also the player involved in the most goals in European football (61 times).
