Real Madrid fans use #AlabaOut on Twitter after David Alaba chooses Lionel Messi over Karim Benzema in Best FIFA Football Awards

David Alaba chose Lionel Messi over Karim Benzema for the FIFA Best Player 2022.

Real Madrid fans use #AlabaOut on Twitter after David Alaba chooses Lionel Messi over Karim Benzema in Best FIFA Football Awards

David Alaba voted for Lionel Messi ahead of Karim Benzema for the FIFA Best Player Award. Image via Twitter

Lionel Messi won The Best FIFA Football Award for the best player in 2022. Real Madrid fans, who expected their star striker Karim Benzema to win were furious with Madrid’s David Alaba after he voted for Lionel Messi ahead of Karim Benzema for the prestigious award. Shortly after the awards were announced fans started tweeting #AlabaOut after the Austrian’s betrayal of Benzema.

The selection process for the FIFA The Best Award includes voting from the captains of the international football teams. David Alaba, who is the captain of Austria’s football team, voted Lionel Messi in the first place, Karim Benzema in second, and French forward Kylian Mbappe in the third. The Austrian did not follow the traditional voting of choosing the promising teammate in the first place.

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As a result of which, frustrated Real Madrid fans took to Twitter and started tweeting with the hashtag, #AlabaOut. They were clearly fumed at the Austrian for not choosing Benzema over Messi, especially when the Austrian defender had earlier hailed Benzema as the best striker in the world.

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Meanwhile, Lionel Messi fans from PSG and even Barcelona thanked the former Bayern Munich player for voting for their idol. Karim Benzema did not win the award in the end and did not even attend the ceremony on February 28 in Paris.

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Lionel Messi won the FIFA Best Player of the Year 2022 award on February 28. Image via Twitter

Paris Saint Germain striker Lionel Messi was awarded the FIFA Best Player of the Year 2022 on Monday in Paris. Messi, who lifted the World Cup in 2022 with Argentina, won the FIFA award for a record 7th time. The Argentine legend beat his club teammate Kylian Mbappe and French forward Karim Benzema to win his first FIFA Best Player award since 2019.

Lionel Messi was delighted after being named the Best Player of 2022, attributing it to winning the World Cup with Argentina. “The World Cup win was the best thing that happened to my career, Thanks to God who helped me to achieve it after so many years of trying.” Messi said. He also received the Golden Ball for his stellar performances in the tournament.

Lionel Messi had a great campaign in 2022, as he won the Ligue 1 title with PSG, scoring 11 goals and providing 15 assists in 34 games in the competition. However, his journey to lift the World Cup in Qatar will remain on the most iconic moments of the Argentine. He captained La Albiceleste to the World Cup victory, scoring seven goals and providing three assists in seven games.

Apart from Messi, Argentine goalkeeper, Emiliano Martinez, beat Thibaut Courtois to win the best goalkeeper award while Argetina’s National Team coach, Lionel Scaloni, beat Carlo Ancelotti to win the best coach award.

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