FIFA's 2022 best men's player award on best women's player was Spain's Alexia Putellas for a second straight steering Argentina to World Cup glory in an epic final against Mbapp's France in Qatar,  Messi won the best player vote over Mbapp and fellow Frenchman Karim Benzema,  securing the FIFA prize for the seventh time in 14 years. Messi became the first player,  male or female,  to win seven FIFA best player awards,  breaking a tie with six-time best women's player Marta of won the World Cup at his record-equaling fifth attempt."It was a crazy year for me Francisco Trincão Jersey, " Messi said. "I could fulfill my dream after fighting for it for so long. And in the end it happened,  and it was the most beautiful thing of my career. It's the dream of every player,  but very few can achieve it,  so I'm thankful to God for being able to do it."The three players made the final shortlist voted on by a global panel of national team captains and coaches,  selected journalists in each of FIFA's 211 member countries,  plus fans Madrid star Benzema won the more prestigious Ballon d'Or in October ahead of the World Cup. The France forward missed the tournament because of injury. Messi was not on the long list of Ballon d'Or candidates announced in Lewandowski won the FIFA award the last two years,  and Cristiano Ronaldo was left off the 14-player shortlist for the award this year for the first broke a record he shared with Ronaldo by making the men's world best XI for the 16th time. The team included Belgium's Thibaut Courtois,  Morocco's Achraf Hakimi https://www.portugalworldcupshop.com/collections/goncalo-guedes-jersey,  Portugal's Joo Cancelo,  Dutchman Virgil van Dijk,  Belgium's Kevin de Bruyne,  Croatia's Luka Modri,  Brazil's Casemiro,  Norway's Erling Haaland and France's Mbapp and won her award from Alex Morgan of the United States and Beth Mead,  who led England to the European Championship title in ,  Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni was voted FIFA men's coach of the year after leading his team to the World Cup title in women's coach award went to Sarina Wiegman,  who led the England to the title at the Women's European took over Argentina at the end of 2018 on an interim basis António Silva Jersey,  and was widely criticized for lacking experience as he had never coached a professional team.