Lionel Messi: I Will Finish Career With Barcelona

Argentina’s Lionel Messi delivers a speech after winning the FIFA Men’s soccer player of the year 2015 prize during the FIFA Ballon d’Or awarding ceremony at the Kongresshaus in Zurich, Switzerland, Monday, January 11, 2016.

Lionel Messi and Barcelona returned to the top of the Associated Press Global Football 10 on Tuesday. My intention is to terminate my career where I started it in Barcelona.

“It is a very special moment for me to be back here on this stage, winning again another Ballon d’Or after being there in the audience watching Cristiano (Ronaldo) win (last year)”.

The Argentinian dethroned three-time Portuguese victor Cristiano Ronaldo in adding to his four consecutive awards from 2009 to 2012.

“It is incredible that it’s my fifth”.

However, Alves believes Neymar will have to be patient before getting a shot at the prestigious award due to Messi’s dominance.

Messi, who won his fifth Ballon d’Or on Monday night, has now confirmed that he has no plans to join any Premier League club as he would rather retire with the reigning La Liga champions.

And, quoted by as.com, Messi said: “Luis deserves to be here because he is an extraordinary player and he has helped us a lot”.

“It’s a great joy, although we could already guess who would win for everything he did last season”, Enrique said of Messi’s success.

“On our part, there has always been admiration and respect”. U.S. midfielder Carli Lloyd claimed the women’s world player of the year gong.

The 28-year-old Argentine got 41.33 per cent of the votes, with Real Madrid’s Ronaldo garnering 27.76 per cent and Barcelona’s Neymar third with 7.86 per cent of the votes.