Messi & Argentina world cup team win Laureus awards

Lionel Messi and his world cup-winning Argentina scored a double by being named sportsman and team of the year at the Laureus world sports awards.

Messi captained Argentina, scored seven times and won the golden ball as his country won the 2022 world cup in Qatar in December.

He is the first athlete to win the team and individual awards in the same year.

Sportswoman of the year went to Jamaican sprinter shelly-Ann fraser-pryce.

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She won the women’s 100m world title at the world athletics championships in Oregon in July, becoming the first person to win five golds in an individual track event at the championships.

Argentina lifted the world cup for the third time, beating france in a penalty shootout in doha after possibly the greatest final of all time, which ended in a 3-3 draw.

They beat england’s euro 2022-winning lionesses, men’s champions league winners real madrid and france’s men’s six nations champions to win the award.

Manchester united and Denmark midfielder Christian Eriksen won comeback of the year following his return to football after collapsing on the pitch because of cardiac arrest during euro 2020, while men’s tennis world number two Carlos Alcaraz was awarded world breakthrough of the year after a 2022 in which the then 19-year-old won the us open and became tennis’ youngest men’s number one.

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