Erling Haaland on alert, Lionel Messi already knows the result of the Ballon d'Or

Lionel Messi will play the last game of the South American Qualifiers against Peru and then he will set his mind on training in the best possible way for the November matches against Uruguay and Brazil before starting his vacation and, later, the preseason for the next one. Inter Miami campaign. Now, in the middle of all that calendar, the man from Rosario will make a visit to Paris at the end of October.

Yes, Leo will return to the capital of France where he suffered so much with PSG for two years, but this time it could be with a happy ending. And Messi was not only nominated for the 2023 Ballon d'Or, but he is also the great favorite to win the award over Erling Haaland. The '10' had not been shortlisted in the previous edition, but now he returned with all the laurels and with great chances of winning the prize awarded by France Football magazine for the eighth time.

Although there are more than two weeks left for the event and it is practically an open secret that the Argentine star will be the winner, now a friend of the Messi family announced that the Rosario native has already been informed that he will win the Ballon d'Or on October 30. This is Alessandro Dossetti and he gave the scoop through his social networks. If true, Lionel would stretch his record and be three ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo.

Messi no longer has interest in winning the Ballon d'Or

Recently, La Pulga was asked about the possibility of raising the France Football award again in a press conference he gave at Inter Miami, and his response was forceful: "At this stage of my life it is no longer important to me. I always said it, individual awards are not what matters to me, but collective ones. The most important award at the moment is the World Cup".