Global sports media congratulates Messi on his sixth Ballon d’Or. The world’s leading sports media on Tuesday praised the figure of Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi, after receiving in Paris, France, the sixth Ballon d’Or, or Golden Ball, of his career. The forward of Spanish club FC Barcelona received the award before the attentive gaze of the entire football world: ‘I have never stopped dreaming and enjoying football like when I was a child,’ said the South American star after receiving the prize from the hands of Croatian player Luka Modric of Real Madrid. ‘Messix’ was the title used by Spanish site Mundo Deportivo to report on the past 10 years since the Barcelona captain received this award for the first time. ‘The Best, the Golden Shoe and the Golden Ball are his,’ it added. ‘Football has only one God,’ wrote the daily Sport, while as opened the day with ‘M6SSI’ and filled its pages with quotes from the Argentinian star in the gala staged at the Chatelet Theater in the French capital.
