Barcelona’s Lionel Messi took home another award this week. The Argentine star was named Best Men’s player at the FIFA awards. The win didn’t go without controversy. After the win took place, Nicaragua captain Juan Barrera came out and said that he didn’t vote for Messi. To which FIFA had a pretty concise comeback.
“We have checked the voting documents submitted by the Nicaraguan FA and all documents are signed and confirmed with the official stamp of the Nicaraguan FA,”
“Having compared with the vote sheets submitted by the federation and the ones we have published on FIFA.