How the papers reacted to Lionel Messi’s sixth Ballon d’Or win

Lionel Messi is unsurprisingly all over the front pages across Europe on Tuesday after scooping his sixth Ballon d’Or in Paris.

The Barcelona captain has now won the prestigious award more times than any other player after beating off competition from Virgil van Dijk and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Messi’s win dominates the headlines in Spain, Italy, France and England, so here’s a quick look at how the news was covered by the press.

Sport have a picture of Lionel Messi with all six of his Ballon d’Or trophies and the headline ‘Football only has one god’

Over in France the picture is again of Messi with a headline that doesn’t need much translating.