Dubai: Star football player Lionel Messi won the best player of the seventh edition of the Globe Soccer Awards here on Sunday, and FC Barcelona took home the best club prize.


Barcelona striker Lionel Messi (L) receiving the trophy for best player of the year during the Dubai Globe Soccer award at the end of the Dubai International Sports Conference in the United Arab Emirate of Dubai. Pic/AFP

"It is difficult to choose one moment as we were winning wherever we played," said Messi, who travelled from Argentina to attend the ceremony.