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Connor O'Neill

Who Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah and Andy Robertson voted for in Best FIFA Men's Player award

Andy Robertson and Virgil van Dijk both voted for Lionel Messi in the men's player award at the 2022 Best FIFA Awards - with their Liverpool team-mate Mohamed Salah picking Vinicius Junior.

Messi beat French forwards Kylian Mbappe and Karim Benzema to the prize. The 35-year-old captained Argentina to World Cup glory in Qatar, and scored 27 goals in 49 games for club and country in 2021/22.

And following the ceremony in Paris, in which Lionel Scaloni, who led Argentina to their third World Cup title, was named men's coach of the year, and Emiliano Martinez was recognised as the best men's goalkeeper, the details of who voted for who were released by FIFA.

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