The 14th Dubai Globe Soccer Awards ceremony (temporarily called: Dubai Golden Ball) took place at the Atlantis Hotel, Dubai (UAE) on the night of January 19. The ceremony was attended by international football organizations such as FIFA, UEFA, ECA… This is one of the important awards in world football, recognizing the outstanding achievements of the year of players and players. Coaches as well as teams.

In the most important award category of the 2023 Globe Soccer gala, Cristiano Ronaldo and Erling Haaland are two bright candidates for this noble title. And the final result, Haaland was the one honored. Haaland was previously beaten by Lionel Messi to win the 2023 Best Men’s Player award (FIFA The Best) and before that the Golden Ball (awarded by France Football magazine).

Erling Haaland spent the 2022/23 season extremely brightly with 52 goals in his first season playing in England, making a great contribution to helping Man City win a historic treble.

Notably, at the time of announcing the winner, Ronaldo pointed his finger at Haaland as a confirmation that the junior was a worthy person. Just like Messi voted for Haaland himself in the recent FIFA The Best race, CR7 recognized the impressive achievements of the young Norwegian star.

Haaland is the 8th name in history to receive the Dubai Golden Ball award, after Cristiano Ronaldo, Radamel Falcao, Franck Ribery, Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski, Kylian Mbappe and Karim Benzema.

Although he did not win the Dubai Golden Ball title, Ronaldo was also honored in three other individual award categories including, “Most scored player of the year”, “Best player in the Middle East” and “Best player, according to fans’ votes”.

According to FIFA, Ronaldo is the player who scored the most goals in the world last year at the professional level, including for the parent club Al Nassr and the Portuguese national team. Up to now, Ronaldo has been honored with the Dubai Golden Ball award 6 times, while Messi has only been honored once.

Historically, Ronaldo is still the player with the most Dubai Golden Balls (6 times), 5 times more than any colleague who has ever received the award.

In addition to awards for Ronaldo and Haaland, Globe Soccer also honored many groups and individuals. Man City won the most successful club award, Pep Guardiola won the best coach award, Ederson and Rodri won the best goalkeeper and midfielder awards. The player award with an outstanding career belongs to Casemiro and John Terry. Ronaldo’s old friend, “super agent” Jorge Mendes also received the Agent of the Year award.