Casillas raised questions about the fairness of The Best when Messi surpassed Haaland. Both players had 48 points after the vote, but Messi beat Haaland thanks to more votes from the national team captains (Messi had 677 points and Haaland had 557 points).

“You create some noble award and you ruin it by doing unfair things. It would be more appropriate to change the name of this award to “a joke”. Anyway, good night,” Casillas wrote on X.

Although he did not name anyone specifically, it was clear that Casillas was referring to Messi’s victory. The Best award evaluates player achievements from December 19, 2022 to August 20, 2023, which is after the 2022 World Cup. That means Messi’s world championship is not valid at The Best 2023. .

So many people reacted to Messi’s victory, including Casillas, the goalkeeper who has faced Messi many times in El Clasico matches.

In addition to mocking Messi, the former Spanish goalkeeper also criticized FIFPRO’s typical squad with 1 goalkeeper, 3 defenders, 3 midfielders and 4 strikers.

“1-3-3-4. That’s not a lottery number, not a country’s phone code, or my iPhone password. That is the new generation football diagram. It’s great, it’s better to call this diagram 1-10″, Casillas mocked.

This is not the first time Casillas has mocked Messi. At The Best 2022 when Messi won the Best Player award, Lionel Scaloni won the Best Coach award and Emiliano Martinez became the Best Goalkeeper, Casillas declared: “There are some things I don’t understand about the awards.” football reward”.