Leonid Buryak: "Apart from Messi, no one else has had the opportunity to win the Ballon d'Or. I have no doubts about him"

Leonid Buriak, former head coach of the Ukrainian national team and Dynamo Kyiv, commented on Lionel Messi's eighth Ballon d'Or.

"Apart from Messi, no one else has had the opportunity to win the Ballon d'Or. I have no doubts about him. Guardiola correctly said that we need to make two Ballon d'Ors - one to give to Messi and the other to play. In all components of football, the Argentine is head and shoulders above other players. Moreover, he has no bad seasons.

Messi is the standard of excellence, he has no weaknesses at all. This man has been making a spectacle for quite a long time. I think that the world will not see such a player soon, with all due respect to Mbappe and Holland," said Buriak.