He was the fifth football player winning the award, which began in 1980 and routinely administered every year.
Messi beat two other candidates ie, tennis player Novak Djokovic (ranked second) and Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel (ranked third).
Football star who won an award before it was Paolo Rossi (1982), Diego Armando Maradona (1986), Romario (1994), and Zinedine Zidane (1998).
Given the four-star football earlier in the year it won the award during the World Cup was held, Messi soccer player's first award-winning "Champions des Champions" that year did not last World Cup.
Throughout 2011, the player costumes numbered 10 at the Barcelona club won five championships with his club, and became the top scorer in the Champions League last season.
Five titles were the Spanish League, Champions League, Spanish Super Cup, European Super Cup and Club World Cup.
Award for Messi could still grow in early 2012. Together with his partner a club, Xavi Hernandez, and Real Madrid's Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo, he entered the candidate list of the Best Soccer Players are given the 2011 World Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) or "FIFA Ballon d'Or".
Messi is also the World Best Soccer Player in 2009 and 2010. The award "Champions des Champions" by the newspaper "L'Equipe" ever given to important figures in world sport, such as sprinters Carl Lewis, driver Ayrton Senna, basketball star Michael Jordan, and the driver Michael Schumacher.
Lists a number of athletes the best version of L'Equipe:
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