If you followed all the football tournaments, you would know that Messi had nothing to do with it, as he didn't win anything at all in 2014! And if anyone deserved it besides Ronaldo, it was someone from Germany, like Manuel Neuer.

First of all, I don't understand why people start arguing using words that aren't their own. Saying that Neuer should have won is complete nonsense; he is clearly less deserving than the other two. Secondly, I also disagree that Messi was recognized as the best player of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil; someone else clearly fit that role, like THOMAS MÜLLER, whom everyone seems to have forgotten. Thirdly, you're now trying to explain to me that, for example, a highly decorated tennis player like DJOKOVIC, who starts playing doubles in the middle of the season, abandoning his individual performances with one of his compatriots, and loses a number of matches in half a year (due to his teammate, even though he himself performed excellently), wouldn't deserve an award, right?! Yes, Barcelona didn't have the most outstanding results, but Messi's performance didn't decline. To summarize, yes, Ronaldo won the Champions League, but he clearly wasn't the one playing the decisive role in all the key games; it was Di Maria, Bale, and others, but definitely not him! Yes, he won the Spanish championship in 2013-2014 with Real Madrid, but that's just how it goes. However, for statistical purposes, Ronaldo scored 31 goals in that season, while Messi scored 28 goals in the same championship, even though every ball isn't passed to him for an easy shot into an empty net in the weak Spanish league (it's not the English Premier League), as it is for Ronaldo. Why don't I bring up other players from that championship for comparison? Because there's no one, and as I said, the championship is inferior compared to England and Germany! But at the World Cup, the deadlocked national teams of Argentina and Portugal played differently; the Portuguese didn't even make it out of the group stage, and it wasn't even a particularly difficult group, while Argentina reached the final, although I don't know if it was thanks to Messi, but it's a fact. Oh yes, and if we return to the topic and follow your logic, then the player of the year should have been Gomunculus again, not Marretti, because the latter didn't win more competitions than the former, and he was less successful in their head-to-head matches in 2014. And yes, let's move this topic to the forum if you want to continue, because it's a bit inappropriate here.