The Argentine and Barcelona player was the biggest winner in the annual Liga Awards, going home with 2011/2012 Player of the year in La liga and also named the best attacker of the of the season beating Real Madrid duo Christiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema, while Bartra was declared the best defender in the Second Division
Accepting the awards, the new father has this to say; "For those two awards I want to thank the coaches that voted me the best forward and to my colleagues who voted me the best player," Messi told reporters.
"It's a very big honour to be able to receive these awards. I won it last year too, it's a g reat satisfaction and an enormous joy."
Other winners are Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas who was voted best goalkeeper ahead of Victor Valdes and Roberto Jimenez (Zaragoza), while Sergio Ramos beat Javier Mascherano and Javi Martinez to the title of best defender.
Xabi Alonso(Madrid) pipped Sergio Busquets(barcelona) and Benat (Betis) to win the best holding midfielder while Andres Iniesta(Barcelona) won the best attacking midfielder at the expense of Santi Cazorla(ex-malaga) and Mesut Ozil(Madrid).
For the coach of the year, the former Barcelona coach Josep Pep Guardiola beat Madrids Jose Mourinho to it while Carles puyol won the fair play award. The vote was cast by players and coaches in the first and second division of spains football league.
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