Barcelona players have never won the La Liga Player of the Month award as Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez snubbed
But Celta Vigo's Nolito has won it twice
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Your support makes all the difference.Barcelona have won two out of the last three La Liga titles, have an incredible attacking trio and some of the most gifted players ever seen in football, yet not a single one of them have won the La Liga Player of the month award since its creation.
Amazingly, not one Barcelona player has performed well enough to win the award on the 20 occasions it has been dished out, and despite the Catalan side leading the way at the top of La Liga with 27 points from a possible 33, they have once again been overlooked.
While it’s acceptable to believe that other players in lower-placed teams can impress and standout more given they do not always perform to the levels of Barcelona, it’s almost inconceivable to think that Lionel Messi has never won the award.
So it must be dominated by Real Madrid players then? Wrong. Only two players have been crowned player of the month from the Real squad, with Cristiano Ronaldo recognised in November 2013 and May 2015 while Karim Benzema took the award in October 2014.
Other two-time winners alongside Ronaldo include Atletico Madrid’s Diego Godin and Antoine Greizmann, and Celta Vigo forward Nolito. Former Arsenal striker Carlos Vela has also won the award twice with Real Sociedad, but Barcelona’s wait continues after Eibar’s Borja Baston took the gong for last month.
The amazing fact comes despite Messi being the second-highest goalscorers over the last three season, his total of 74 goals bettered only by Ronaldo’s tally of 87.
Rather more bizarrely, Borja picked up the award this month for scoring three goals in three games, compared to Messi’s Barcelona team-mate Luis Suarez who managed to score the same number against Eibar in October along with two other goals that month.
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