After an amazing 2010/11 season, winning the Champions League and La Liga as well as being the best player in both tournaments, Messi received a staggering rise in popularity, so much so that he was one of the candidates of the 2011 TIME Person of the Year.
His entry in the voting talked about how he was the best player of his generation, his amazing season at Barcelona, his 200-goal milestone for Barcelona, and his importance to football by making it more commercially appealing and successful. These factors were enough to get him nominated.
In the end, Messi received 74.415 votes, around 15.7% of the total amount of votes, which got him second in the voting behind Erdoğan, Turkey's Prime Minister, with 122.934 votes. Not only that, but he had the best average in terms of popularity/unpopularity since Erdoğan received 180.564 votes as the most unpopular person according to TIME's readers. This means that he was both incredibly popular and very uncontroversial as well.
All in all, it was a very impressive achievement to see how far he got into the voting, which magnifies his legacy. I hope you liked this entry, and as always, I'll see you in the next blog.
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