The next December 17 FIFA will honor the best footballers and coaches of the year with the award The Best, which is one of the most distinguished awards in the environment along with the Ballon d’Or. The organization announced the candidates for the different awards and one of the great surprises was in the coaches category, where the Argentine will fight for the award Marcelo bielsa after ascending to Leeds a la Premier League.
The awards ceremony will be virtual for the first time in history, taking into account the pandemic that plagues the world. In total, there will be 11 categories, highlighting the The Best to the player of the year that in 2019 the North American took Megan Rapinoe Y to the player of the year that last year was owned by Lionel Messi.
Argentina will once again have a candidate for best DT of the year after the presence of Mauricio Pochettino (3°), Marcelo gallardo (9th) and Ricardo Gareca (10th) last year. Previously, Diego Simeone (6th) had been among the triads of 2018. The Cholo (10 °) and Pochettino (12th) repeated their names in the 2017 and in the 2016, when they finished 4th and 10th respectively.
It should be noted that FIFA awards the award for best footballer of the year since 1991, even though between 2010 and 2015 awarded the distinction in conjunction with the Ballon d’Or. Between all those years, Messi was the central protagonist of the FIFA awards: in 2007 Y 2008 came second behind Kaká and Cristiano Ronaldo, respectively. At 2009, the last before merging with the Ballon d’Or, Leo won the FIFA World Player award.
During the delivery together, Messi seized the FIFA Ballon d’Or in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015. The birth of the The Best The following year they kept him on the sidelines for three seasons (he finished two years behind Cristiano Ronaldo and in 2018 he did not even join the shortlist that Luka Modric won). Finally, in 2019 he raised it for the first time imposing on Virgil van Dijk and Cristiano.
It will also have its representative Chile with Christiane Endler, the 29-year-old goalkeeper who has played for PSG since 2017 and will seek the award for the best goalkeeper of the season against Ann-Katrin Berger (Germany), Sarah Bouhaddi (France), Hedvig Lindahl (Sweden), Alyssa Naeher (United States) and Ellie Roebuck (England).
CANDIDATES FOR BEST DT OF THE YEAR
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• Marcelo Bielsa (Leeds) / Hans-Dieter Flick (Bayern Münich) / Jürgen Klopp (Liverpool) / Christmas Lopetegui (Seville) / Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid)
CANDIDATES FOR BEST FOOTBALL PLAYER OF THE YEAR
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• Lionel Messi (Argentina) / Christian Ronaldo (Portugal) / Thiago Alcántara (Spain) / Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium) / Robert Lewandowski (Poland) / Sadio Mane (Senegal) / Kylian Mbappé (France) / Sergio Ramos (Spain) / Mohamed Wrong (Egipto) / Virgil van Dijk (Holland)
CANDIDATES FOR BEST FOOTBALL PLAYER OF THE YEAR
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• Lucy Bronze (England) / Delphine Cascarino (France) / Caroline Hansen (Norway) / Pernille Harder (Norway) / Jenni Beautiful (Spain) / Sam Kerr (Australia) / Ji So-yun (South Korea) / Saki Kumagai (Japan) / Dzsenifer Marozsán (Germany) / Vivianne Miedema (Holanda) / Wendie Renard (France)
THE OTHER NOMINATIONS
• Coaches of the year: Lluís Cortés (Spain / FC Barcelona), Rita Guarino (Italy / Juventus), Emma Hayes (England / Chelsea FC), Stephan Lerch (Germany / VfL Wolfsburg), Hege Riise (Norway / LSK Kvinner), Jean-Luc Vasseur ( France / Olympique Lyon), Sarina Wiegman (Netherlands National Team)
• Goalkeepers of the year: Alisson Becker (Brazil) / Thibaut Courtois (Belgium) / Keylor Navas (Costa Rica) / Manuel Neuer (Germany) / Jan Oblak (Slovenia) / Marc-André ter Stegen (Germany)
• Goalkeepers of the year: Ann-Katrin Berger (Germany) / Sarah Bouhaddi (France) / Christiane Endler (Chile) / Hedvig Lindahl (Sweden) / Alyssa Naeher (USA) / Ellie Roebuck (England)
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