Tuesday, December 10, 2013
FIFA reveals the three-man shortlist for the 2013 Ballon d'Or
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FIFA has revealed the 3-man shortlist
for this year’s FIFA Ballon d’Or award for the best player of 2013 along with FIFA
Women’s World Player of the Year 2013 award. Lionel Messi (Argentina) Cristiano
Ronaldo (Portugal) and Franck Ribéry (France) will fight it out for the title
of the world's best player. For the women, Nadine Angerer (Germany), Marta
(Brazil) and Abby Wambach (USA) will contest the women’s award.
The two obvious main contenders Messi
and Cristiano who seem to trail one another in achievement have continued to
have to showcase their talents endlessly.
Messi has won the award in each of
the last four years; the 26-year-old striker has continued to be prolific since
being awarded the 2012 prize, leading Barcelona to another La Liga title with
45 goals and Argentina to a place at Brazil 2014.
Ronaldo won the award in 2008 and
has since been repeatedly placed second, this year; after scoring 34 league
goals for Real Madrid last season and guiding Portugal to World Cup
qualification this could be the year for Ronaldo.
Ribéry has had a sparkling year for
the treble-winners Bayern Munich, French player has had a good year in which he
helped his side win the Champions League, Bundesliga and German Cup. Ribery is
currently UEFA’s best player in Europe for the 2012-2013 seasons.
FIFA also announced the nominees
for the World Coach of the Year for Men’s Football and FIFA World Coach of the
Year for Women’s Football awards
The Nominees are (in alphabetical
order): Sir Alex Ferguson (Scotland/Manchester United FC former coach), Jupp
Heynckes (Germany/FC Bayern München former coach) and Jürgen Klopp
(Germany/Borussia Dortmund) for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men’s
Football award, and Ralf Kellermann (Germany/VfL Wolfsburg), Silvia Neid
(Germany/German national team) and Pia Sundhage (Sweden/Swedish national team)
for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women’s Football award.
The voting procedure for each of
the awards is supervised and monitored by the independent observer
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Switzerland. The awards will be presented at the
FIFA Ballon d’Or award ceremony at the Kongresshaus in Zurich on 13 January
2014.
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