FIFA BEST AWARDS | CRISTIANO RONALDO THE BEST 2016

FIFA handed this evening their "BEST AWARDS" after "breaking" with France Football which now gives the Golden Ball Award. As expected Real Madrid forward CRISTIANO RONALDO culminated 2016 with another prize, his 16th individual Award, this time with the "FIFA BEST PLAYER 2016".

The unfortunate news of the evening was the "boycott" by FC Barcelona which "did not allow" their nominated players: Iniesta, Pique, Luis Suarez & Messi ( also nominated for "Best 2016") to attend. The real reason is their disagreements with FIFA over "under-aged players" sanctions, & the fact the "Court of Arbitration in Sport" sanctioned in favour of Real Madrid for similar accusations. FC Barcelona believes FIFA favours Real Madrid, which in itself obviously needs to be proven. 

The action of not attending has damaged seriously FC Barcelona profile & their Worldwide image as their dominance of World Soccer begins to decline. What is worse, Lionel Messi has involved himself in all this racket being nominated as "Best Player" & we all will want to know if this decision was voluntary.

FC Barcelona has claimed officially that their players are concentrated for their upcoming Spanish Cup qualifier return match, a game they need to win to stay alive in the competition after losing 2 -1 away to Athletic Club Bilbao. Naturally no one believes this story as Barça has never given the Spanish Cup the "priority" they have until today.

In all case, the damage has been done image wise.

FIFA Best Player 2016
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal / Real Madrid CF)

The voting was in the following porportions: 
Cristiano Ronaldo 34,54% Votes
Lionel Messi 26.42%
Griezmann 7,53%

Spanish Football dominated as well the Best XI team 2016... Real Madrid contributed to the best 11 with 5 players, while Barça had 4 & Atletico de Madrid was represented with Griezmann. The inexplicable part of this voting was that Griezmann was voted 3rd Best Player for 2016, but did not manage to make the Best XI. Again FIFA shows its incoherent side as in past Awards & has lifted some eyebrows. 

FIFA BEST 11 FIFPRO 2016:
GOALKEEPER: Neuer (FC Bayern Munich/ Germany)

DEFENCE: Alves (Barcelona y Juventus / Brazil), Pique (FC Barcelona / Spain), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid / Spain) & Marcelo (Real Madrid / Brazil) 

MIDFIELDERS: Luka Modric (Real Madrid / Croatia), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid / Germany) & Andres Iniesta (FC Barcelona / Spain)

FORWARDS: Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona / Argentina), Luis Suarez (FC Barcelona / Uruguay) & Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid CF / Portugal)

OTHER FIFA BEST AWARDS:

FIFA Best Player Female 2016

Carli Lloyd (USA)

FIFA Best Coach 2016 Male

Claudio Ranieri (Italy/Leicester)

FIFA Best Coach 2016 Female

Silvia Neid (Germany)

Puskas Prize Best Goal 2016

Mohd Faiz bin Subri (Malaysia)

FIFA Honarific Prize for career (Indoor Football)

Falcao (Brazil)

Overall a great evening of mates & marketing to give World exposure to Football, FIFA & past players. The "family" always looks after "the family".

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FIFPRO - FIFA LIST OF FORWARD CANDIDATES | 4 SPANISH LIGA PLAYERS

After releasing the list of candidates for the Goalkeeper, Defenders & Midfield positions for the "FIFPRO-FIFA Best XI Team", today it was the turn of the 15 candidates for the forward positions. Aparte from the regulars Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Ibrahimovic, Lewandowski etc , Atletico de Madrid player Diego Costa makes his first appearance. This is a quantitative lift from past seasons & his career which parallels his top season reaching the World Football elite. There are 4 Spanish Liga players on todays list.

Remember more than 50.000 Professional Football Players from around the World have voted in the mentioned categories that will give the final "Best XI World Team" which will be presented at the FIFA-Golden Ball ceremony on the 13th of January 2014 in Zurich. The highest voted Football Player also receives 100.000€ which will be donated to Charity, in this case the International Red Cross. 

Full list of 15 forward candidates :

Sergio Agüero (Argentina / Manchester City FC), Mario Balotelli (Italy / AC Milan), Edison Cavani (Uruguay / AS Napoli - Paris Saint-Germain FC), Diego Costa (Spain / Atlético de Madrid), Neymar da Silva (Brazil / FC Barcelona), Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos (Portugal / Real Madrid CF), Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast / Galatasary SK), Radamel Falcao (Colombia / Atlético de Madrid - AS Monaco FC), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden / Paris Saint-Germain FC), Robert Lewandowski (Poland / Borussia Dortmund), Mario Mandzukic (Croatia / FC Bayern Munich), Lionel Messi (Argentina, FC Barcelona), Robin van Persie (Holland / Manchester United FC), Wayne Rooney (England/ Manchester United FC), Luis Suárez (Uruguay / Liverpool FC).

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FIFPRO BEST XI TEAM 2013 MIDFIELDERS CANDIDATES LIST | 5 SPANIARDS

There are 5 Spaniards in the list of 15 midfield candidates to make up the FIFPRO-FIFA XI 2013 team. Few days back the Goalkeeping candidates were release & today it was the turn of the midfielders voted by all the World Football Professionals ( i.e. by their peers ).

List of candidates:
- Francisco Alarcón Isco (Spain, Málaga CF / Real Madrid CF)
- Xabi Alonso (Spain, Real Madrid CF)
- Gareth Bale (Wales, Tottenham Hotspur FC / Real Madrid CF)
- Sergio Busquets (Spain , FC Barcelona)
- Steven Gerrard (England, Liverpool FC)
- Xavi Hernández (Spain, FC Barcelona)
- Andrés Iniesta (Spain, FC Barcelona)
- Mesut Ozil (Germany, Real Madrid CF / Arsenal FC)
- Andrea Pirlo (Italy, Juventus FC)
- Marco Reus (Germany, Borussia Dortmund)
- Franck Ribery (France, FC Bayern Munich)
- Arjen Robben (Holland, FC Bayern Munich)
- Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany, FC Bayern Munich)
- Yaya Touré (Ivory Coast, Manchester City FC)
- Arturo Vidal (Chile, Juventus FC)

The Spanish Football League - Liga - has 6 out of the 15 candidates. 

FIFPRO-FIFA will release publicly the 15 candidates in the "Forwards" category the 9th of December.

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VICTOR VALDES - IKER CASILLAS CANDIDATES FIFA FIFPRO WORLD XI

The candidates in the Goalkeeping category have been released for the FIFA FIFPro World XI to be announced on the 13th of January 2014. Two Spanish Football Players are on the list, FC Barcelona Victor Valdes & Real Madrid Iker Casillas. 

The other three candidates are Neuer of Bayern Munich, Buffon of Juventus & Petr Chech of Chelsea FC.

The voters are all the World Football Professionals which are asked yearly to pick their choice of the Best player for the goalkeeping, defender, midfield & forward categories. From this list the World XI will be chosen & given their prize at the FIFA Golden Ball ( World Player ) Award ceremony.

The candidates for defenders, midfielders & forwards will be released respectively the 4th, 6th & 9th of December.
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FIFPRO HANDS IN BEST WORLD MIDFIELDER LIST OF PRE-CANDIDATES

"FIFPro",  the World Football Players Union, in collaboration with FIFA, has announced its list of MIDFIELD pre-candidates that will make up the "FIFPRO WORLD X1". The Goalkeepers & Defenders lists have already been handed in with Iker Casillas chosen amongst the Best goalies, with defenders Sergio Ramos, Gerard Piqué, Carles Puyol & Jordi Alba.

Next Thursday the list of FORWARDS will be handed in by FIFA.com.

Full list of MIDFIELDER pre-candidates:
Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid), Sergio Busquets (FC Barcelona), Cesc Fábregas (FC Barcelona), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Eden Hazard (Chelsea), Andrés Iniesta (FC Barcelona), Frank Lampard (Chelsea), Luka Modric (Real Madrid), Mesut Ozil (Real Madrid), Andrea Pirlo (Juventus), Franck Ribery (Bayern Múnich), David Silva (Manchester City), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Múnich), Yaya Touré (Manchester City) & Xavi Hernández (FC Barcelona).

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FIFA - FIFPRO NAME 10 SPANIARDS IN LIST OF 55 NOMINATED FOR 2010 WORLD XI

The 50,000 Football professionals that make up the FIFPro (World Players Union) along with World governing Football body FIFA have handed in their list of 55 players nominated for the "2010 FIFA FIFPro World XI”. The official announcement of the players that will make up the World Team will be held the 10th of January 2011 alongside the naming of the winning of the “FIFA Golden Ball 2010”.

Spanish National Team players with the 2010 World Cup

In the list of 55 there are 10 Spaniards:
Casillas, Piqué, Puyol, Sergio Ramos, Fábregas, Iniesta, Xabi Alonso, Xavi, Villa & Torres


Also out of the 55 there are 18 ( non – Spaniards) who play in the Spanish Football League – La Liga.


Here is the full list of nominated players:


Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Buffon (Italy, Juventus), Iker Casillas (Spain, Real Madrid), Petr Cech (Czech Rep, Chelsea), Júlio César (Brazil, Inter), Edwin van der Sar (Holland, Manchester United).

Defenders: Daniel Alves (Brazil, Barcelona), Gareth Bale (Wales, Tottenham Hotspur), Michel Bastos (Brazil, Olympique Lyon), Ashley Cole (England, Chelsea), Patrice Evra (France, Manchester United), Rio Ferdinand (England, Manchester United), Philipp Lahm (Germany, Bayern), Lúcio (Brazil, Inter), Maicon (Brazil, Inter), Marcelo (Brazil, Real Madrid), Alessandro Nesta (Italy, Milan), Pepe (Portugal, Real Madrid), Gerard Piqué (Spain, Barcelona), Carles Puyol (Spain, Barcelona), Sergio Ramos (Spain, Real Madrid), Walter Samuel (Argentina, Inter), John Terry (England, Chelsea), Thiago Silva (Brazil, Milan), Nemanja Vidic (Serbia, Manchester United), Javier Zanetti (Argentina, Inter).

Midfielders: Esteban Cambiasso (Argentina, Inter), Mickael Essien (Ghana, Chelsea), Cesc Fábregas (Spain, Arsenal), Steven Gerrard (England, Liverpool), Andrés Iniesta (Spain, Barcelona), Ricardo Kaká (Brazil, Real Madrid), Frank Lampard (England, Chelsea), Javier Mascherano (Argentina, Barcelona), Thomas Muller (germany, Bayern), Mesut Ozil (Germany, Real Madrid), Andrea Pirlo (Italy, Milan), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany, Bayern), Wesley Sneijder (Holland, Inter), Xabi Alonso (Spain, Real Madrid), Xavi (Spain, Barcelona).


Forwards: Dimitar Berbatov (Bulgary, Manchester United), Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast, Chelsea), Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon, Inter), Diego Forlán (Uruguay, Atlético Madrid), Gonzalo Higuaín (Argentina, Real Madrid), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden, Milan), Lionel Messi (Argentina, Barcelona), Diego Milito (Argentina, Inter), Arjen Robben (Holland, Bayern), Ronaldinho (Brazil, Milan), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal, Real Madrid), Wayne Rooney (England, Manchester United), Carlos Tévez (Argentina, Manchester City), Fernando Torres (Spain, Liverpool), David Villa (Spain, Barcelona). Tweet

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IKER CASILLAS: BEST GOALKEEPER IN THE WORLD 2009

Local sports daily “AS” advances that next Monday at the FIFA ceremony
at Zurich, REAL MADRID goalkeeper IKER CASILLAS will be named
“Best Goalkeeper in the World” by the Football Players Union –
the “FIFPro”.

Iker Casillas competes with other notable goalies like Víctor Valdés
(Barcelona), Van der Sar (Manchester United), Julio César (Inter),
Reina (Liverpool) & Neuer (Schalke).However, the Spanish daily
has “inside” information which confirms them that the Spanish
International & Spanish National team Captain has the majority
of the votes.

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FIFA/FIFPro "BEST WORLD XI" 2009: 11 SPANISH CANDIDATES

FIFA & FIFPro (the players Union) have combined to announce this
year the "FIFA/FIFPro WORLD XI Team" which will be announced the
21st of December in a Gala at Zurich (Switzerland).

For the moment the organizations have handed in their 55 candidates
of which 11 are Spanish players:
Casillas, Reina, Sergio Ramos, Piqué, Puyol, Iniesta, Xavi, Xabi Alonso,
Cesc, Torres & Villa.

The “World XI” will be voted by 50.000 professional Football players
from all around the World who will vote for their Best Player per
each position. Here is the FULL LIST of 55 Candidates: Spaniards
in BLOCK & Spanish based players in dark -

GOALKEEPERS
Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), IKER CASILLAS (Spain/Real Madrid),
Julio Cesar (Inter), JOSE MANUEL REINA (Spain/Liverpool),
Edwin van der Sar (Manchester United)

DEFENDERS
Daniel Alves (FC Barcelona), Fabio Cannavaro (Juventus), Giorgio
Chiellini (Juventus), Gael Clichy (Arsenal), Ashley Cole (Chelsea),
Patrice Evra (/Manchester United), Rio Ferdinand (Manchester
United), Fabio Grosso (Juventus), Glen Johnson (Liverpool), Philipp
Lahm (Bayern Munich), Lucio Ferreira (Inter), Maicon Douglas
Sisenando (Inter), Alessandro Nesta (AC Milan), Pepe (Real Madrid),
GERARD PIQUE (Spain/ FC Barcelona), CARLES PUYOL (Spain/FC
Barcelona), SERGIO RAMOS (Spain/Real Madrid), Walter Samuel (Inter),
John Terry (Chelsea), Nemanja Vidic (Manchester United).

MIDFIELDERS
XABI ALONSO (Spain/Real Madrid), Michael Ballack (Chelsea), Daniele
De Rossi (AS Roma), Diego (Juventus), Michael Essien (Chelsea),
CESC FABREGAS (Arsenal), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Ryan Giggs
(Manchester United), ANDRES INIESTA (FC Barcelona), Ricardo Kaká
(Real Madrid), Frank Lampard (Chelsea), Andrea Pirlo (AC Milan),
Franck Ribéry (Bayern Munich), Yaya Touré (FC Barcelona),
XAVI (FC Barcelona).

FORWARDS
Nicolas Anelka (Chelsea), Andrei Arshavin (Arsenal), Karim Benzema
(Real Madrid), Didier Drogba (Chelsea), Samuel Etoó (Inter), Luís
Fabiano (Sevilla), Thierry Henry (FC Barcelona), Zlatan Ibrahimovic
(FC Barcelona), Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona), Diego Milito (Inter),
Alexandre Pato (AC Milan), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid), Wayne
Rooney (Manchester United), FERNANDO TORRES (Liverpool),
DAVID VILLA (Valencia).

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5 SPANIARDS IN THE 2007/2008 WORLD 11 FIFPRO SIDE

A total of 57,500 Professional World Footballers have placed their
votes as part of the FIFPro Association & have given Manchseter
United Portugues International CRISTIANO RONALDO the Best
Player for 2007/2008 Award.


















Aaprt from this, the Association elected it´s World 11 Team for
2007/2008 with 5 Spanish players in the side: Casillas (Real
Madrid); Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid); Carles Puyol (FC
Barcelona); Xavi (FC Barcelona) & Fernando Torres (Liverpool)


















The other members of the World 11 side are: John Terry (Chelsea);
Rio Ferdinand (Man Utd.); Steven Gerrard (Liverpool); Kaka (AC Milan);
C. Ronaldo (Man Utd.) & Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) Tweet

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