The Football Magazine, "World Soccer" has given in their list of Best Player, Best Coach, Best National Team & Best World XI. The outcomes are no surprise as they fall in line with most expert & Football public opinion.
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| Lionel Messi |
The Best Player for 2012 is FC BARCELONA star LIONEL MESSI , followed by Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid & third Barça Spanish International Andres Iniesta. This looks very much like what many think will be the final Golden Ball standing to be handed in early January 2013.
The Best Coach goes to Spanish National Team manager VICENTE DEL BOSQUE. The SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM was voted the Best National Squad.
The World XI includes Messi, Ronaldo & Iniesta, along with Casillas, Lahm, Ramos, Jordi Alba, Kompany, Pirlo, Xavi Hernandez, Falcao
"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).
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).
