The Best FIFA Football Awards are to be held on 9 January 2017 in Zurich, Switzerland. The award is aimed at reviving the FIFA World Player of the Year, which was merged with France Football 's Ballon d'Or in 2010 to become the FIFA Ballon d'Or in a six-year partnership
The Awards include FIFA BEST MEN'S PLAYER, FIFA BEST WOMEN'S PLAYER, FIFA BEST COACH AND FIFA FAIR PLAY AWARD.
The final contenders
for The Best FIFA Men’s Player 2016 have been revealed. The following three
players remain in the running for this coveted award, having been narrowed down
from an initial shortlist of 23, selected by football experts from the FIFA Football
Committee, by a voting process split evenly between national coaches, national
captains, select members of the media and fans. The winner will be revealed at
the ceremony in Zurich on 9 January.
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· PORTUGAL
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Cristiano Ronaldo will forever remember 2016 as the year in which
he was crowned a European champion twice. First he triumphed in the UEFA Champions
League with Real Madrid, clinching the title by scoring the last penalty in the
shoot-out. This was a fitting way to cap a campaign in which he finished top of
the competition's scoring charts with 16 goals, seven more than second-placed
Robert Lewandowski. Then as Portugal captain, Cristiano had the honour of
lifting the first major trophy in his country's history at UEFA EURO 2016,
secured by upsetting hosts France in the final in Paris. With his irrepressible
thirst for goals, power and speed, Ronaldo continues to amass silverware and
records in abundance
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· FRANCE
Having been named the best player both in the Spanish league, in
which he helped Atletico Madrid finish third, and at the UEFA EURO, 2016 will
go down as the year in which Antoine Griezmann truly came into his own. With 40
goals over the course of the 2015/16 campaign, he spearheaded Atletico and
France's respective charges to the finals of the UEFA Champions League and EURO
2016, although both ended in heart-wrenching defeats. A skilful, unselfish
attacker, the 5'9 (1.76m) schemer can quite simply do the lot. As Griezmann
himself recently told FIFA.com, he is a "more complete player
now" than ever before and has "improved in every way in the last two
years". One person who would certainly echo this view is his coach Diego
Simeone, who is on record as saying that the man they now call Grizou has
raised his game to such an extent that he is currently "among the top
three players in the world"
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· ARGENTINA
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Lionel Messi shows no signs of letting up. After rounding off 2015
by collecting the adidas Silver Ball at the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan, he
continued to figure large for club and country in 2016. In winning his eighth
La Liga winner’s medal with Barcelona, he chipped in with 20 goals (putting him
third in the scoring charts) and an impressive 16 assists, and also won the
Copa del Rey for a fourth time with Los Blaugrana and
the Spanish Super Cup for the seventh time. La Pulga also
starred for Argentina on their run to the final of Copa America Centenario,
serving up more assists in the tournament than any other player and ending it
as the second highest scorer. In the process, Messi also became La Albiceleste’s leading
all-time goalscorer.
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