The annual football awards for the outstanding performers of the game, The Best FIFA Football Awards 2016 will be held on 9th January in the Swiss city of Zurich, the place where FIFA headquarters are situated.
All eyes will be on Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi as to who will be adjudged the best this time for The Best FIFA Men’s Player award to be given by the world football governing body FIFA in the newly rebranded The Best FIFA Football Awards 2016. This contest between the two has been a regular fixture every award season since 2008. The odds seem to be in Ronaldo’s favour this time as his country, Portugal and club, Real Madrid excelled at the top level and won the top (continental) honours that were available the last year, the UEFA Euro 2016 and Champions League respectively while Lionel Messi’s Argentina finished runners-up in their continental championship, Copa América Centenario. His club, FC Barcelona though managed to win the Spanish league honour, the La Liga. Also, Ronaldo’s Madrid managed to win the FIFA Club World Cup 2016 in December.
Meanwhile the third person in contention for the Men’s top honour apart from the two is the Frenchman Antoine Griezmann, whose country and club finished runners up in both the Euro and Champions League. He also won the Best Player award and also was the the top scorer of tournament in the UEFA Euro 2016.
The other awards which are up for grabs are The Best FIFA Women’s Player, The Best FIFA Men’s Coach, The Best FIFA Women’s Coach, Fair Play Award, Puskás Award for the best goal of the year and Fan Award. Apart from the awards, a team combined of the best players at each position will be announced as the FIFA FIFPro World11.
The other big names in the fray for awards are Claudio Ranieri and Zinedine Zidane for the best manager and Marta for the best female player award. Also, Liverpool and Borussia Dortmund supporters combined have been nominated for the fan award for singing together their similar club anthems, “You’ll Never Walk Alone” while keeping aside their sporting rivalry during their Europa League meeting in April last year .
The awards this year will be the first time since FIFA decided to stop presenting the awards in collaboration with the magazine France Football, which gives awards for the best male player of the year known as the Ballon D’Or. FIFA started giving the annual awards for the best performers since 1991. It then collaborated with the french magazine to setup the FIFA Ballon D’Or since 2009 until last year.
The award ceremony will take place in Zurich, home of FIFA on Monday, 9th January. This gala event will be hosted by American actress Eva Longoria and German tv host, Marco Schreyl.
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