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CRISTIANO Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Brazilian Neymar have emerged as the three football players in the short list for the prestigious FIFA Ballon d’Or for 2015.
While Ronaldo will be hoping for a third successive win of the coveted award, Neymar and Messi, the two Barcelona players also look good enough to dethrone the Portuguese star.
Messi has already won the Ballon d’or for a record four times while Neymar who many see as the outsider in this shortlist is looking for his first win.
In a related development, the contenders for this year’s FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year 2015 Award have also been announced.
Carli Lloyd of the United States, who plays for Houston Dash; Aya Miyama, a Japanese who plays for Okayama Yunogo Belle and Célia Šašić of Germany, who plays for 1. FFC Frankfurt, are the trio in the running for the women’s award.
Also, the candidates for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men’s Football and FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women’s Football awards have also been announced. In alphabetical order, the contenders are:
Pep Guardiola, Spain/FC Bayern Munich; Luis Enrique Martínez, Spain/FC Barcelona; Jorge Sampaoli, Argentina/Chilean national team; for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men’s Football award.
Others Jill Ellis, US/US national team; Mark Sampson, Wales/English national team; and Norio Sasaki, Japan/Japanese national team, for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women’s Football award.
According to the FIFA, all of the nominees were confirmed after a voting process, which was open to the captains and head coaches of the men’s and women’s national teams of the 207 member associations as well as international media representatives selected by the FIFA and France Football.
All of the awards will be presented at the FIFA Ballon d’Or award ceremony at the Kongresshaus in Zurich, on January 11, 2016, during a televised show to be streamed live on the FIFA.com and the FIFA on YouTube.
— Dec 14, 2015 @ 01:00 GMT
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