Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar Makes FIFA's Ballon d’Or Award Nominees For 2015

Date:

The Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) has on Monday announced the contenders for the FIFA Ballon d’Or Award for the best player of 2015 and for the FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year 2015 Award.

Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!

The list that was first released on FIFA.com, had the nominees listed in alphabetical order: Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal/Real Madrid), Lionel Messi (Argentina/FC Barcelona) and Neymar (Brazil/FC Barcelona).

Meanwhile, Carli Lloyd (USA/Houston Dash), Aya Miyama (Japan/Okayama Yunogo Belle), and Célia Šašić (Germany/1. FFC Frankfurt) are in the running for the women’s award.

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; and Jill Ellis (USA/USA 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.

All of the nominees were confirmed after a voting process, which was open to the captains and head coaches of the men and women’s national teams of the 207 member associations as well as international media representatives selected by FIFA and France Football.

The percentages of the collected votes are as follows (number of votes/number of associations):
Voting for men’s awards: 165
Member associations (captains & coaches):  79.71%
Media representatives: 88.60%

Voting for women’s awards: 136
Member associations (captains & coaches): 76,83%
Media representatives: 80.92%

The voting procedure for each of the awards was supervised and monitored by the independent observer PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Switzerland.

In addition, the three nominees for the FIFA Puskás Award for the “most beautiful goal of the year” were announced. The three final goals are: Alessandro Florenzi – 16.09.2015, AS Roma – FC Barcelona, UEFA Champions League / Wendell Lira – 11.03.2015, Atletico-GO –Goianesia, Campeonato Goiano (Brazil) / Lionel Messi – 30.05.2015, Athletic Bilbao  – FC Barcelona, Copa del Rey (Spain).

All of the awards will be presented at the FIFA Ballon d’Or award ceremony at theKongresshaus in Zurich on 11 January 2016 during a televised show, which will equally be streamed live on FIFA.com and FIFA on YouTube.

The award has been dominated by Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as part of their ongoing rivalry.

Ronaldo is the most recent recipient of the FIFA Ballon d’Or in 2014, after beating Messi and Manuel Neuer to the award.

Babatunde Akinsola
Babatunde Akinsolahttps://naija247news.com
Babatunde Akinsola is aNaija247news' Southwest editor. He's based in Lagos and writes on the Yoruba Nation political issues, news and investigative reports

Share post:

Subscribe

Popular

More like this
Related

FG directs banks to deduct 0.375% stamp duty charges on all loans

March 28, 2024. Azonuchechi Chukwu. The Federal Government has directed commercial...

INEC disowns Anambra LP convention

28 Mar,2024 The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disowned...

NDPC investigating over 400 cases of privacy breaches Involving digital lenders

March 28, 2024. Azonuchechi Chukwu. The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC)...

LASG releases land use charge bill for 2024, offers 15% discount on early payments

March 28, 2024. Azonuchechi Chukwu. The Lagos State Ministry of Finance...
Social Media Auto Publish Powered By : XYZScripts.com

Discover more from Naija247news

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading