Manchester City footballer Rodri and Vinicius Junior from Real Madrid are among the nominees for the best players of 2024 in the selection of the International Football Federation (FIFA).
As FIFA announced today, among the nominees for The Best Fifa Football Awards are mainly players from Real Madrid, along with Manchester City, Barcelona and Bayer Leverkusen, and the only candidate who does not play in Europe is Lionel Messi from Inter Miami.
At the end of October, Rodri won the prestigious Ballon d'Or, which France Football awards to the best player of the previous year, and in the final of that vote he was better than Vinicius, whose club boycotted the award in protest because the Brazilian footballer was not awarded.
Other candidates are Dani Carvajal (Real Madrid), Erling Haaland (Manchester City), Federico Valverde (Real Madrid), Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen), Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid), Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain/Real Madrid), Lamin Jamal (Barcelona) and Toni Kroos who played for Real Madrid but ended his career at the end of last season.
Among the 16 candidates for the award are Ballon d'Or winner Aytana Bonmati (Barcelona), Lauren Hamp (Manchester City), Lucy Bronz (Barcelona/Chelsea) and Barbara Banda (Orlando Pride).
Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti, who has already been chosen by France Football as the best coach, has been nominated for the new award, along with Lionel Scaloni (Argentina), Luis de la Fuente (Spain), Pep Guardiola (Manchester City) and Xabi Alonso (Bayer). Leverkusen).
FIFA will also award the award for the best goalkeeper, and the nominees are Andrei Lunin (Real Madrid), David Raja (Arsenal), Ederson (Manchester City), Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa), Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint-Germain), Mike Magnan (Milan ) and Unaj Simon (Atletico Bilbao).
Also, the world house of football will reward the best coaches in the women's competition, the best goalkeeper in the women's competition, and will award prizes for the best goals in the men's (Puskas Award) and women's competition (Marta Award).
The winners will be chosen equally by the fans, captains, selectors of the men's and women's national teams and representatives of the media. Only fans will participate in the selection for the Fan Award, and experts will participate in the fair play.
Voting on the Fifa.com website will last until December 10 at 23.59:XNUMX p.m.
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