The contenders for this year’s FIFA Ballon d’Or Award for the best
player of 2015 and for the FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year
2015 Award have been announced today on FIFA.com,
francefootball.fr and on FIFA’s YouTube channel in a show hosted
by Kate Abdo (Sky Sports) with expert analysis from Nadine
Kessler (German national team player and FIFA Women’s World
Player of the Year 2014) and Edgar Davids (former Dutch national
team player and winner of the UEFA Champions League
1994-1995).
The nominees for the FIFA Ballon d’Or are, 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’s 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 the Kongresshaus in Zurich on 11 January 2016 during
a televised show to be streamed live on FIFA.com and FIFA on
YouTube.
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