Nominees for FIFA Ballon d’Or Awards Revealed
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.
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.
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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 voting procedure for each of the awards was supervised and monitored by the independent observer PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Switzerland.
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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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