Best Fifa Football Awards winners to be announced on Monday

Last updated on 23 September 2018.From the section Football139

The world's best male and female footballers will be named at the Best Fifa Football Awards in London on Monday.

Cristiano Ronaldo, Luka Modric and Mohamed Salah are the finalists for the men's player award for 2018 - with no place for Lionel Messi.

Ada Hegerberg, Dzsenifer Marozsan and Marta are the nominees for the women's player award.

Gareth Bale is one of 10 candidates for the Fifa Puskas goal of the year.

The other awards are for the Best Fifa goalkeeper, men's coach, women's coach, fan award, fair play award and Fifpro World XI.

British actor Idris Elba and French journalist Anne-Laure Bonnet host the show at the Royal Festival Hall, which starts at 18:30 BST.

This is the third year of the Best Fifa awards after the world governing body's six-year association with the Ballon d'Or came to an end.

Men's player

This is the first year since 2006 that Lionel Messi has not been in the final three of Fifa's top award - then called the Fifa World Player of the Year. It will also be the first time since 2010 that Ronaldo and Messi have not been the top two in either order.

The final three was named on 3 September - with the winners of the men's and women's player and coach awards being decided by 25% from national team coaches, 25% from national team captains, 25% from select media representatives and 25% online vote.

Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid, now Juventus and Portugal)

The 33-year-old - who has won both Best Fifa awards so far - is nominated after a season in which he won his fifth Champions League title. He scored 15 goals to ensure he would be top scorer in the competition for a sixth consecutive season - including a shared one in 2014-15.

He scored 44 goals in as many games in all competitions for Real Madrid - including 18 in his final 10 La Liga games. Ronaldo then scored four times at the World Cup for Portugal to make him the second top scorer in international football history.

A £99.2m move to Juventus followed this summer, where he will bid to win the Champions League with a third different side.

Luka Modric (Real Madrid and Croatia)

Modric, who is 33 like his former team-mate, enjoyed arguably the best year of his career as he too won a third consecutive Champions League trophy - before reaching the World Cup final with Croatia.

In the summer his international team-mate Dejan Lovren said: "Modric would probably be getting more attention if he was German or Spanish. He would maybe even be a Ballon d'Or winner."

The former Tottenham midfielder won the Golden Ball award for the best player in the World Cup after their final defeat by France. He scored in their opening two matches and also set up one goal.

Mohamed Salah (Liverpool and Egypt)

The 26-year-old had the season of his career to take Liverpool to the Champions League final and Egypt to the World Cup - although he ended up without a trophy.

Following a £34m move from Roma in June 2017, he scored 44 goals in 52 games for Liverpool, winning the Premier League Golden Boot on his return to English football after a disappointing spell at Chelsea earlier in his career.

A shoulder injury suffered in the Champions League final meant he was not fully fit in Egypt's first World Cup since 1990 - but he did still manage two goals in as many games.

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Women's player

Last year's winner, Lieke Martens of Barcelona and the Netherlands, did not make the final 10 this time. England's Lucy Bronze made that list but was cut from the final three.

Ada Hegerberg (Lyon)

The 23-year-old, who is currently on an international break from Norway, scored 53 goals in 32 games last season as Lyon won the Ligue 1 and Champions League double for a third consecutive season.

She scored 15 goals in the Champions League - a record for a single season - and 31 goals in 20 league appearances.

Hegerberg, the 2017 BBC Women's Footballer of the Year, has three years left on her Lyon deal - a contract length rarely seen in women's football.

Dzsenifer Marozsan (Lyon and Germany)

The 26-year-old Germany captain also won the Ligue 1 and Champions League double with Lyon last season.

The midfielder led her country to five wins out of six in Women's World Cup qualifying and was named in the Women's Champions League squad of the tournament.

In July it was announced she had a pulmonary embolism, which occurs when a blood vessel in the lungs is blocked.

Marta (Orlando Pride and Brazil)

The 32-year-old has made the final three for Fifa's top award for the 13th time in her career and is looking to win for the sixth time.

She led Brazil to the Copa America in April, as they won all seven matches - although she only scored one of their 31 goals.

Marta scored 13 goals and set up six more as Orlando Pride reached the NWSL play-off semi-finals in the United States - earning herself a place in the league's team of the year.

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Men's coach

The three nominated coaches are French duo Zinedine Zidane, Didier Deschamps and Croat Zlatko Dalic.

Zidane left Real Madrid after guiding them to a third consecutive Champions League and Deschamps led France to World Cup glory, beating Dalic's Croatia in the final.

The 2017 award was won by Zidane, with Claudio Ranieri winning in 2016 after taking Leicester to the Premier League title.

Women's coach

The nominated trio are Reynald Pedros, Asako Takakura and Sarina Wiegman.

Former France men's midfielder Pedros took Lyon to the Ligue 1-Champions League double in his first season in charge, Takakura led Japan to the Asian Cup title and Wiegman took the Netherlands to the World Cup qualifying play-offs.

Wiegman secured the award last year after the Netherlands won Euro 2017.

Fifa Puskas goal of the year

Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo are among the 10 candidates for goal of the year for their Champions League bicycle kicks for Real Madrid last season. Four nominees were World Cup strikes - Lionel Messi, Benjamin Pavard, Ricardo Quaresma and Denis Cheryshev.

Mohamed Salah's Premier League goal for Liverpool against Everton in a 1-1 draw in December is shortlisted. Also included are Riley McGree for Australian side Newcastle Jets, Giorgian de Arrascaeta for Cruzeiro of Brazil and Lazaros Christodoulopoulos for AEK Athens against Olympiakos, whom he has since joined.

View some of the goals here (UK only)...

Goalkeeper

The three nominees for goalkeeper of the year were all in the Premier League last year.

Belgian Thibaut Courtois joined Real Madrid from Chelsea, Tottenham captain Hugo Lloris helped France to win the World Cup and Leicester and Denmark keeper Kasper Schmeichel is a slightly surprising candidate.

Gianluigi Buffon - then of Juventus and Italy - won the inaugural award last season.

Fifpro World XI

There are 55 candidates for the Fifpro World XI - including England trio Kyle Walker (Man City), Kieran Trippier and Harry Kane (both Spurs). There are 13 other current Premier League players are on the shortlist...

David de Gea (Man Utd), Dejan Lovren (Liverpool), Yerry Mina (Everton), Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool), Kevin de Bruyne (Man City), Eden Hazard (Chelsea), N'Golo Kante (Chelsea), Nemanja Matic (Man Utd), Paul Pogba (Man Utd), David Silva (Man City), Romelu Lukaku (Man Utd), Sadio Mane (Liverpool), Mohamed Salah (Liverpool).

Fan award and fair play award

The options for the fan award are Sebastian Carrera - the only away fan in a Chilean second division game, Peru fans at the World Cup and Japan and Senegal supporters - a joint nomination after they cleaned stadiums in Russia.

Their is no confirmed shortlist for the fair play award.

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Comment posted by SamB, at 22:11 23 Sep 2018
@6 "What a farce that Salah is nominated. One season wonder"

Ok...

1) he's not

2) This award is based on 1 season!
Comment posted by MH, at 20:57 23 Sep 2018
Insane that Messi is not there. The best goalscorer and creator in La Liga. Most goals, most assists, most chances created. And he did that playing deeper than he has in the past, more an attacking midfielder. As good as Salah was, Messi was levels above.
Comment posted by OllieMattTurner, at 10:24 24 Sep 2018
"Their is no confirmed shortlist for the fair play award."

Did a twelve year old write this?

There*
Comment posted by SamB, at 00:53 24 Sep 2018
@17 "You only need to look at his career stats to tell that Salah is the very epitome of a one season wonder"

Just looked at the 'stats' mate and for club and country Salah has a career average of 0.44 goals per game. That's (significantly in some cases) better than other wide players such as Hazard, Sanchez, Sane, Son, Willian, Pero, Mahrez! Heck, it's over twice the ratio of Ryan Giggs!
Comment posted by Fabby, at 21:23 23 Sep 2018
Not sure how Modric doesn't win this. Was the cornerstone behind Real Madrid's Champions League triumph and Croatia's historic world cup run. My only additional point is Rakitic deserves a mention, he is certainly operating at a similar level to Modric at the moment.

On a side note, I hope Lazaros Christodoulopoulos wins the Puskas award just to hear the Fifa bloke pronounce his name.
Comment posted by JamesBlack, at 00:15 24 Sep 2018
Ronaldo doesn't deserve it for sure. He was non existent in the CL semis and final. He scored a lot in laliga after XMas when the league was gone. RM needed him in the games they dropped points before XMas. Modric prob for me, as it seems heavily weighted to team achievements, otherwise it would be Messi every year.
Comment posted by SolmonO, at 22:03 23 Sep 2018
Messi has been the best but we are so used to it that unless his team wins the CL or world cup his achievements don't stand out so much in comparison to previous years as they win la liga nearly every season.
Comment posted by stemfr, at 23:02 23 Sep 2018
As an LFC fan... it has to be Modric. Best centre mid in the world. ECL winner and WC Finalist for little Croatia.
Comment posted by the observant one, at 23:05 23 Sep 2018
Won the champions league and got to the final of the World Cup has to be Modric.

From a Liverpool fan.
Comment posted by RPGDave, at 18:03 24 Sep 2018
i really hope Salah don't win it. he is like vardy one great season breaks all records now his form not as good. liverpool fans are doing my head in, not won anything for years but once they feel they in with a chance of winning anything they get so big headed.
Comment posted by D1710452610937, at 08:21 24 Sep 2018
So best player, best goal keeper, best coach etc

When will awards ceremony recognise the contribution from players from every position?
Why no best defender, best midfielder, best striker awards?

It is after all a team game and no player is an island
Comment posted by FlyMoon, at 22:17 23 Sep 2018
@6. Alan

You do recognize that this award is only for ONE season. If it's for history, maybe they should add Messi, Maradona and Pele!
Comment posted by daayne, at 13:10 24 Sep 2018
@ 46. SomewhereElse - The award is based on footballing achievements and that alone and over the past year Modric has deserved it. Got Croatia to the final of the Euros with some brilliant performances and won the Champions League for the fourth time and the third time in a row with Real Madrid. A top, top footballer worthy of the award.
Comment posted by Sam R, at 15:43 24 Sep 2018
All these keyboard pundits can't be wrong about Mohamed Salah. I think he should withdraw his nomination from the award and pretend he didn't score 48 goals last season.
Comment posted by TT, at 17:39 24 Sep 2018
72 In reality, Real Madrid would more than likely have won the Champions League regardless of Salah crying off after half an hour or whatever it was. I bet you any money you like that he'd have carried on if the World Cup hadn't been round the corner as well.

Madrid had already knocked out PSG, Bayern Munich & Juventus in an historic run to 3-in-a-row. And Klopp always loses finals.
Comment posted by Fabby, at 22:50 23 Sep 2018
Oh another thing, I'm guessing Varane isn't a fashionable enough name to win these type of contests? Possibly the most underrated player in world football; won the Champions League and World Cup and (to appease Liverpool fans) he didn't injure Salah.

Deserves a mention at the very least.
Comment posted by sambhu, at 14:10 24 Sep 2018
Where is Harry Penalty Kane?
Comment posted by User0655216831, at 10:18 24 Sep 2018
Apparently mike Ashley and his Muppet mates never rated modric. In Keegans second stint as manager he wanted modric. This was before spurs signed him. So a meeting was organised and half way through the meeting one of Ashleys clowns said to Keegan "listen we don't think he's strong enough for the premiership so we're not signing him" These are the idiots running NUFC.. Keegans books out very soon
Comment posted by D1679092449428, at 18:44 24 Sep 2018
83 Aiden Hazard
If Salah is nominated then Kane should too. Only scored a couple of goals fewer
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But Salah goal count were all goals he actually scored, not the made up begged for "goals" Kane had
Comment posted by Nic77, at 16:50 24 Sep 2018
@66 "Cannot believe that salah is even considered, one worldie season"

I'm sorry, do people thin this is a best of the generation award? Or an all time great award? It is an award for last season! A season in which Salah got 44 goals without taking penalties, deserves to be included.