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The Best FIFA Men's Player is an association football award presented annually by the sport's governing body, FIFA, since 2016, to honour the player deemed to have performed the best over the previous calendar year. [1] The award was formerly known as the FIFA World Player of the Year, which was merged with France Football ' s Ballon d'Or in ...
100 Best Male Footballers in the World. The Guardian 100 Best Male Footballers in the World is a list of the greatest male footballers published annually by the British newspaper The Guardian. From its inception to 2017, it was known as The Guardian 100 Best Footballers in the World. It is decided by a panel of experts from several nations. [1][2]
Between 2010 and 2015, in an agreement with FIFA, the award was temporarily merged with the FIFA World Player of the Year, and was known as the FIFA Ballon d'Or. That partnership ended in 2016, and the award reverted to the Ballon d'Or, while FIFA also reverted to its own separate annual award, The Best FIFA Men's Player.
Most recent. Erling Haaland. (1st award) Website. www.iffhs.com. The IFFHS World's Best Player is a football award given annually from 1988 to 1990, and since 2020, to the world's best player. The award is given by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). Marco van Basten, first winner of the award in 1988.
L–R: Daniel Passarella, Messi, and Diego Maradona; the three world champion captains with the Argentina national team Argentine footballer Lionel Messi, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, has been awarded a total of eight Ballon d'Or awards and three The Best FIFA Men's Player awards, the most for any player.
Players in bold are still active at international level. Players in italics also hold the record for most caps for their nation. Rank is a count of the 211 FIFA nations. Fourteen nations (Aruba, Azerbaijan, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Scotland, South Sudan, Suriname, United States and U.S. Virgin Islands) have a pair of players tied for national l
FR Germany's Franz Beckenbauer is the second, winning as both captain (1974) and manager (1990). Didier Deschamps is the third: he led France to victory in 1998 as captain, and then in 2018 as manager. Germany's Miroslav Klose is the only player to have won four World Cup medals: 2002 (silver), 2006, 2010 (both bronze) and 2014 (gold).
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos AveiroGOIHComM(Portuguese pronunciation:[kɾiʃˈtjɐnuʁɔˈnaldu]; born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese professional footballerwho plays as a forwardfor and captainsboth Saudi Pro Leagueclub Al Nassrand the Portugal national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Ronaldo has won five ...