Cristiano Ronaldo was dropped from the three-man shortlist for FIFA’s 2021 finest participant award on Friday, with Mohamed Salah as a substitute.
Six-time FIFA laureates Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski are additionally candidates to win the award on January 17. Lewandowski gained final 12 months forward of Ronaldo and Messi.
No participant from Italy’s European Championship successful group or Chelsea’s Champions League title group was on the shortlist.
Five-time winner Ronaldo didn’t make the lower for less than the second time since being nominated for the primary time on the 2007 FIFA Awards. He missed out on the 2010 awards when Messi gained forward of Andres Iniesta and Xavi.
The final three within the race to be #finest FIFA Men’s Players 2021!
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With Ronaldo within the group, Juventus misplaced their long-held maintain on the Serie A title, completed fourth, and defending champions Portugal completed within the spherical of 16 at Euro 2020.
With Ronaldo within the group, Juventus misplaced their long-held maintain on the Serie A title, completed fourth, and defending champions Portugal had been eradicated within the spherical of 16 at Euro 2020. (file)
Joining the shortlist for the second time, Salah was rewarded for an additional distinctive 12 months with Liverpool. He completed third in 2018 behind winners Luka Modric and Ronaldo.
In a 12 months when Messi moved from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain, he helped Argentina win the Copa America to their first senior title with the nationwide group. He gained his seventh profession Ballon d’Or trophy final month.
Lewandowski broke two Bundesliga data by scoring 41 targets for Bayern Munich within the 2020-21 season and 43 targets within the 2021 calendar 12 months. Both factors had been held since 1972 by one other Bayern nice, Gerd Müller.
The nationwide group was voted on by coaches and captains, knowledgeable media and followers to make their decisions on FIFA’s web site. He chosen from a protracted checklist of gamers proposed by a FIFA-appointed panel.
Barcelona teammates Alexia Putelas and Jennifer Hermoso and Chelsea participant Sam Kerr had been named within the girls’s shortlist.
All three, historians. Final shortlist for #finest FIFA Women’s Players 2021 is right here.
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— FIFA Women’s World Cup (@FIFAWWC) 7 January 2022
Putelas gained the ladies’s Ballon d’Or final month, with Hermoso second and Kerr third.
FIFA will announce the winners in a web based ceremony from its headquarters in Zurich.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
