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The big winners of this year’s The Best FIFA Football Awards ™ ceremony – held virtually from FIFA headquarters in Zurich – were Lucy Bronze and Robert Lewandowski, two female and male soccer stars respectively.
The Polish striker of FC Bayern München Robert Lewandowski has received The Best FIFA Player award for the first time in his career. Similarly, this was the first time that the defense Lucy Bronze has been crowned the best player in FIFA, following a flawless end to the season with Olympique Lyonnais before returning to England to enlist in the ranks of Manchester City WFC.
After winning the award in 2017, the current coach of the Dutch team Sarina wiegman has received The Best FIFA Women’s Coach Award for the second time in her career. On the other hand, Jurgen Klopp has earned The Best FIFA Men’s Soccer Coach for the second year in a row, having won their first Premier League with Liverpool FC after a 30-year drought in the English league. Regarding the award rules of the awards (art. 12), Klopp won the trophy against Hans-Dieter Flick (FC Bayern München) after a tight vote that was decided by the votes of the national selectors.
The German goalkeeper of FC Bayern München Manuel Neuer won The Best FIFA Goalkeeper award and Sarah bouhaddiOlympique Lyonnais French goalkeeper ends her incredible career with The Best FIFA Goalkeeper trophy.
Best team of the year
Thousands of footballers from around the world voted in the FIFA FIFPro World11 Men and FIFA FIFPro World11 Women awards to choose their ideal eleven for 2020:
FIFA FIFPRO World11 Men:
- Goalkeeper: Alisson Becker (Liverpool FC)
- Defenders: Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool FC), Alphonso Davies * (FC Bayern München), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid CF) and Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool FC) *
- Midfielders: Thiago Alcântara (FC Bayern München / Liverpool FC), Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City FC) and Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München)
- Forwards: Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus FC), Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) and Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona)
* Alphonso Davies was included as fourth defender according to the FIFA FIFPRO World11 Men’s award rules.
FIFA FIFPRO World11 Women:
- Goalkeeper: Christiane Endler (Paris Saint-Germain)
- Defenders: Millie Bright (Chelsea FC Women), Lucy Bronze (Olympique Lyonnais / Manchester City WFC) and Wendie Renard (Olympique Lyonnais)
- Midfielders: Barbara Bonansea (Juventus Women), Verónica Boquete (Utah Royals / AC Milan Women) and Delphine Cascarino (Olympique Lyonnais)
- Forwards: Pernille Harder (VfL Wolfsburg / Chelsea FC Women), Tobin Heath (Portland Thorns / Manchester United WFC), Vivianne Miedema (Arsenal WFC) and Megan Rapinoe (OL Reign) *
* Megan Rapinoe was included as fourth forward according to the FIFA FIFPRO World11 Women’s award rules.
Other awards
The goal after the impressive ride by the Tottenham forward was chosen as the best goal.
Due to lack of money for transportation, this fan walked twelve hours and crossed three cities to watch a match for his team. The Brazilian’s story was the one that got the most votes.
During a match, the young Agnese – 17 years old and a native of Ospedaletti (Liguria) – saw that an opponent had fallen to the ground and was knocked unconscious. Without a second’s hesitation, she ran to get him to a safe position, saving his life before medical services arrived.
Results
The winners of The Best awards for best male and female player and coach were determined by the votes cast by four groups of voters with equal weight in the result: the fans, a group of media professionals and the captains and captains and national coaches from around the world.
Here You can consult the breakdown of the votes, including the total points obtained by each of the nominees.
Below, you will find the link to the complete list of the votes of players, players, coaches and national selectors from around the world:
The voting process for all awards was supervised by independent observers from PricewaterhouseCoopers Switzerland. For more information on the procedure followed in each vote, see the Rules for awarding prizes.
