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UEFA announced the nominees for the Best Player in Europe award for the 2019/2020 season and the final list featured 3 players, not including Messi, Ronaldo and Mohamed Salah, and included the German duo Manuel Neuer and the Polish Robert Lewandowski Bayern Munich, along with Belgian Kevin De Bruyne. Manchester City player.
UEFA released the list based on the choices of a jury that includes the coaches of the clubs that participated in the Champions League last season and the European League, as well as 55 journalists representing the member associations in UEFA, and the final list saw the exclusion of a group of great players and Lionel Messi came in fourth, equally with Neymar. Da Silva, in sixth place, Thomas Muller, player and seventh of Bayern Munich, Kylian Mbappé of Paris Saint-Germain, then Thiago Alcántara in eighth place, Kimmic of Bayern Munich in ninth place, then Cristiano Ronaldo in tenth and last place among the players nominated for the Best European Award..
The winning player will receive the best prize, on October 1, in the draw for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League for the 2020/2021 season..
It should be noted that the last to achieve this award was Virgil van Dyck last season, beating Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi..
For the first time since the implementation of the new awards system in the 2010-2011 season, the final list saw Messi and Ronaldo absent together, with the Portuguese winning the award 3 times and the Argentine twice.
