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7:37 pm: Or polish Robert Lewandowski is chosen Best Player of the Year.
And now we find out why, at the beginning of the gala, Gianni Infantino appeared at a distance, by video call, to make his speech. Here he is in the same room as the Bayern Munich striker, in the pleasant cavaqueira with the Pole to hand him the trophy and ask him some questions, especially in German and therefore (I apologize) impossible to translate at the moment.
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19h29: And without further ado, the English player of the year Lucy Bronze.
The right wing won the French league and the Champions League last season with the almighty Lyon before moving to Manchester City. “The fact that I was nominated along with the other players is incredible. Winning this award now, this year, makes it even more important and I will never forget this moment in my life. I am so grateful to be back home.” He said. the Englishwoman, reacting to the award from a distance, in the comfort of her home.
19h20: Meanwhile, Megan Rapinoe reacted to her presence on the team of the year after a season in which she added 155 minutes and did not set foot on a field after March. But this is FIFA and these are the FIFA awards, it has been years and years of not only being interested in what is happening on the field and if there is a footballer very aware of this reality that is transversal to many entities, it is the American.
And he showed it in the message he published on social networks: “It was a surprise that I met the criteria to be part of the national team (…) the fact that I was selected shows, once again, that making football evolve Women – we need continued investment to give the opportunity for more players to be seen on television, both in their countries and globally, while representing their clubs and national teams. “
19h09: The most beautiful, moving, emotional and majestic moment of the night has arrived: a video tribute to Diego Armando Maradona, who died weeks ago.
After watching the video, there was a conversation with Sergio Goycochea – “we still have trouble talking about Diego in the past” -, who defended Argentina’s goal with him in the 1986 and 1990 World Cups, and Ciro Ferrara, who started his career in Naples and lived within the magnificent and unfiltered heyday of Maradona.
The Italian was asked what the Argentine was like in training, drawing on the melancholic grace that came out in his answer – “When he appeared, of course.”
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Then Ferrara also left a few words in memory of Paolo Rossi, who died last week. He was the best scorer in the 1982 World Cup that Italy won.
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19:05: And because in life it is also important to smile and laugh with her, this is the men’s eleven of the year, which does not include even one of Liverpool’s three forwards, who are probably the most effective, efficient and feared offensive trio in current football. . . In his place was probably the current best striker and, of course, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Alisson Becker (Brazil); Alexander Arnold (England), Virgil Van Dijk (Holland), Sergio Ramos (Spain) and Alphonso Davies (Canada); Joshua Kimmich (Germany), Kevin de Bruyne (Belgium) and Thiago Alcântara (Spain); Lionel Messi (Argentina), Robert Lewandowski (Poland) and Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal).
19h02: The time has come for the collective feature film at a football awards gala, which is a collective sport rather than an individual one, and the first of the best teams of the year is the women’s, which was this:
Christiane Endler (Chile); Lucy Bronze (England), Wendie Renard (France) and Millie Bright (England); Tobin Heat (United States), Veronica Boquete (Spain), Barbara Bonansea (Italy) and Megan Rapinoe (United States); Delphine Cascarino (France), Vivianne Miedema (Netherlands) and Pernile Harder (Denmark).
18h52: Or italian Mattia agnese wins the Fair Play award. He is only 17 years old and helped a rival during a match, who lost his senses after suffering a blow to the head, a distinction full of symbolism and opportunity, because this Wednesday the IFAB approved the start of the probationary period for an additional substitution, if such a crash occurs, a concussion is suspected and the player must leave the field.
Right after, Marivaldo Francisco da Silva received the Adept award, pretending only to laugh and cover his face with his hands. The distinction was awarded for having walked for 12 hours to be present at a Sport Recife match.
18h37: Now there is a surprise and in these things surprises are always healthy. Jurgen Klopp He is the winner of the Coach of the Year award and the first words he said, amid a kind of surprising nervousness, was to admit that “I was not expecting anything.”
The German finishes ahead of his compatriot Hans-Dieter Flick, who with Bayern Munich won literally everything that was available, and Argentina’s Marcelo Bielsa, who moved Leeds United to the Premier League and it turned out to be a surprise to be among the nominees.
The winning coach, as is his prerogative, spoke elbows in thanking the award and answering some questions from Arsène Wenger, who was still present. And, once again, Klopp overflowed a bit of his charisma, personable and deliberate, to give answers far beyond the circumstance.
18h32: After Arsène Wenger actually and physically appeared on stage, very happy and smiling, it was time to lift Sarina wiegman, coach of Holland – already announced as future England coach -, as Best Coach.
What gives us the opportunity to pull this winter night to throw the embers a bit next to us: in 2018, the technician gave an interview to Tribune Express, when they were in Portugal competing in the Algarve Cup.
The ideas of a European champion: “I’d rather win 4-2 than 2-0. We still have to gain a following, we can’t stay in the area “
Sarina Wiegman is 48 years old and has led the Dutch women’s national team for just over a year, long enough to win the Euro for the first time in history and leave the country in awe with a way of playing that has lived up to the football tradition. Dutch. “The first objective is to win, but to win you have to play well. I’d rather win 4-2 than 2-0. It’s much better for the public, especially in women’s football, because we still have to win over the fans. We can’t. stay. in front of the area to defend “, says the coach who did not know what it could be:” From a young age I knew I wanted to be a physical education teacher. Not a coach, because women were not coaches at that time. “
18h28: The first and perhaps the only trace of spectacularity of the ceremony was linked to Son of Heung-Min, elected winner of the Puskas Award. The South Korean forward won the distinction for a goal he scored for Tottenham against Burnley.
18h19: The winner of the Best Goalkeeper award is the usual giant in these adventures: Manuel Neuer. The Bayern Munich goalkeeper won the Champions League in Lisbon last summer, as well as the Bundesliga, the German Super Cup and Super Cup and the European Super Cup.
18h14: And the first prize winner of the night is Sarah bouhaddi, Olympique de Lyon and the French team (or not, because their disagreements with the coach are public) voted Best Female Goalkeeper.
6:10 pm: Soon after, a video of Marcus rashford say a few words, live, before receiving the Foundation Award for the works and deeds you have dedicated to England, where you have perhaps been the leading voice fighting for the government food voucher program to help more than 1 million disadvantaged children in the country.
It was probably the best goal of the English forward’s career. It can also be the most significant and relevant award of the night.
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18h06: And now Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, appeared, without ever appearing there because they told him he could not be, so a video was released in which he appears dressed in a tight tie, and everything, talking about the impact of the pandemic in football, on the death of Diego Armando Maradona and Paolo Rossi, on condolences and thanks.
In the end, he even promised to deliver the winner’s trophy to each of the winners as soon as possible.
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18h01: The gala has already started and the presenters of the service are Ruud Gullit and Reshmin Chowdhury, there alone and abandoned in a virtual stage.
5:54 pm: To fill in these temporary sausages that are still missing until the start of the gala, here is a piece of memory shared by Kaká, 13 years ago, in which several things stand out: 1) how fashions are temporary and maybe even good; 2) since none of the three participants seemed willing to smile; 3) how Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo stay there around the curves.
On December 17, 2007, the Brazilian was with the Argentine and the Portuguese in the three nominees for the Player of the Year award, which at that time was also still only from FIFA, before the incorporation of the entity (between 2010 and 2015). “Soccer of France”.
5:45 pm: Good afternoon and welcome to another edition of a series of individual awards that are supposed to be the best in the practice of a sport in which nothing can be achieved alone. This time it is the fifth edition of The Best, which belong to FIFA, they were the entity’s response to the Ballon d’Or of the magazine “France Football” and thus the world was left for another important discussion on which of the greats prizes will truly be the prize of prizes.
But there, these are waking dreams. Without rambling, there are four main prizes that will be awarded during this gala that also suffers from the time we live in and that will be held 100% online: Best Player, Best Player, Best Coach and Best Coach. In each of the equal distinctions there are three finalists, which we list below. Among them is, of course, the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo who will attempt to claim the distinction for the third time in his career.
Nominated for Best Player:
Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus / Portugal)
Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich / Poland)
Lionel Messi (Barcelona / Argentina)
Nominated for Best Player:
Lucy Bronze (Lyon / Manchester City / England)
Pernille Harder (Wolfsburg / Chelsea / Denmark)
Wendie Renard (Lyon / France)
Nominees for Best Coach:
Marcelo Bielsa (Leeds United)
Hans-Dieter Flick (Bayern Munique)
Jürgen Klopp (Liverpool)
Nominees for Best Coach:
Emma Hayes (Chelsea)
Jean-Luc Vasseur (Lyon)
Sarina Wiegman (Netherlands)
