Messi, Ronaldo, Neuer Tipped for FIFA Ballon D’Or

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December 1, 2014 -Federation of International Football (FIFA) today announced three finalist for the Ballon D’or coming up later on in the year.

“In alphabetical order, the FIFA Ballon d’Or nominees are: Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Lionel Messi (Argentina) and Manuel Neuer (Germany), while Nadine Kessler (Germany), Marta (Brazil) and Abby Wambach (USA) will contest the women’s award”, FIFA said.

It added that candidates for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men’s Football are Carlo Ancelotti (Italy/Real Madrid CF), Joachim Loew (Germany/German national team) and Diego Simeone (Argentina/Atletico de Madrid).

Nominees for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women’ s Football award are Ralf Kellermann (Germany/VfL Wolfsburg), Maren Meinert (Germany/Germany U-19 and U-20 national teams) and Norio Sasaki (Japan/Japan national team).

FIFA said that all the nominees were confirmed after a voting process which was open to the captains and head coaches of the men’s and women’s national teams of the 209 member associations as well as to international media representatives selected by FIFA and France Football.

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