Lionel Messi, Sergio Ramos, Zinedine Zidane on FIFA's The Best Awards shortlist
The Best Awards, FIFA’s annual gala for celebrating the most impressive players and coaches in the game, are scheduled to take place in December and several LaLiga Santander stars have been named on the various shortlists for the awards.
This certainly isn’t the first time. In each of the first four editions of these awards, The Best FIFA Men’s Player prize went to a LaLiga Santander footballer. Cristiano Ronaldo won it twice while still at Real Madrid, Luka ModriÄ won it once and Lionel Messi took the honour last year. In addition to that, Real Madrid’s Thibaut Courtois has one The Best FIFA Men’s Goalkeeper award to his name and Los Blancos coach Zinedine Zidane has been crowned The Best FIFA Men’s Coach once before.
This year, Sergio Ramos and Lionel Messi are on the shortlist for The Best FIFA Men’s Player, Thibaut Courtois, Jan Oblak and Marc-Andre ter Stegen have been nominated for The Best FIFA Men’s Goalkeeper and Julen Lopetegui and Zinedine Zidane are among the choices for The Best FIFA Men’s Coach.
Lionel Messi
The 2019 winner of the top FIFA award is nominated again after yet another world-class campaign. For the fourth season in a row, Messi won the Pichichi Trophy as LaLiga Santander’s top scorer and he even became the first player to ever have 20+ goals and 20+ assists in the same season in Spain’s top division.
Sergio Ramos
The Real Madrid captain had an excellent 2019/20 season, leading his club to the LaLiga Santander title with his rock-solid defence and his career-high 11 league goals. The aim all along was to get his hands back on the LaLiga Santander trophy and Ramos achieved that, in addition to setting records with Spain, becoming the most capped player in Spanish and European history.
