Sorry Liverpool, no hat-trick of triumphs for you tonight. Lionel Messi
and not Virgil van Dijk wins FIFA Men's Footballer of the Year Award.
Messi beat Virgil van Dijk and Cristiano Ronaldo to win the award, which
happens to be his sixth FIFA Footballer of the Year Award. Virgil Van Dijk came
second, and Cristiano Ronaldo, third. Ronaldo was not in attendance this year, same as last year. Messi is now one major step ahead of Ronaldo in terms of
Messi's exploits for the 2018/2019 football season include:
- His 51 goals for Barcelona in 2018-19 - the highest in the top five European Leagues (England, Spain, Italy, France & Germany) and a country mile ahead of Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski who scored 11 goals fewer.
- Helping Barcelona reach the Champions League semi-final and Copa del Rey final.
- Claiming the European Golden Shoe as the Europe's top goalscorer
- Being La Liga's top scorer and top assist-maker.
- Lifting the LaLiga and Supercopa de Espana titles.
- Helping Argentina to bronze at 2019 Copa America.
Liverpool already registered a brace of awards tonight with
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp picking up Men's Coach of the Year and Alisson
Becker, Men's goalkeeper of the Year.
USA manager Ellis beat England manager Phil Neville and to the award -
and was handed the award by managerial legend Jose Mourinho. On receiving the
award, she said, “Getting this from you is sick an hour.
“What a ride. I want to thanks Phil and Serena for making this job so
hard. I congratulate all the other coaches in the category.
“I would like to thank my spectacular player’s they are truly amazing,
they are the best.
“As a coach we know without the latent, and the commitment of the
player's we don't achieve this trophy."
Here's a full list of tonight's FIFA award winners.
Best Fifa Men's Player
- Cristiano
Ronaldo
- Lionel
Messi - WINNER!
- Virgil
van Dijk
Best Fifa Women's Player
- Lucy
Bronze
- Alex
Morgan
- Megan
Rapinoe
Best Fifa Men's Coach
- Pep
Guardiola
- Jurgen
Klopp - WINNER!
- Mauricio
Pochettino
Best Fifa Women's Coach
- Jill
Ellis - WINNER!
- Phil
Neville
- Sarina
Wiegman
Fifa Puskas Award
- Lionel
Messi
- Juan
Fernando Quintero
- Daniel
Zsori - WINNER!
Best Fifa Men's Goalkeeper
- Alisson Becker -
WINNER!
- Ederson
- Marc-Andre
ter Stegen
Best Fifa Women's Goalkeeper
- Christiane
Endler
- Hedwig
Lindahl
- Sari
van Veenendaal - WINNER!
Fifa Fan Award
- Silvia
Grecco - WINNER!
- Justo
Sanchez
- Netherlands
fans
FIFPro Men's World XI
- Alisson
Becker (BRA) - Liverpool
- Matthijs de Ligt (NED) - Ajax / Juventus
- Sergio
Ramos (ESP) - Real Madrid
- Virgil
van Dijk (NED) - Liverpool
- Marcelo
(BRA) - Real Madrid
- Luka
Modric (CRO) - Real Madrid
- Frenkie de Jong (NED) - Ajax/Barcelona
- Eden
Hazard (BEL) - Chelsea/ Real Madrid
- Cristiano
Ronaldo (POR) - Juventus
- Kylian Mbappe (FRA) - Paris Saint-Germain
- Lionel
Messi (ARG) - Barcelona
FIFPro Women's World XI
- Sari
van Veenendaal (NED) - Arsenal / Atletico Madrid
- Lucy
Bronze (ENG) - Olympique Lyonnais
- Wendie
Renard (FRA) - Olympique Lyonnais
- Nilla
Fischer (SWE) - VfL Wolfsburg / Linkopings
- Kelley
O'Hara (USA) - Utah Royals
- Amandine
Henry (FRA) - Olympique Lyonnais
- Julie
Ertz (USA) - Chicago Red Stars
- Rose
Lavelle (USA) - Washington Spirit
- Megan
Rapinoe (USA) - Reign FC
- Marta
(BRA) - Orlando Pride
- Alex
Morgan (USA) - Orlando Pride
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