Almost 400,000 individual voters had their say in selecting the UEFA.com users‘ Team of the Year 2011 and the end product, announced today, is another team packed predominantly with Spain-based talent. Just as last year, eight Liga players feature in the Team of the Year and not surprisingly FC Barcelona, the reigning European champions, lead [...]
Argentina’s Lionel Messi won the FIFA Ballon d’Or 2011, his third consecutive title while Japan’s Homare Sawa claimed her first FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year award at the FIFA Ballon d’Or Gala held at the Zurich Kongresshaus. Pep Guardiola, the Spanish coach of FC Barcelona, and Japan’s women’s national team coach Norio Sasaki [...]
The contenders for this year’s FIFA Ballon d’Or Award for the best player of 2011 and for the FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year 2011 award were announced at the headquarters of France Football magazine in Paris. FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke, France Football CEO François Morinière, former French player Emmanuel Petit and Gaetane [...]
The poll gives the users of UEFA.com the chance to pick a team of players who have lit up the European game over the last 12 months. Voting will run until 12.00CET on Thursday 5 January, before the final lineup is announced on Wednesday 18 January on UEFA.com and in the January edition of Champions, [...]
