FC Barcelona received the FIFA Club World Cup Champions Badge, a physical reminder of the club’s emphatic triumph in FIFA’s annual club event in Japan in December 2011. Following on from individual awards for Pep Guardiola and Lionel Messi at the FIFA Ballon d’Or, the Champions badge is an award for the whole team, serving [ Read More ]
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 [ Read More ]
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 [ Read More ]
Two-Time FIFA World Cup Champion Argentina Set to Face U.S. National Team at New Meadowlands Stadium Mar. 26 Cardenas Marketing Network announced that two-time FIFA World Cup Champion Argentina will take on the U.S. Men’s National Team on Saturday, Mar. 26 at the New Meadowlands Stadium at 7:00 p.m. ET. The match will be broadcast [ Read More ]
Argentina’s Lionel Messi collected the FIFA Ballon d’Or, his second consecutive title, while Brazil’s Marta continued her winning streak by claiming her fifth FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year award at the FIFA Ballon d’Or Gala held at the Zurich Kongresshaus on Monday evening. Meanwhile, José Mourinho, the Portuguese coach of Real Madrid, and [ Read More ]
€100,000 raised via uefa.com users’ Team of the Year 2009 UEFA will tonight present a cheque for €100,000 to Lionel Messi, who amassed almost 250,000 votes to be named the first-choice striker of the uefa.com users’ Team of the Year 2009, to be donated to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). William Gaillard, [ Read More ]
