20:35The Best
BEST PLAYER: ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI
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BEST PLAYER: ALEXIA PUTELLAS.
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TOP INTERNATIONAL SCORER: CHRISTINE SINCLAIR
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TOP INTERNATIONAL SCORER: CRISTIANO RONALDO
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BEST COACH: THOMAS TUCHEL
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BEST COACH: EMMA HAYES
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BEST GOALKEEPER: EDOUARD MENDY
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BEST GOALKEEPER: CHRISTIANE ENDLERThe Best
FAIRPLAY: DENMARK MEDICAL TEAM
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BEST FANS: FANS FROM DENMARK AND FINLAND.
20:26Before closing, we review all the winners.
20:26Until here the gala The Best of FIFA!
20:25CR7: “I have to thank my teammates for this. The previous record was 109. This is a special award from FIFA, an institution that I greatly respect. It is an honor to be the top scorer in national team football. I dedicate myself to my wife, my children… I enjoy it and my motivation is still there. I have worked very hard since I was eight years old. I hope to play four or five more years”.
20:22Cristiano Ronaldo, present in Zurich, appears at the gala to receive the award from Gianni Infantino.
20:21Do not go yet there is still more.
Cristiano Ronaldo receives the special award for his career in breaking the record for goals in the history of the national teams (115).
20:19“It is an honor to receive this award, which is also from my teammates and my coaches. It is for them,” says Lewandowski, who accepts the award accompanied by Salihamidzic, Oliver Kahn and Julian Nagelsmann.
20:17ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI, PREMIO THE BEST 2021.
Bayern’s Polish striker repeats the award.
20:16LET’S GO WITH THE BEST 2021. Messi, Lewandowski and Salah, the candidates.
20:15“I’m very happy and I have to be very grateful to my teammates”, says Alexia, who won the Ballon d’Or a few weeks ago. “In Spain there is talent but there was a lack of time and a project. Barça is doing an incredible job”.
20:14ALEXIA PUTELLAS, WINNER OF THE BEST 2021 AWARD!
20:13Gianni Infantino will announce the winner of The Best.
20:12Alexia speaks: “It’s a job of many years. 2021 was perfect, we were very successful and won the Champions League. We hope to continue like this”.
20:10Let’s go with the award for best player The Best.
Good luck to Alexia and Jenni!
20:05This is the eleven FIF PRO 2021:
Donnarumma; Alaba, Rúben Dias, Bonucci; Jorginho, Kante, De Bruyne; Cristiano Ronaldo, Haaland, Lewandowski and Leo Messi.
20:03It is the turn to know the male FIF Pro eleven. Matthäus and Wenger present the lineup.
20:01Banini, Atlético player included in the eleven: “It’s an honor to be with these great players. I feel very proud.
19:59El once FIF Pro The Best:
Endler; Broze, Renard, Bright, Eriksson; Banini, Lloyd, Bonansea; Miedema, Marta and Alex Morgan.
Not a single Barcelona player in the eleven. Inexplicable.
19:56Now we will know the ideal eleven of the year in women’s football.
19:51THE FANS OF DENMARK AND FINLAND, winners of The Best Award for the best fans after the Eriksen episode during the European Championship.
19:50The nominees: fans from Denmark and Finland, German fans who mobilized after the floods, and Imogen Papworth-Heidel.
19:48Julio César, former Inter goalkeeper, appears on stage to present the prize for the best supporter.
19:47“I am enjoying the moment, the club, the path we are taking. We have lost track of City in the fight for the Premier but we are a very ambitious club and we are alive in other competitions and we will give our best. We will continue to pursue our dreams says Thomas Tuchel.
19:45THOMAS TUCHEL, award winner
THE BEST to the best coach.
19:42Now we will know the award for best coach:
Mancini, Guardiola and Tuchel, the nominees.
Arsene Wenger will reveal the name of the winner.
19:40The Chelsea coach takes the award by surprising Lluís Cortés (winner of the treble with Barcelona) and Sarina Weigman. “I’m in shock,” says the coach.
19:39EMMA HAYES, winner of THE BEST Award for best trainer.
19:37Turn for the award for best women’s soccer coach. All the luck in the world for Lluís Cortés. The award is presented by the great Jill Ellis.
19:36“The award is for all of Denmark. I don’t know how we stayed calm, but we had to do it to save his life,” says one of the Danish team’s medical officers who saved Erksen’s life during the Denmark-Finland match at the last European Championship. .
19:34THE
PREMIO FAIR PLAY IT’S FOR THE
DANISH NATIONAL TEAM AND THE MEDICAL TEAM FOR SAVING THE LIFE OF
CHRISTIAN ERIKSEN.
19:33It’s time for the FIFA Fair Play Award: the nominees are the Danish national team medical team, Scott Brown and Claudio Ranieri.
19:31FIFA pays tribute to Gerd Müller, legend of Bayern Munich and the German national team, who died at the age of 75 last August. Nice video has dedicated the organization.
19:30The current Sevilla player takes the award for his rabona goal against Arsenal last season, when he was a member of the Tottenham ranks. “Honestly, I don’t practice it in training, I think about it at the last moment,” says the Argentine midfielder.
19:28ERIK LAMELA, WINNER OF THE PUSKAS AWARD 2021.
19:24Yaya Touré, a former Barcelona and City player, among others, appears to announce the award.
19:24Let’s go with the Puskas award for the best goal of 2021.
Lamela, Schick and Taremi, The candidates.
19:22The Chelsea goalkeeper meets Senegal in the Africa Cup of Nations. It seems that they have problems with the connection and at the moment there are no statements from the goalkeeper. The Senegalese takes the prize by surprise.
19:21EDWARD MENDY, THE BEST AWARD FOR THE BEST GOALKEEPER.
19:19Peter SchmeichelUnited legend appears on stage to present the award for best goalkeeper:
Donnarumma, Neuer y Mendy, The candidates.
19:18Endler: “I am very proud to be the first Latin American to win this award,” says the Chilean, who won The Best in her third nomination”
19:17CHRISTIANE ENDLER, BEST GOALKEEPER.
The Chilean from Lyon prevails over Labbé and Berger.
19:15TURN FOR THE BEST GOALKEEPER AWARD!
19:12appears on screen
Steve Nash, another distinguished Canadian, to congratulate Sinclair. “You have inspired me and my daughters. You have taken your team and your colleagues to another level. Congratulations on the Lifetime Achievement Award.”
19:11Sinclair: “What I am most proud of is being part of football since when nobody took us into account. Having been able to live the moment we are going through now makes me very happy. My goal is to continue fighting to carry forward the sport that I love so much”.
19:09Speaks
Christine Sinclair, the Canadian soccer player who has broken the record for international goals with 187 goals for her national team. “Thanks to FIFA for this recognition. I had to leave home very young to pursue my dreams and today I am here thanks to my family,” says the forward, winner of the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
19:05Infantino: “I welcome you all to the home of FIFA. We hope this will be the last time the gala is online. Football is coming back after two years of the pandemic. Health comes first but football gives us happiness and It helps us fight discrimination. We are here to celebrate football.”
19:03Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, appears.
19:01The Best 2021 gala begins!
18:51Countdown to the start of The Best Awards ceremony! The protagonists are already (telematically) at the Gala.
18:32Less than half an hour until the FIFA The Best Gala kicks off in Zurich!
18:19PREMIOS THE BEST 2020:
-Best Player: Robert Lewandowski.
-Best Player: Lucy Bronze.
-Best Goalkeeper: Manuel Neuer
-Mejor Portera: Sarah Bouhaddi
-Best Coach: Jürgen Klopp.
-Best Trainer: Sarina Wiegman
18:15We also review last year’s winners:
18:02We remember how the voting system works:
25% of the total votes are computed by the national selectors, another 25% by the captains, 25% by journalists and 25% by the public.
17:57Just over an hour until the FIFA The Best Gala kicks off! In Zurich they are already warming up engines.
17:52The prize that seems more open is that of the best goalkeeper. Donnarumma is endorsed by his great European Championship (he was chosen best player of the tournament), Neuer by his perseverance and regularity after almost 15 years in the elite, and Mendy by his decisive role in the Champions League won by Chelsea.
17:50In the category of best coach, all the spotlights point to Thomas Tuchel. Sacked mid-season by PSG, the German coach took charge of Chelsea in January and turned a floundering side into a Champions League winning machine.
17:46Robert Lewandowski is the main favorite to win The Best, an award he took last year. Leo Messi maintains his options thanks to the conquest of the Copa América despite his bad start to the season with PSG. Mohamed Salah, the third in discord, starts with fewer possibilities than the other two contenders.
17:43PUSKAS AWARD:
-Erik Lamela (Rabona goal with Tottenham against Arsenal)
-Patrick Schick (goal against Scotland in the European Championship)-Mehdi Taremi (goal with Porto against Chelsea)
17:40BEST GOALKEEPER:
-Ann-Katrin Berger (Chelsea)
-Christiane Endler (Lyon)
-Stephanie Lynn Marie Labbe (PSG)
17:39BEST GOALKEEPER
-Gianluigi Donnarumma (Italy/Milan/PSG)-Edouard Mendy (Chelsea)
-Manuel Neuer (Bayern de Munich)
17:37BEST COACH (Female)
-Lluís Cortés (Barcelona / Ukraine)
-Emma Hayes (Chelsea)
-Sarina Wiegman (Netherlands/England)
17:33BEST COACH:
-Pep Guardiola (Manchester City)-Thomas Tuchel (Chelsea)
-Roberto Mancini (Italy)
17:32BEST PLAYER:-Alexia Putellas (Barcelona)-Jennifer Hermoso (Barcelona)-Sam Kerr (Chelsea)
17:29MEJOR JUGADOR:-Leo Messi (Barcelona/PSG)-Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)-Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)
17:27To warm things up, we present all the nominees for the FIFA The Best Awards.
17:26Barcelona hopes that one of its two nominated players,
Alexia Putellas and Jennifer Hermoso, win The Best award. Putellas recently won the Ballon d’Or and is the main candidate to win the prestigious award. Chelsea player Sam Kerr is the other nominee.
17:25The gala will be held in Zurich starting at 7:00 p.m. The virtual ceremony can be followed on television in Spain through the GOLTelevisión channel.
17:23From now on we start with everything that gives of itself a ceremony that brings together the most important soccer players on the world scene.
17:22GOOD AFTERNOON AND WELCOME TO THE LIVE OF THE GALA DE LOS
PREMIOS THE BEST!