Monday 13 January 2014

Ballon D'Or: Some facts about the award

The FIFA Ballon d’Or was awarded for the fourth time tonight following the amalgamation of the FIFA World Player of the Year award with the Ballon d’Or France Football in 2010. 184 national team coaches, 184 national team captains and 173 media representatives voted for the FIFA Ballon d’Or. Ronaldo secured the title with 1,365 points, ahead of Lionel Messi with 1,205 points and Franck Ribéry with 1,127 points. 147 national team coaches, 146 national team captains and 88 media representatives voted for the FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year award. Nadine Angerer collected 612 points, ahead of Abby Wambach from the USA and Brazil’s Marta, who received 539 and 493 points respectively. 183 national team coaches, 185 national team captains and 173 media representatives voted for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men’s Football award. Jupp Heynckes secured the award with 1,806 points after he became the first-ever coach to win the treble with a German men’s team, namely the Bundesliga, the UEFA Champions League and the German Cup, ahead of Borussia Dortmund coach Jürgen Klopp with 766 points, and Sir Alex Ferguson, the former manager of Manchester United, who received 711 points. 146 national team coaches, 146 national team captains and 88 media representatives voted for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women’s Football award. Silvia Neid, who guided Germany, the youngest team at the UEFA Women’s EURO in Sweden, to an eighth continental crown, topped the poll with 1,036 points, ahead of Ralf Kellermann (445 points), coach of the VfL Wolfburg team that won the treble of German championship, German Cup and UEFA Champions League, and Pia Sundhage (430 points), coach of the Swedish women’s national team.

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