NO AFRICAN IN PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2009.

Thursday, 10 December 2009

FIFA PLAYER OF THE YEAR ....My Money is on MESSI

Messi ,Barca , Argentina.Is he the Next WFOTY?

The contenders for this year’s FIFA World Player of the Year and FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year awards, which will be presented at the Kongresshaus in Zurich, FIFA’s home city, on 21 December 2009, were announced on Monday. In alphabetical order, the male nominees are Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Andres Iniesta (Spain), Kaka (Brazil), Lionel Messi (Argentina) and Xavi (Spain), while Cristiane (Brazil), Inka Grings (Germany), Marta (Brazil), Birgit Prinz (Germany) and Kelly Smith (England) will contest the women’s award.



These nominees were confirmed after a poll in which the coaches and captains of men’s and women’s national teams from around the world voted for candidates from a list drawn up by football experts from the FIFA Football Committee and the FIFA Committee for Women’s Football
The FIFA World Player Gala 2009 will have a number of exciting new features, including two new awards:
• The FIFA/FIFPro World XI, which will honour the best 11 players of the year as chosen by over 50,000 professional football players from all over the world.

Africa's legion of foreign and home-based players must step up their games to make a better showing next year. Kanu,Drogba, Adebayor , Martins and others we consider as worthy nominees must chase Geoge Weah's and Samuel Etos' legacy and do the motherland proud once more. For starters the nations cup in an Angola promise an explosion of sort. REMEMBER TO FOLLOW RadioAfrica1 our sports channel and our international channel to get afresh take to the game from our team of seasoned and tested reporters a and analysts.

George Weah of Liberia (1995)  is the only African to win the coveted award.

• The FIFA Puskás Award, created in honour and in memory of Ferenc Puskás, the captain and star of the Hungarian national team during the 1950s, will be presented to the player – man or woman – who has scored the prettiest goal of the year contenders for this year’s FIFA World Player of the Year and FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year awards, which will be presented at the Kongresshaus in Zurich, FIFA’s home city, on 21 December 2009, were announced on Monday. In alphabetical order, the male nominees are Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Andres Iniesta (Spain), Kaka (Brazil), Lionel Messi (Argentina) and Xavi (Spain), while Cristiane (Brazil), Inka Grings (Germany), Marta (Brazil), Birgit Prinz (Germany) and Kelly Smith (England) will contest the women’s award.