Best 2023: FIFA announces the final candidates for the best player in the world | International football

On Thursday, FIFA announced the three finalists for the World Player of the Year award at The Best 2023 ceremony. The current winner of the award is the Argentine star. MessiformerParis Saint-Germain Currently competing at Inter Miami are the Norwegian Haaland, the Manchester City player, and the Frenchman Mbappe, the Paris Saint-Germain player. The winner will be revealed at the ceremony scheduled to be held in London on January 15, 2024.

For men, The Best 2023 has a shorter evaluation period than usual, running from December 19, 2022, the day after the World Cup in Qatar, until August 20, 2023.

Haaland finished the European season by scoring 55 goals, 32 of which came during the period allotted for The Best. This has earned him, among many accolades, UEFA’s UEFA Player of the Year for the 2022/23 season, the Golden Boot with a record 36 goals in the Premier League, and top scorer in the Champions League (12 goals). It was also necessary for Manchester city Winning the Triple Crown: Champions League, Premier League and an unprecedented FA Cup.

Messi became the top scorer in the five major leagues in Europe (England, Spain, Italy, Germany and France), with 496 goals. He and Mbappé concluded the European season with the French Championship title.

How FIFA The Best works

FIFA has been awarding the FIFA World Player of the Year award since 1991, and the FIFA World Player of the Year award since 2001. The FIFA World Player of the Year award in its current format was created in 2016. The current ceremony also awards the best goalkeeper, the best goalkeeper, and the best coach in the world. Male football, the best coach or the best coach in women’s football, the most beautiful goal in the Puskas Award, and also fair and encouraging play.

The entity’s technical council, made up of former players, determines the list of nominees for the men’s awards. For The Best 2023, they’ve formed this board:

• Kaka (Brazil)
• Petr Cech (Czech Republic)
• Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast)
• Brett Emerton (Australia)
• Ferdinand River (England)
• Asamoah Gyan (Ghana)
• Mario Kempes (Argentina)
• Alex Lalas (USA)
• John Obi Mikel (Nigeria)
• Park Ki-sung (South Korea)
• Ivan Vecelic (New Zealand)

The award’s electoral college then determines the winner. This college consists of journalists, captains, coaches of national teams and the public, through online voting. Each group has a weight of 25% of the final grade.

Since 2016, FIFA has used the European season as an analysis period. However, with the World Cup taking place at the end of the year in 2022, FIFA The Best 2022 has taken into account a year and a half in the voting: from August 2021 to December 2022. FIFA The Best 2023, with the rating from December 2022 to August 2023, is Modified compared to the model used in previous years.

The FIFA World Player of the Year award was combined with the Ballon d’Or, a traditional award given by France Football, between 2010 and 2015. However, the two awards are now separate and have different voting models. Messi won the Ballon d’Or for the eighth time.