The International Federation for Football History and Statistics announced the lists of candidates for its annual awards. The selections included a number of players and coaches of the Saudi Professional League, including the al-nassr coach, Portuguese Luis Castro, and his compatriot Cristiano Ronaldo, as well as the al-hilal midfielder, Sergei Savic.
Argentine Ballon d’Or holder Lionel Messi has made the final list of nominees for this year’s Player of the Year award, as well as several other players, such as Saudi Arabia’s Cristiano Ronaldo, Liverpool’s Egyptian Mohamed Salah, Norwegian Erling Haaland, France’s Kylian Mbappe and Anton Griezmann and Argentmann.
The World Under-20 Player of the Year Award presents the list of candidates to be won by Real Madrid’s Jude Yellingham, Bayern Munich’s Germany’s Jamal Musiala, Barcelona’s Javi and Manchester United’s Argentine Garnacho.
The world’s best goalkeeper award presents the list of favourites to be won by Argentina and Stone Villa keeper Emiliano Martinez, Brazilian Ederson and Alison Becker, Man City and Liverpool goalkeeper, Italy’s Donarumma, Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois and German t Stegen.
Sergei Savic of al-hil advanced the list of the world’s best midfielder, as well as the Belgian Man City trio Kevin de Bruyne, Portuguese Bernardo Silva and Spain’s Rodri, as well as Man United’s Denmark’s Christian Eriksen, Real Madrid’s Tony Cross and Benfica’s Angel de Maria.
Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni advanced the list of candidates for the world’s best coach, along with France coach Didier Deschamps, England coach Gareth Southgate, Portuguese Egypt coach Roy Vitoria, and Albania’s Brazilian coach Silvinho.
The International Federation for Football History and Statistics (IFRS) is an independent institution of the International Football Federation (IFRS) and is working on an archive of soccer statistics in isolation from FIFA. It was founded in 1984 in the German city of Leipzig by Dr. Alfredo Bugi.
The Federation’s headquarters moved more than once until it settled in the Swiss city of Zurich since 2014, currently headed by Saleh Bahwini of Saudi Arabia.
