With the Ballon d’Or awards not taking place in the year 2020 due to the effect of the pandemic, a special award will be handed out tagged of the Player of the Century. Globe Soccer Awards, organised by EFAA (European Association of Player’s Agents) and the ECA (European Club Association) have come up with 28 nominees for the prestigious award.
France Football who regularly holds the annual Ballon d’Or awards claim that there is a lack of sufficient fair conditions to give the award to any player in all categories.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have dominated the awards for over a decade and the Barcelona star who currently holds the 2019 edition, will remain unchallenged until 2021. Such decision received heavy criticism across the world due to the fact that the season was eventually completed and German star Robert Lewandowski had been tipped to win it.
However, the Bayern Munich striker can have a chance to claim the award of the Player of the Century after Globe Soccer Awards mentioned him alongside other nominees on Twitter. The Globe Soccer Award has only been happening since 2010 when only four awards were handed out – and in 2012 they named Diego Maradona as the ‘Best Player of the Century.’ Presumably, that award would have at least been for the already-completed century, but it just makes this award, only eight years later, seem all the weirder.
Full list
1. Andrea Pirlo 2. Andres Iniesta 3. Andriy Shevchenko 4. Arjen Robben 5. Cristiano Ronaldo 6. David Beckham 7. Fabio Cannavaro 8. Francesco Totti 9. Frank Lampard 10. Gianluigi Buffon Cristiano Ronaldo will now have a chance to win the Player of the Century Award. Photo: Gualter Fatia Source: Getty Images 11. Iker Casillas 12. Kaká 13. Kylian Mbappé 14. Lionel Messi 15. Luka Modric 16. Luís Figo 17. Manuel Neuer 18. Mohamed Salah 19. Neymar 20. Philipp Lahm 21. Robert Lewandowski 22. Ronaldinho 23. Ronaldo 24. Sergio Ramos 25. Steven Gerrard 26. Xavi 27. Zinedine Zidane 28. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
