FIFA World Player of the Year
The FIFA World Player of the Year was an association football award presented annually by the sport’s governing body, FIFA, between 1991 and 2015. Coaches and captains of international teams and media representatives selected the player they deem to have performed the best in the previous calendar year. The men’s award was subsumed into the FIFA Ballon d’Or in 2010 while the women’s award remained until 2015. After 2015 both men’s and women’s awards became part of The Best FIFA Football Awards.
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The FIFA World Player of the Year was an association football award presented annually by the sport’s governing body, FIFA, between 1991 and 2015. Coaches and captains of international teams and media representatives selected the player they deem to have performed the best in the previous calendar year. The men’s award was subsumed into the FIFA Ballon d’Or in 2010 while the women’s award remained until 2015.
After 2015 both men’s and women’s awards became part of The Best FIFA Football Awards. Since 2016, the awards have been replaced by the Best FIFA Men’s Player and Best FIFA Women’s Player awards.
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