World Footballer Choice: These Are All Nominees

Who will be world footballer in 2020? Eleven women and eleven men are available - Manuel Neuer is not among them.

On December 17th, FIFA will announce in a virtual ceremony who will be the world player, world goalkeeper and world coach for men and women. In advance, groups of experts limited the number of candidates, on which players, coaches, media representatives and fans can vote until December 9th.

With Robert Lewandowski is a hot favorite among the remaining eleven world footballer candidates to succeed defending champion Lionel Messi, with Thiago only one other member from the triple team of FC Bayern is there. Captain Manuel Neuer, whom the national coach Joachim Löw, who is also entitled to vote , had favored as a world footballer , is only available for election with the world goalkeepers. Dzsenifer Marozsan is on the shortlist for women.

World footballers - the eleven nominees:

• Thiago ( FC Bayern / Liverpool)
• Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus)
• Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City)
• Robert Lewandowski ( FC Bayern )
• Sadio Mané (Liverpool)
• Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain)
• Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona)
• Neymar (Paris Saint-Germain )
• Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid)
• Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)
• Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool)

World footballer - the eleven nominees:

• Lucy Bronze (Olympique Lyon / Manchester City)
• Delphine Cascarino (Olympique Lyon)
• Caroline Graham Hansen (FC Barcelona)
• Pernille Harder ( VfL Wolfsburg / Chelsea)
• Jennifer Hermoso (FC Barcelona)
• Ji So-yun (Chelsea)
• Sam Kerr (Chelsea)
• Saki Kumagai (Olympique Lyon)
• Dzsenifer Marozsan (Olympique Lyon)
• Vivianne Miedema (Arsenal)
• Wendie Renard (Olympique Lyon)
• World goalkeeper - the six nominees:
• Alisson (Liverpool)
• Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid)
• Keylor Navas (Paris Saint-Germain)
• Manuel Neuer (FC Bayern)
• Jan Oblak (Atletico Madrid)
• Marc-André ter Stegen (FC Barcelona)

World goalkeeper - the six nominees:

• Ann-Katrin Berger (Chelsea)
• Sarah Bouhaddi (Olympique Lyon)
• Christiane Endler (Paris Saint-Germain)
• Hedvig Lindahl ( VfL Wolfsburg / Atletico Madrid)
• Alyssa Naeher (Chicago Red Stars)
• Ellie Roebuck (Manchester City)

World coach men - the five nominees:

• Marcelo Bielsa (Leeds United)
• Hansi Flick (FC Bayern)
• Jürgen Klopp (Liverpool)
• Julen Lopetegui (FC Sevilla)
• Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid)

World trainer women - the seven nominees:

• Lluis Cortes (FC Barcelona)
• Rita Guarino (Juventus)
• Emma Hayes (Chelsea)
• Stephan Lerch (VfL Wolfsburg)
• Hege Riise (LSK Kvinner)
• Jean-Luc Vasseur (Olympique Lyon)
• Sarina Wiegman (Dutch national team)