2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or

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The 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or Gala was the inaugural year for FIFA's awards for the top football players and coaches of the year. The gala is a continuation of the FIFA World Player Gala and a result of merging the FIFA Men's World Player of the Year award with the Ballon d'Or, previously created and presented by France Football to the top men's player in Europe. The awards ceremony took place on 10 January 2011 in Zürich, Switzerland. The three finalists for each category were announced on 6 December 2010.^[1]

La Masia, the FC Barcelona academy, achieved a record breaking honor in becoming the first youth academy ever to have all three finalists for the Ballon d'Or in one same year, with Lionel Messi, Andrés Iniesta and Xavi.^[2]^[3] Messi won the award, his second consecutive Ballon d'Or victory.

Marta won the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year award, her fifth in a row.^[4]

José Mourinho, Portuguese manager of Real Madrid and previously of Internazionale, was the first winner of the men's FIFA World Coach of the Year award in 2010. The women's version of the award was won by Germany head coach Silvia Neid.^[4]

Winners and nominees[]

FIFA Ballon d'Or[]

Lionel Messi

Andrés Iniesta

Xavi

Rank	Player	Nationality	Club(s)	Percent
1st	Lionel Messi	Argentina	Barcelona	22.65%
2nd	Andrés Iniesta	Spain	Barcelona	17.36%
3rd	Xavi	Spain	Barcelona	16.48%

The following 20 men were also in contention for the FIFA Ballon d’Or 2010:

Rank	Player	Nationality	Club(s)	Percent
4th	Wesley Sneijder	Netherlands	Internazionale	14.48%
5th	Diego Forlán	Uruguay	Atlético Madrid	7.61%
6th	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	Real Madrid	3.92%
7th	Iker Casillas	Spain	Real Madrid	2.90%
8th	David Villa	Spain	Valencia Barcelona	2.25%
9th	Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	Chelsea	1.68%
10th	Xabi Alonso	Spain	Real Madrid	1.52%
11th	Carles Puyol	Spain	Barcelona	1.43%
12th	Samuel Eto'o	Cameroon	Internazionale	1.37%
13th	Mesut Özil	Germany	Real Madrid	1.21%
14th	Arjen Robben	Netherlands	Bayern Munich	1.16%
15th	Thomas Müller	Germany	Bayern Munich	0.91%
16th	Bastian Schweinsteiger	Germany	Bayern Munich	0.75%
17th	Maicon	Brazil	Internazionale	0.57%
18th	Asamoah Gyan	Ghana	Sunderland	0.46%
19th	Júlio César	Brazil	Internazionale	0.22%
20th	Cesc Fàbregas	Spain	Arsenal	0.22%
21st	Miroslav Klose	Germany	Bayern Munich	0.19%
22nd	Philipp Lahm	Germany	Bayern Munich	0.05%
23rd	Dani Alves	Brazil	Barcelona	0.05%

FIFA Women's World Player of the Year[]

Rank	Player	Nationality	Club(s)	Percent
1st	Marta	Brazil	FC Gold Pride	38.20%
2nd	Birgit Prinz	Germany	1. FFC Frankfurt	15.18%
3rd	Fatmire Bajramaj	Germany	Turbine Potsdam	9.96%

The other seven nominees were:^[5]

Rank	Player	Nationality	Club(s)	Percent
4th	Kelly Smith	England	Boston Breakers	9.29%
5th	Abby Wambach	United States	Washington Freedom	6.25%
6th	Ji So-yun	South Korea	Hanyang Women's College	5.24%
7th	Christine Sinclair	Canada	FC Gold Pride	4.42%
8th	Hope Solo	United States	Saint Louis Athletica Atlanta Beat	3.85%
9th	Caroline Seger	Sweden	Philadelphia Independence	3.64%
10th	Camille Abily	France	FC Gold Pride Lyon	3.38%

FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men's Football[]

Rank	Coach	Nationality	Team(s)	Percent
1st	José Mourinho	Portugal	Internazionale Real Madrid	35.92%
2nd	Vicente del Bosque	Spain	Spain	33.08%
3rd	Pep Guardiola	Spain	Barcelona	8.45%

FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women's Football[]

Rank	Coach	Nationality	Team(s)
1st	Silvia Neid	Germany	Germany
2nd	Maren Meinert	Germany	Germany U-20
3rd	Pia Sundhage	Sweden	United States

FIFA Puskás Award[]

Rank	Player	Nationality	Club	Percent
1st	Hamit Altıntop	Turkey	Bayern Munich	40.55%
2nd	Linus Hallenius	Sweden	Hammarby IF	13.23%
3rd	Giovanni van Bronckhorst	Netherlands	Netherlands	10.61%

FIFA/FIFPro World XI[]

Maicon

Sneijder

Villa

Ronaldo

Messi

Position	Player	National Team	Club(s)
GK	Iker Casillas^[3]	Spain	Real Madrid
DF	Maicon	Brazil	Internazionale
DF	Carles Puyol^[3]	Spain	Barcelona
DF	Gerard Piqué	Spain	Barcelona
DF	Lúcio	Brazil	Internazionale
MF	Andrés Iniesta	Spain	Barcelona
MF	Xavi	Spain	Barcelona
MF	Wesley Sneijder	Netherlands	Internazionale
FW	David Villa	Spain	Valencia Barcelona
FW	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	Real Madrid
FW	Lionel Messi	Argentina	Barcelona

FIFA Presidential Award[]

Desmond Tutu^[4]

FIFA Fair Play Award[]

Haiti women's national under-17 football team^[4]

References[]

^ "Nominees announced for FIFA Ballon d'Or gala 2010". FIFA.com. 2010-12-06. Archived from the original on 25 January 2011. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
^ totalbarca.com, It’s an all Barça affair at FIFA Ballon d’Or Archived December 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Messi named Player of the Year". ESPN Soccernet. 2011-01-10. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "Messi, Marta, Mourinho and Neid crowned as the best of 2010". FIFA. 10 January 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
^ FIFA Women's World Player 2010 votes

External links[]

France Football Official Ballon d'Or page

[1] "Nominees announced for FIFA Ballon d'Or gala 2010". FIFA.com. 2010-12-06. Archived from the original on 25 January 2011. Retrieved 2011-01-10.

[2] totalbarca.com, It’s an all Barça affair at FIFA Ballon d’Or Archived December 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine

[list-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Messi named Player of the Year". ESPN Soccernet. 2011-01-10. Retrieved 2011-01-10.

[fifa1362416-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "Messi, Marta, Mourinho and Neid crowned as the best of 2010". FIFA. 10 January 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2012.

[5] FIFA Women's World Player 2010 votes

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FIFA Ballon d'Or (2010–2015)	2010: Messi 2011: Messi 2012: Messi 2013: C. Ronaldo 2014: C. Ronaldo 2015: Messi
Ballon d'Or (2016–present)	2016: C. Ronaldo 2017: C. Ronaldo 2018: Modrić 2019: Messi 2020: not awarded :
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FIFA Ballon d'Or	2010: Messi 2011: Messi 2012: Messi 2013: C. Ronaldo 2014: C. Ronaldo 2015: Messi
The Best FIFA Men's Player	2016: C. Ronaldo 2017: C. Ronaldo 2018: Modrić 2019: Messi 2020: Lewandowski
See also: Ballon d'Or

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FIFA Women's World Player of the Year	2001: Hamm 2002: Hamm 2003: Prinz 2004: Prinz 2005: Prinz 2006: Marta 2007: Marta 2008: Marta 2009: Marta 2010: Marta 2011: Sawa 2012: Wambach 2013: Angerer 2014: Keßler 2015: Lloyd
The Best FIFA Women's Player	2016: Lloyd 2017: Martens 2018: Marta 2019: Rapinoe 2020: Bronze

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FIFA World Coach of the Year	2010: Mourinho 2011: Guardiola 2012: Del Bosque 2013: Heynckes 2014: Löw 2015: Luis Enrique
The Best FIFA Football Coach	2016: Ranieri 2017: Zidane 2018: Deschamps 2019: Klopp 2020: Klopp

show v t FIFA Women's Coach of the Year
FIFA World Coach of the Year	2010: Neid 2011: Sasaki 2012: Sundhage 2013: Neid 2014: Kellermann 2015: Ellis
The Best FIFA Football Coach	2016: Neid 2017: Wiegman 2018: Pedros 2019: Ellis 2020: Wiegman