Manchester City stars Kevin De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, Rodri, Erling Haaland, Julian Alvarez and the recently left Ilkay Gundogan dominate the nominee list for The Best FIFA Men's Player 2023 award.
FIFA Awards: Argentina's World Cup winning hero and captain Lionel Messi has won the FIFA Best Men's Player award for 2022 after beating off competition from French star Kylian Mbappe
No player from Italy's European Championship-winning team or Chelsea's Champions League title squad was on the shortlist
There are prizes for the best men's and women's players, coaches, goalkeepers and best eleven.
Messi won the award earlier in the week ahead of Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk who helped the Reds win the Champions League.
There was not a single player from Manchester City who won the Premier League domestic treble last season and were one of the most dominating teams in Europe.
Other contenders among the men were Eden Hazard, Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappe while USA's Julie Ertz and Rose Lavelle also made the cut among the women.
Modric, who joined Real Madrid from Tottenham in 2012, received 29 per cent of votes from the coaches and captains of national teams, reporters and fans.
Modric made the FIFA Best shortlist after helping Real Madrid to a third straight Champions League title in May and then leading Croatia to the World Cup final.
For the first time, FIFA has opened voting within days of the World Cup, where Ronaldo and Messi both exited in the round of 16.
Ronaldo won the Spanish league and Champions League at Real Madrid, whereas, Messi and Neymar collected only the Copa del Rey title with Barcelona.
Rio de Janeiro, Apr 4: German firm GoalControl has been awarded a contract by world football's governing body FIFA to provide goal-line technology during June's Confederations Cup and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.The firm,
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