{"id":57718,"date":"2015-12-01T12:02:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T10:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=57718"},"modified":"2024-02-17T12:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T09:25:11","slug":"messi-neymar-ronaldo-ballon-dor-shortlist-57718","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/messi-neymar-ronaldo-ballon-dor-shortlist-57718\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi, Neymar, Ronaldo on Ballon d&#8217;Or shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Lionel Messi and Neymar from Barcelona will compete with Real Madrid&#8217;s Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo for the FIFA Ballon d&#8217;Or award, which designates the best player of the year.<\/h1>\n<p>The contenders for 2015 FIFA Ballon d\u2019Or Award were announced Monday on FIFA.com.<\/p>\n<p>The nominees for the FIFA Ballon d\u2019Or are: Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal\/Real Madrid), Lionel Messi (Argentina\/FC Barcelona) and Neymar (Brazil\/FC Barcelona).<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo received the award for the past two years. Previously, Messi had claimed it four years in a row.<\/p>\n<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57721\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/fifa-ballon-d-or.jpg\" alt=\"FIFA Ballon d'Or\" width=\"620\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/fifa-ballon-d-or.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/fifa-ballon-d-or-280x158.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/fifa-ballon-d-or-610x344.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, the nominees for the women\u2019s award for best player of 2015 are as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carli Lloyd (USA\/Houston Dash)<\/p>\n<p>Aya Miyama (Japan\/Okayama Yunogo Belle)<\/p>\n<p>Celia Sasic (Germany\/1. FFC Frankfurt)<\/p>\n<p>The candidates for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men\u2019s Football and FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women\u2019s Football awards have also been announced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The contenders for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men\u2019s Football award are as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola (Spain\/FC Bayern Munich)<\/p>\n<p>Luis Enrique Martinez (Spain\/FC Barcelona)<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Sampaoli (Argentine\/Chilean national team)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The contenders for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women\u2019s Football award are as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jill Ellis (USA\/USA national team)<\/p>\n<p>Mark Sampson (Wales\/English national team)<\/p>\n<p>Norio Sasaki (Japan\/Japanese national team)<\/p>\n<p>The three nominees for the FIFA Puskas Award for the &#8220;most beautiful goal of the year&#8221; were announced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The three nominated goals are as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alessandro Florenzi \u2013 16.09.2015, AS Roma \u2013 FC Barcelona, UEFA Champions League<\/p>\n<p>Wendell Lira \u2013 11.03.2015, Atletico-GO \u2013 Goianesia, Campeonato Goiano (Brazil)<\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi \u2013 30.05.2015, Athletic Bilbao &#8211; FC Barcelona, Copa del Rey (Spain).<\/p>\n<p>All of the awards will be presented at the FIFA Ballon d\u2019Or award ceremony at the Kongresshaus in Zurich on Jan. 11, 2016 (Anadolu Agency).<\/p>\n<p>Football Leaks Scandals Jorge Mendes Besiktas JK Series<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1024px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-57718-1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Jorge-Mendes-Football-Leaks-Scandal-Besiktas.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Jorge-Mendes-Football-Leaks-Scandal-Besiktas.mp4\">https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Jorge-Mendes-Football-Leaks-Scandal-Besiktas.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi and Neymar from Barcelona will compete with Real Madrid&#8217;s Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo for the FIFA Ballon d&#8217;Or award, which designates the best player of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,80,127],"tags":[405,6574,63271,5664,17182,45361],"class_list":["post-57718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-breaking-news","category-sport","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-fifa-ballon-dor","tag-lionel-messi","tag-lionel-messi-barcelona","tag-neymar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78858,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57718\/revisions\/78858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}