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2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or

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2009 (France Football)

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.

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. 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.

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.

Winners and nominees

FIFA Ballon d'Or

Rank	Player	National team	Club(s)	Percent
1st	Lionel Messi	****	Barcelona	22.65%
2nd	Andrés Iniesta		Barcelona	17.36%
3rd	Xavi		Barcelona	16.48%

The following twenty players were also in contention for the award:

Rank	Player	National team	Club(s)	Percent
4th	Wesley Sneijder		Internazionale	14.48%
5th	Diego Forlán		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	National team	Club(s)	Percent
1st	Marta	****	FC Gold Pride	38.20%
2nd	Birgit Prinz		1. FFC Frankfurt	15.18%
3rd	Fatmire Bajramaj		[Turbine Potsdam](1-ffc-turbine-potsdam)	9.96%

The following seven players were also in contention for the award:

Rank	Player	Club(s)	Percent
4th	Kelly Smith	Boston Breakers	9.29%
5th	Abby Wambach	Washington Freedom	6.25%
6th	Ji So-yun	Hanyang Women's College	5.24%
7th	Christine Sinclair	FC Gold Pride	4.42%
8th	Hope Solo	Saint Louis Athletica
Atlanta Beat	3.85%
9th	Caroline Seger	Philadelphia Independence	3.64%
10th	Camille Abily	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		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	****
2nd	Maren Meinert	Germany
3rd	Pia Sundhage	Sweden

[[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		10.61%

FIFA/[[FIFPro World XI]]

Main article: FIFA FIFPRO World 11

Position	Player	Club(s)
GK	Iker Casillas	Real Madrid
DF	Maicon	Internazionale
DF	Carles Puyol	Barcelona
DF	Gerard Piqué	Barcelona
DF	Lúcio	Internazionale
MF	Andrés Iniesta	Barcelona
MF	Xavi	Barcelona
MF	Wesley Sneijder	Internazionale
FW	David Villa	Valencia
Barcelona
FW	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid
FW	Lionel Messi	Barcelona

FIFA Presidential Award

RSA Desmond Tutu

FIFA Fair Play Award

References

(6 December 2010). "Nominees announced for FIFA Ballon d'Or gala 2010". FIFA.com.
totalbarca.com, [http://www.totalbarca.com/2010/news/its-an-all-barca-affair-at-fifa-ballon-dor/ It's an all Barça affair at FIFA Ballon d’Or] {{webarchive. link. (10 December 2010)
(10 January 2011). "Messi named Player of the Year". ESPN Soccernet.
(10 January 2011). "Messi, Marta, Mourinho and Neid crowned as the best of 2010". FIFA.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110725220034/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/classic/awards/01/36/25/25/awards%5fsorted%5fby%5franks%5frek%5fupdated%5fsandmayr2x%5f(2).pdf FIFA Women's World Player 2010 votes]

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