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FIFA Presidential Award

Annual FIFA football award

Annual FIFA football award

The FIFA Presidential Award was a FIFA association football award given annually at the FIFA World Player Gala. It was first awarded by the then President of FIFA Sepp Blatter in 2001, and has not been awarded since 2014 due to Blatter's suspension from all football activities in 2015.

Winners

YearFIFA Presidential AwardNotes
2001Trinidad and Tobago **Marvin Lee**Awarded to the former Trinidad and Tobago's U-20 captain who was paralysed after an injury sustained in an international for them in March 2001.
2002England **Parminder Nagra**url=https://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/developing/women/news/newsid=85811.htmltitle=Parminder Nagra: They chalked the side of my footpublisher=FIFAurl-status=deadarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511084811/http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/developing/women/news/newsid%3D85811.htmlarchive-date=11 May 2008 }}
2003Iraq **The Iraqi Football Community**url=https://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/awards/gala/news/newsid=90284.htmltitle=Stars come out for 13th FIFA World Player Galapublisher=FIFAurl-status=deadarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080419012733/http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/awards/gala/news/newsid%3D90284.htmlarchive-date=19 April 2008 }} The Iraqi Community was represented at the ceremony by Hussein Saeed, Bernd Stange and Naji Husam.
2004Haiti **Haiti**url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3575292.stmtitle=Brazil takes on football-crazy Haitipublisher=BBCdate=19 August 2004access-date=4 January 2010}}
2005Sweden **Anders Frisk**Awarded after a premature end to his career as a leading international referee in March 2005, following death threats and abuse to him and his family following a UEFA Champions League match between Chelsea and Barcelona.
2006Italy **Giacinto Facchetti**Awarded posthumously after he lost his fight to pancreatic cancer earlier in the year. It recognised him as one of the La Grande Inter and a founding fathers of catenaccio defending.
2007Brazil **Pelé**Awarded 50 years after his international debut in recognition of outstanding services to the game and more specifically his immense contribution to football's growth in popularity and as a spectacle. Also for using his unique status as "the best player the world has ever known" to combat social injustice, poverty and discrimination. He fulfills this role as ambassadors of UNESCO and the WHO, and within UNICEF and football itself, not least through his membership of FIFA's Football Committee.
2008**Women's association football**Heather O'Reilly represented women's football and collected the award.
2009Jordan **Queen Rania of Jordan**For her commitment shown to the *1GOAL: Education for All* initiative, encouraging millions of politicians, musicians, footballers and fans of football across the world to provide access to education for all.
2010South Africa **Desmond Tutu**
2011Scotland **Sir Alex Ferguson**
2012Germany **Franz Beckenbauer**
2013Belgium **Jacques Rogge**
2014Japan **Hiroshi Kagawa**

Notes

:A: President of the Iraqi Football Association at the time. :B:The German coach of the Iraq national football team at the time. :C: Iraq national football team captain at the time.

References

References

  1. "Presidential Award". FIFA.
  2. "Presidential Award". Infoplus (FIFA).
  3. "Parminder Nagra: They chalked the side of my foot". FIFA.
  4. "Presidential Award for Haiti, Fair Play Award to Brazil". FIFA.
  5. (5 September 2006). "Obituaries – Giacinto Facchetti". The Times.
  6. "Seven the number for Pele". FIFA.
  7. "Pele: What an honour!". Fifa.
  8. (October 2021). "Presidential Award". Infoplus (FIFA)}}{{dead link.
  9. (12 January 2009). "Women earn Presidential Award". [[FIFA]].
  10. (21 December 2009). "Queen Rania of Jordan receives FIFA Presidential Award". [[FIFA]].
  11. "Presidential Award". [[FIFA]].
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  13. "Beckenbauer receives FIFA Presidential Award 2012". [[FIFA]].
  14. "Jacques Rogge wins FIFA Presidential Award". [[Marca (newspaper).
  15. "[国际足球]2014年国际足联最佳主席奖——Hiroshi Kagawa". 央视网.
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