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The FIFA Young Player Award ("Best Young Player Award" 2006–2010) was awarded for the first time at the 2006 World Cup in Germany and given to Germany's Lukas Podolski. [94] The award is given to the best player in the tournament who is at most 21 years old.
Pages in category "2010 FIFA World Cup players" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 729 total. ... This page was last edited on 28 ...
Both Men's and Women's World Best 11 changed format and allocation following the 2024 divestment of the FIFPRO World 11, which had been partnered with FIFA to operate these awards since 2009. Previously, a World Best squad was named by FIFA-FIFPro, with votes selecting the Best 11 from the squad list: the new FIFA Best 11 squads have nomination ...
In 2010, the FIFA World Player of the Year award combined with the Ballon d'Or to create the FIFA Ballon d'Or in a six-year partnership. [3] FIFA presided over the FIFA Ballon d'Or after agreeing to pay £13million for the merge of the two major player awards with France Football.
Lionel Messi is the player with the most games played at the FIFA World Cup, and one of only six along with German Lothar Matthäus, Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and Mexicans Antonio Carbajal, Andrés Guardado, and Rafael Márquez to have entered the field in five different tournaments.
Players with multiple goals in FIFA World Cup Finals Player Team Goals scored Finals played Final(s) Kylian Mbappé France: 4 2 2018, 2022 Geoff Hurst England: 3 1 1966: Vavá Brazil: 2 1958, 1962: Pelé Brazil: 2 1958, 1970: Zinedine Zidane France: 2 1998, 2006 Gino Colaussi Italy: 2 1 1938: Silvio Piola Italy: 1 1938: Helmut Rahn West Germany ...
A total of 471 players have been in the winning team in the World Cup. Brazil's Pelé is the only one to have won three times, while another 20 have won twice. Only players from Brazil and Italy, and one player from Argentina, have won the World Cup more than once. No player has won two World Cups both as captain.
From 2010 to 2015, the equivalent men's award was the FIFA Ballon d'Or, following a merging of the FIFA World Player of the Year and the France Football Ballon d'Or awards. [5] [6] Since 2016, the awards have been replaced by The Best FIFA Men's Player and The Best FIFA Women's Player awards. [7]