Football’s world governing body FIFA and “France Football” have announced the nominees for the FIFA Ballon d’Or Award 2011.

The candidates for the FIFA Ballon d’Or award and for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men’s Football award have been unveiled, just one week after the shortlists for the FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year and the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women’s Football awards.

The final decisions on the winners in each category will be made by the captains and head coaches of the men’s and women’s national teams as well as by international media representatives selected by “France Football”.

The winners of all of the awards will be revealed at the second FIFA Ballon d’Or gala as part of a televised ceremony at the Zurich Kongresshaus on 9 January 2012.

The FIFA/FIFPro World XI and the FIFA Puskás Award for the most beautiful goal of the year, the FIFA Presidential Award and the FIFA Fair Play Award will also be presented during the gala.

The lists of the candidates have been drawn up by football experts from the Football Committee, the Technical and Development Committee and by a group of experts from “France Football”.

On 5 December 2011, FIFA and “France Football” will hold a media event in Paris during which they will announce the names of the three men and three women, as well as the three men’s coaches and three women’s coaches, who have received the most votes. The three nominees for the FIFA Puskás Award will also be announced.

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But who is YOUR footballer of the year?
Cast your vote for the MEN’s at http://www.chrispd.de/wordpress/2011/11/01/vote-for-the-footballer-of-the-year-2011/
and for the WOMEN’s at http://www.chrispd.de/wordpress/2011/11/01/vote-for-the-womens-footballer-of-the-year-2011/

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FIFA Ballon d’Or 2011 – Men – Nominees (in alphabetical order)

Éric Abidal (France), Sergio Agüero (Argentina), Karim Benzema (France), Iker Casillas (Spain), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Dani Alves (Brazil), Samuel Eto’o (Cameroon), Cesc Fàbregas (Spain), Diego Forlán (Uruguay), Andrés Iniesta (Spain), Lionel Messi (Argentina), Thomas Müller (Germany), Nani (Portugal), Neymar (Brazil), Mesut Özil (Germany), Gerard Piqué (Spain), Wayne Rooney (England), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany), Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands), Luis Suárez (Uruguay), David Villa (Spain), Xabi Alonso (Spain), Xavi (Spain)

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FIFA Ballon d’Or 2011 – Women – Nominees (in alphabetical order)

Sonia Bompastor (France), Kerstin Garefrekes (Germany), Marta (Brazil), Aya Miyama (Japan), Alex Morgan (USA), Louisa Necib (France), Homare Sawa (Japan), Lotta Schelin (Sweden), Hope Solo (USA), Abby Wambach (USA)

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FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men’s Football 2011 – Nominees (in alphabetical order)

Vicente Del Bosque (Spain/Spain national team), Alex Ferguson (Scotland/Manchester United FC), Rudi Garcia (France/Lille OSC), Pep Guardiola (Spain/FC Barcelona), Jürgen Klopp (Germany/Borussia Dortmund), Joachim Löw (Germany/Germany national team), José Mourinho (Portugal/Real Madrid C.F.), Óscar Tabárez (Uruguay/Uruguay national team), André Villas-Boas (Portugal/FC Porto, Chelsea FC), Arsène Wenger (France/Arsenal FC)

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FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women’s Football 2011 – Nominees (in alphabetical order)

Bruno Bini (France/France national team), Leonardo Cuellar (Mexico/Mexico national team), Thomas Dennerby (Sweden/Sweden national team), Patrice Lair (France/Olympique Lyonnais), Maren Meinert (Germany/Germany U-20 national team), Hope Powell (England/England national team), Norio Sasaki (Japan/Japan national team), Tom Sermanni (Australia/Australia national team), Pia Sundhage (Sweden/USA national team), Jorge Vilda (Spain/Spain U-17 national team)

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But who is YOUR footballer of the year?
Cast your vote for the MEN’s at http://www.chrispd.de/wordpress/2011/11/01/vote-for-the-footballer-of-the-year-2011/
and for the WOMEN’s at http://www.chrispd.de/wordpress/2011/11/01/vote-for-the-womens-footballer-of-the-year-2011/