FIFA Releases 2014 Ballon D'or shortlist

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The current African footballer of the year, Yaya Toure
has been shortlisted along side twenty-two others for
the 2014 Ballon D’or in January.
The cote D’ivoire and Manchester city midfielder is the
only African player to make the twenty-three man list
revealed by the world football governing body, FIFA on
Tuesday.
Six members of the Germany world cup winning squared
are included in the FIFA shortlist for the coveted awards.
Current holder of the Ballon D’or Cristiano Ronaldo and
Lionel Messi are favourite to claim the 2013/2014
prestigious individual award.
Other notable names shortlisted are of Diego Costa of
Chelsea, Neymar of Barcelona, Zlanta Ibrahimovic of
Paris Saint Germain, Eden Hazard of Chelsea, Thomas
Mueller and Arjen Robben both from Bayern Munich.
The twenty-three men shortlisted will be reduced to
three in December before the winner is announced in
Zurich on January 12th , 2015.
The following 23 men (in alphabetical order) are in
contention for the FIFA Ballon d’Or 2014:
Gareth Bale (Wales), Karim Benzema (France), Diego
Costa (Spain), Thibaut Courtois (Belgium), Cristiano
Ronaldo (Portugal), Angel Di Maria (Argentina), Mario
Goetze (Germany), Eden Hazard (Belgium), Zlatan
Ibrahimovic (Sweden), Andres Iniesta (Spain), Toni Kroos
(Germany), Philipp Lahm (Germany), Javier Mascherano
(Argentina), Lionel Messi (Argentina), Thomas Mueller
(Germany), Manuel Neuer (Germany), Neymar (Brazil),
Paul Pogba (France), Sergio Ramos (Spain), Arjen
Robben (Netherlands), James Rodriguez (Colombia),
Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany), Yaya Toure (Côte
d’Ivoire).

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