FIFA has revealed the votes of selection captains, coaches and journalists for The Best 2021 award. With some votes that challenge.
Monday evening was the FIFA The Best ceremony, rewarding the best football players of the past year. It was Robert Lewandowski who won the best player award for the second year in a row, while the typical team includes an attacking quartet made up of the Pole, Erling Haaland as well as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. But above all, FIFA revealed the votes of journalists, coaches and captains of selection of each country, and it is always quite interesting. Remember that for each vote, the first receives 5 points, the second gets 3 and the third takes one point.
Didier Deschamps thus voted, in order, for Karim Benzema, Kylian Mbappé and N’Golo Kanté. A 100% French vote therefore, while Hugo Lloris voted for the same players as his coach. There are, however, some surprising votes abroad. If Deschamps played it patriotic, this is not the case for his Portuguese counterpart Fernando Santos, who did not vote for Cristiano Ronaldo, thus preferring N’Golo Kanté, Jorginho and Robert Lewandowski.
Benzema solicited!
And who did the Portuguese star vote for? Well for Robert Lewandowski, N’Golo Kanté and Jorginho. Not Lionel Messi, Argentine captain, who also omitted the Lusitano from his votes, betting instead on Neymar, Kylian Mbappé and Karim Benzema. Among the captains of the big nations, we note that Sergio Busquets voted for a Messi-Lewandowski-Haaland trio, that Thiago Silva gave votes to Neymar, Lewandowski and Jorginho, while Eden Hazard took the side of Benzema, De Bruyne and Jorgenho. Harry Kane considered Robert Lewandowski to be the best player of the year, with Messi and N’Golo Kanté behind him.
As for Karim Benzema, in addition to the votes of his Belgian teammate from Real Madrid or Lloris and Deschamps, he notably received five points from Luka Modric, Romain Ghanem Saiss, the captain of Morocco, the Norwegian Martin Odegaard, the Algerian coach Djamel Belmadi, of Willy Sagnol (Georgia), among others, and was also hugely voted by African coaches and coaches. Kylian Mbappé also scratched a few first places for him, notably from the Malagasy coach and former Parisian Eric Rabesandratana or Hervé Renard, coach of Saudi Arabia.
