{"id":11150,"date":"2022-01-17T12:33:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T07:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=181909"},"modified":"2022-01-17T12:33:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T07:03:19","slug":"the-best-fifa-mens-player-2021-to-be-crowned-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/the-best-fifa-mens-player-2021-to-be-crowned-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best FIFA Men\u2019s Player 2021 to be crowned today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no individual football award that creates a\u00a0 debate among the fans and the media also there is sure to be plenty when one of Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski, or Mohamed Salah is named this year\u2019s men\u2019s FIFA The Best winner on Monday 17 January.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA\u2019s annual The Best award is also becoming one of the coveted honors and the latest men and women\u2019s winners will be crowned on Monday in Zurich. The awards will be decided by an international jury which will be a combination of captains and national team coaches selected journalists from each territory represented by a national side, and fans registered with FIFA\u2019s official website.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd47 The Best FIFA Men's Player 2021 nominees. Who gets your vote? <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 Lionel Messi <br \/>\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddec Mohamed Salah<br \/>\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1 Robert Lewandowski<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UCL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UCL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u4Y33dVOn7\">pic.twitter.com\/u4Y33dVOn7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChampionsLeague\/status\/1479479568423694336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It is a cruel truth that goal-scoring will be a prominent factor that decides when it comes to the top awards. So it is fair that Lionel Messi, Mohamed Salah, and Robert Lewandowski are the nominees for this year\u2019s awards. They scored 129 goals between them in 145 games collectively in the calendar year 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski had a brilliant season in front of goal, scoring 43 in the Bundesliga in a calendar year breaking Gerd M\u00fcller\u2019s record.<\/p>\n<p>Salah had a mixed year by his high standards, he is nominated most likely due to the form which he gained in the second half of the year netting 22 goals in 25 games across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi has just managed to find the net 6 times in the 16 matches he has played for PSG after his move from Barcelona but However, his 28 goals in 29 matches for Barcelona in the calendar year and also successful Copa America campaign with his national side Argentina with four goals in the tournament and lifting the trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Best FIFA Men\u2019s Player will be crowned today at FIFA\u2019s headquarters in Zurich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":33626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[984,487,2428,2534,1125,48],"class_list":["post-11150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-fifa","tag-lionel-messi","tag-mohamed-salah","tag-robert-lewandowski","tag-the-best-fifa-football-awards","tag-uefa-champions-league"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}