The great and the good from the world of football are coming together to decide who should be crowned the best performers of the past year.
Well, it has been a long process involving 47 different judges in five different panels judging seven different categories.
All were asked to whittle longlists down to shortlists for a committee of ‘FIFA Legends’ to then pick the winners in each section .
Got it? Right?
Here are the names of those judges.
Best Men’s Player and Coach judging panel
This 13-strong panel includes Chelsea legend and current Derby County boss Frank Lampard , as well as the former Scotland boss and longtime FIFA Technical Committee member Andy Roxburgh and ex-England manager Fabio Capello .
Lampard’s former Chelsea teammate Didier Drogba is also there, as well as recently retired stars Kaka , Alessandro Nesta and Brazil legend Ronaldo .
Saudi Arabia legend and former Wolvesloanee Sami Al-Jaber , South Korea’s Cha Bum-kun , Brazil World Cup winner Carlos Alberto Parreira , Germany legend Lothar Matthaus , New Zealand’s Wynton Ruferand Nigeria’s Emmanuel Amunike make up the panel.
Two-time Women’s World Cup winner and double Olympic champion Mia Hammheadlines the panel for the Women’s awards, and she’s joined by Germany’s Nadine Kessler , who was crowned FIFA’s best player in the women’s game in 2014.
Swede Anna Signeul – who coached Scotland’s women’s team for 12 years before leaving for Finland last year – is also there, as well as Maia Jackman , who won 50 caps for New Zeland’s Football Ferns, and ex-Brazil star Sissi .
Belinda Wilson (Australia), Sun Wen (China), Jack Shipanga (Namibia), Clementine Toure(Ivory Coast), Andrea Rodebaugh (Mexico), Diego Guacci (Chile) and Patrick Jacquemet (France) make up the list.
The seven-strong panel that put forward the shortlist for the year’s best goal includes goalscoring legends Miroslav Klose , David Trezeguet and Marco van Basten .
England international joined television pundit Alex Scott is also on the list, as is World Cup winner Iker Casillas , former Argentina star Pablo Aimar and former Brazil women’s captain Aline Pellegrino .
Best Goalkeeper Award judging panel
The panel putting forward the three-man shortlist for the best goalkeeper – Thibaut Courtois, Hugo Lloris and Kasper Schmeichel – included seven great keepers and two forwards who were often denied by them.
Kasper’s dad Peter Schmeichel , Vitor Baia, Jorge Campos , Gordon Banks , Rinat Dasayev , Mark Schwarzer and Rene Higuita all know a good keeper when they see one, and former forwards Diego Forlanand Alessandro Altobelli are there too.
Leeds legend Lucas Radebe is on the panel for the fans’ award, along with Brazil World Cup winner Cafu and Christian Karembeu , who was in the victorious France team in 1998.
Homare Sawa (Japan), Bora Milutinovic(Serbia) and Lindsay Tarpley-Snow (USA) make up the six-strong panel.
Credit : mirrorfootball / supersports
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