#LionelMessi won the #BalonDor2016, his 5th of his amazing career, deservedly beating #Cristiano and #Neymar, while his coach at #Barcelona #LuisEnrique won Coach of the Year for that astounding year that the Catalan giants had (and look well placed to repeat); #JillEllis won Women’s Coach of the Year for taking the #UnitedStates to their resounding World Cup win, alongside #CarliLoyd, who won the Women’s Player of the Year. And in true #FIFA ‘bumbling’, they won the ‘Worst microphone handling of the year’ award as hosts #KateAbdo and #JamesNesbitt could be heard whispering nonsense ‘offline’ and most primary speakers could barely be heard consistently.
The FIFA team of the year though, has to be one of the best of all time –
A front 3 of CR7 Messi and Neymar with #Iniesta #Pogba and #Modric in midfield with #Ramos #ThiagoSilva #Marcelo and #Alves in a back 4 guarding the wall that is #ManuelNeuer in goal. They’d be on my combined Fantasy team anytime!
To be fair though – no one can have any complaints about the winners – they were entirely deserving and completely fabulous!