FIFA Ballon d'Or 2011
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he contenders for this year's FIFA Ballon d'Or award for the best player of 2011 and for the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year 2011 award were announced on Monday December 5 at a press conference held at the headquarters of France Football magazine in Paris in which FIFA Secretary General JérômeValcke, France Football CEO François Morinière, former French player Emmanuel Petit and GaëtaneThiney, French international football player, took part. The male nominees are: Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Lionel Messi (Argentina) and Xavi (Spain), while Marta (Brazil), HomareSawa (Japan) and Abby Wambach (USA) will contest the women's award. The candidates for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men's Football and FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women's Football awards were also announced. Alex Ferguson (Scotland), Josep Guardiola (Spain) and José Mourinho (Portugal) for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men's Football award and Bruno Bini (France), Norio Sasaki (Japan) and PiaSundhage (Sweden) for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women's Football award.