No Ronaldo as Salah joins Messi, Lewandowski for FIFA award

Cristiano Ronaldo was left off the three-man shortlist Friday for FIFA’s finest participant award for 2021, with Mohamed Salah on it as an alternative.
Six-time FIFA award winner Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski are additionally candidates to win the award on Jan. 17. Lewandowski received final yr forward of Ronaldo and Messi.
No participant from Italy’s European Championship-winning crew or Chelsea’s Champions League title squad was on the shortlist.
Ronaldo, a five-time winner, didn’t make the lower for under the second time since he was first nominated on the 2007 FIFA awards. He missed out on the 2010 awards when Messi received forward of Andrés Iniesta and Xavi.

🚨🏆 The closing three within the operating to be #TheGreatest FIFA Men’s Player 2021!
🌍👑 Who must be topped #TheGreatest on the planet?
🇵🇱 @lewy_official | @pzpn_pl🇦🇷 Lionel Messi | @Argentina🇪🇬 @MoSalah | @EFA pic.twitter.com/1kVGi5nRZ9
— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) January 7, 2022
Juventus, with Ronaldo on the crew, misplaced its long-time maintain on the Serie A title, putting fourth, and defending champion Portugal was eradicated within the spherical of 16 at Euro 2020.
Juventus, with Ronaldo on the crew, misplaced its long-time maintain on the Serie A title, putting fourth, and defending champion Portugal was eradicated within the spherical of 16 at Euro 2020. (File)
Salah was rewarded for one more standout yr with Liverpool by becoming a member of the shortlist for the second time. He positioned third in 2018 behind winner Luka Modric and Ronaldo.
In a yr when Messi moved from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain, he peaked by serving to Argentina win the Copa América for his first senior title with the nationwide crew. He received his seventh profession Ballon d’Or trophy final month.
Lewandowski broke two Bundesliga data by scoring 41 targets for Bayern Munich within the 2020-21 season and 43 within the calendar yr of 2021. Both marks have been held since 1972 by one other Bayern nice, Gerd Müller.
Voting was executed by nationwide crew coaches and captains, specialist media and followers making their selections on FIFA’s web site. They chosen from an extended checklist of gamers proposed by FIFA-appointed panels.
Barcelona teammates Alexia Putellas and Jennifer Hermoso, and Chelsea participant Sam Kerr have been placed on the ladies’s shortlist.

All three, history-makers 💪. The closing shortlist for #TheGreatest FIFA Women’s Player 2021 is right here.
Who will probably be 👑 #TheGreatest on the planet? @Jennihermoso 🇪🇸 @samkerr1 🇦🇺@alexiaputellas 🇪🇸 pic.twitter.com/9ZM8KQBrEB
— FIFA Women’s World Cup (@FIFAWWC) January 7, 2022
Putellas received the Women’s Ballon d’Or final month, with Hermoso second and Kerr third.
FIFA will announce winners in an internet ceremony from its headquarters in Zurich.