The Fußball Chatter

So the FIFA Football Awards or THE BEST happened last night at London and Luka Modrić won the Men's Best Player Award beating Cristiano Ronaldo and Mohamed Salah. Modrić has done what Wesley Sneijder, Franck Ribery and Manuel Neuer could not do. Break the Ronaldo-Messi duopoly.  Despite knowing he was going to win as Cristiano Ronaldo didn't attend the ceremony, Modrić was the deserved winner for what he has done over the past 12 months for both Real Madrid and Croatia. It's a sense of refreshment that a central midfielder who doesn't have high goals and assists numbers can be recognized as the best player in the world. Since Fabio Cannavaro, the FIFA Award mostly goes to attackers, something that former World Cup winning captain Philipp Lahm stated. There was some controversy with some of the winners from last night. Firstly, the Puskás award. Mohamed Salah's goal against Everton didn't deserve it. That wasn't even Salah's best goal from la...

The nominees for the FIFPro XI were released today as the players nominated were recognized for their performances in the past football season for both club and country. However, some players on the list were given far too much credit that they deserve. Here are the 5 strangest nominees from the FIFPro XI. Karim Benzema How Karim Benzema got a nomination for the FIFA XI is beyond me given how poor he was last season to get the ball in the net. The Frenchman had his worst goalscoring season for Los Blancos, scoring just 12 goals in 47 appearances with only 5 goals each in La Liga and the Champions League. That as well as his broken relationship with France coach Didier Deschamps prevented him from getting to the French squad for the World Cup and it's unlikely he will make it back anytime soon. He's already one short from his goal tally from last season with 4 goals in just 3 leagues appearances which shows he bad he was last season. Yerry Mina A strong World Cu...