Sawa and Wambach shortlisted for FIFA Player from the Year

Brazil's Marta, Japan's Homare Sawa plus the USA's Abby Wambach have been shortlisted for FIFA Women's Planet Player of the Year 2011, which will be awarded on January 9, in Zurich.

Marta has won the award for an unprecedented five consecutive years, but immediately after her brilliant performance top fifa coins online Japan for the 2011 Women's Planet Cup, it really is doable that Sawa could unseat her. Sawa swept the 2011 Globe Cup awards, winning the Golden Boot for most objectives scored (5, plus 1 assist) plus the Golden Ball for her stellar play and leadership. Marta won the Silver Boot for her 4 goals and two assists and Wambach won the Bronze Boot for her four targets and 1 help and the Silver Ball for her all round excellent of play.

The men in line for the comparable FIFA Balon d'Or 2011 are Lionel Messi (Argentina), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) and Xabi (Spain). Messi won the award for the previous two consecutive years.

Also, there are awards given to the very best coaches, the scorer from the ideal target, and 3 additional honours: the FIFA/FIFPro Planet XI, the FIFA Presidential Award and the FIFA Fair Play Award.

Alex Ferguson (Scotland), Josep Guardiola (Spain) and Jos Mourinho (Portugal) are nominees for the FIFA Globe Coach of your Year for Men's Football award. Bruno Bini (France), Norio Sasaki (Japan) and Pia Sundhage (Sweden) are nominees for the FIFA World Coach with the Year for Women's Football award.

Messi (Argentina), Neymar (Brazil) and Wayne Rooney (England) are nominees for the "most beautiful aim in the year."

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