Neuer nominated as best goalkeeper
Erling Haaland and last year’s winner Robert Lewandowski are among the eleven candidates for the FIFA election for “World Player of the Year”. The world association also announced the names of the candidates for other categories on Monday. All winners will be announced on January 17, 2022 in a virtual TV show at FIFA headquarters in Zurich.
In the multiple world footballers Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Mohamed Salah and other superstars such as the currently most valuable player in the world, Kylian Mbappé, the currently injured Dortmund Haaland and the Munich top scorer Lewandowski have top-class competition. Not a single professional from the country of European Championship finalist England is on the FIFA shortlist.