
During the gala celebrations for the World Footballer of the Year in Lisbon, a mini-symposium was held under the chairmanship of FIFA director Keith Cooper, to discuss the theme: does Europe (still) set the pace in world football?

Ronaldo, the FIFA World Player of the year, is surpassing all superlatives. A portrait of the 20 year-old Brazilian.

As a result of confusion among the media due to an inaccurate news agency report from Tehran, FIFA wishes to clarify that there will be no award made to the Iranian player Ali Daei at the FIFA annual awards ceremony in Lisbon on 20 January 1997.

The award of the 1996 FIFA World Player of the Year will be bestowed at a gala ceremony inthe Belém Culture Centre in Lisbon.Also to be presented in Lisbon are the awards for the best team of the year according to theFIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking, ...

FIFA announced the names of the top three players in alphabetical order in Zurich and also in Lisbon. It is in the Portuguese capital that it will be revealed who is placed first, second and third as the prestigious awards are presented on Monday 20 ...

For the sixth time already, national coaches have been voting for their choice of FIFA World Footballer of the Year.