FIFA Golden Ball 2012

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Lionel Messi and Abby Wambach

The FIFA Golden Ball 2012 is the third award ceremony for the best soccer players and coaches in the world, held on January 7, 2013 in Zurich . The award was held in 8 nominations: the best footballer and soccer player of the year, the best coach of male and female teams, the best goal of the year, the FIFA President's award, the Fair Play award and the symbolic national team of the year.

Content

1 Winners
2 coach of the year
3 FIFA Symbolic Team 2012
4 notes

Winners

Lionel Messi was recognized as the best footballer of the year, and Abby Wambach as the best footballer.

A place	Player	A country	Club	Glasses
1st	Lionel Messi	Argentina	Barcelona	41.60%
2nd	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	RealMadrid	23.68%
3rd	Andres Iniesta	Spain	Barcelona	10.91%

Trainer of the Year

According to the results of the voting, Vicente del Bosque was recognized as the best coach of 2012, who in 2012 led the Spanish national team to victory in the European Championship ^[1] .

A place	Trainer	A country	Team	Glasses
1st	Vicente del Bosque	Spain	Spain national team	68.78%
2nd	Jose Mourinho	Portugal	RealMadrid	20.49%
3rd	Josep Guardiola	Spain	Barcelona	12.91%

In March 2013, runner-up Jose Mourinho accused FIFA of voting violations for the best coach of the year. The Portuguese stated that some of the voters informed him that their votes for Mourinho were ultimately attributed to del Bosque ^[2] ^[3] . Mourinho was not present at the award ceremony precisely because he received information from several people about violations in the counting of votes, despite the fact that the voting results were published after the ceremony. FIFA issued a press release, which rejected the allegations and confirmed the correctness of the published voting results ^[4] . Napoli footballer Goran Pandev of Macedonia confirmed the words of Mourinho, saying that in the published results his vote for Mourinho was attributed to del Bosque, about which he informed the Portuguese in a telephone conversation ^[5] .

2012 FIFA Symbolic Team

At the ceremony, the symbolic FIFA team was named at the end of 2012. Of the 11 people, five Real Madrid and Barcelona players, as well as Radamel Falcao from Madrid Atletico, were included in the team. All players of the national team represented the championship of Spain ^[1] .

Casillas

Alves

Pique

Ramos

Marcelo

Xavi

Alonso

Iniesta

Messi

Falcao

Ronaldo

Position	Player ^[6]	Nat	Club
VR	Iker Casillas	Spain	RealMadrid
Defense	Daniel Alves	Brazil	Barcelona
Defense	Gerard Piquet	Spain	Barcelona
Defense	Sergio Ramos	Spain	RealMadrid
Defense	Marcelo Vieira	Brazil	RealMadrid
PP	Xabi Alonso	Spain	RealMadrid
PP	Xavi	Spain	Barcelona
PP	Andres Iniesta	Spain	Barcelona
Nap	Lionel Messi	Argentina	Barcelona
Nap	Radamel Falcao	Colombia	Atletico Madrid
Nap	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	RealMadrid

Notes

↑ ¹ ² L. Messi received the Golden Ball for the fourth time, V. Del Bosque named coach of the year Archived copy of January 11, 2013 on Wayback Machine rbc.ru January 08, 2013
↑ Mourinho accused FIFA of deliberately choosing del Bosque as coach of the year (unopened) . R-Sport (March 19, 2013). Date of treatment March 20, 2013. Archived March 22, 2013.
↑ Jose Mourinho: “When FIFA chose the best coach of the year, the votes for me were attributed to another candidate” (neopr.) (March 19, 2013). Date of treatment March 20, 2013. Archived March 22, 2013.
↑ FIFA has denied Mourinho’s words about the rigging of the vote for the best coach of the year (neopr.) . sports.ru (March 20, 2013). Date of treatment March 20, 2013. Archived March 22, 2013.
↑ Goran Pandev: “I voted for Mourinho, but FIFA attributed my vote to Del Bosque” (neopr.) . sports.ru (March 21, 2013). Date of treatment March 20, 2013. Archived March 22, 2013.
↑ Messi, Wambach, Del Bosque & Sundhage triumph ( unopened ) (link not available) . FIFA.com (January 7, 2013). Date of treatment January 7, 2013. Archived January 28, 2013.

[rbc.ru-1] ¹ ² L. Messi received the Golden Ball for the fourth time, V. Del Bosque named coach of the year Archived copy of January 11, 2013 on Wayback Machine rbc.ru January 08, 2013

[2] Mourinho accused FIFA of deliberately choosing del Bosque as coach of the year (unopened) . R-Sport (March 19, 2013). Date of treatment March 20, 2013. Archived March 22, 2013.

[3] Jose Mourinho: “When FIFA chose the best coach of the year, the votes for me were attributed to another candidate” (neopr.) (March 19, 2013). Date of treatment March 20, 2013. Archived March 22, 2013.

[4] FIFA has denied Mourinho’s words about the rigging of the vote for the best coach of the year (neopr.) . sports.ru (March 20, 2013). Date of treatment March 20, 2013. Archived March 22, 2013.

[5] Goran Pandev: “I voted for Mourinho, but FIFA attributed my vote to Del Bosque” (neopr.) . sports.ru (March 21, 2013). Date of treatment March 20, 2013. Archived March 22, 2013.

[fifa1565969-6] Messi, Wambach, Del Bosque & Sundhage triumph ( unopened ) (link not available) . FIFA.com (January 7, 2013). Date of treatment January 7, 2013. Archived January 28, 2013.