The World Football Federation (FIFA) has just announced 10 official candidates that will compete fiercely for becoming the owner of the title “FIFA The Best” this year. Ronaldo and Messi will have to be very wary that heavy opponents can overthrow them to win this noble award. In the previous season, this title belongs to Luka Modric.

According to FIFA’s announcement, the players in the top 10 are evaluated based on their achievements from July 16, 2018 to July 19, 2019.

Besides Messi, Ronaldo, who are the other candidates to the honorable award the best player of the year?

Recently, FIFA has announced 10 players will compete for “The Best” category of the best male players in 2019. That is Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus / DT Portugal), Lionel Messi (Barcelona / Tel Argentina), Virgil Van Dijk (Liverpool / Tel Netherlands), Mohamed Salah (Liverpool / Egypt), Sadio Mane (Liverpool / Senegal), Kylian Mbappe (France PSG / France), Harry Kane (Tottenham / England), Frenkie de Jong (Barcelona / Netherlands), Matthijs de Ligt (Juventus / DT Netherlands) and Eden Hazard (Real Madrid / Belgium).

Clearly, with the brilliant performance of Liverpool winning the Champions League and winning the English Premier League runner-up last season, the star trio Van Dijk – Mane – Salah are the most serious competitors competing for the title.

Of these, Van Dijk was voted the “Premier League Player of the Year” by the Professional Players Association (PFA), while Mane and Salah and Aubameyang (Arsenal) shared the title “Scorer”. This tournament last season.

For Messi, he made a big contribution to helping Barcelona to win La Liga for the second year in a row, winning the title “Pichichi” (La Liga top scorer) and “European golden shoe” in the 2018/19 season but he and ” The Catalans giant “lost to Liverpool and Valencia in the Champions League semi-final and the King’s Cup final. For Argentina, Messi also showed a weak performance and only “Albiceleste” won third place at Copa America.