{"id":47915,"date":"2018-09-04T07:27:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T06:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=47915"},"modified":"2018-09-04T07:28:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T06:28:06","slug":"muslim-player-nominated-for-fifa-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/muslim-player-nominated-for-fifa-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim player nominated for FIFA award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8083\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Salah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/>Egyptian Mohamed Salah, Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and Croatian Luka Modric were shortlisted for the 2018 Best FIFA Men&#8217;s Player award.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a FIFA statement on Monday, Argentinean Lionel Messi missed out on the shortlist for the 2018 Best FIFA Men&#8217;s Player award.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mohamed Salah had scored 32 Premier League goals last season while Ronaldo scored 26 goals in La Liga last season and Modric was named UEFA&#8217;s Men&#8217;s player of the season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The nominees of Best FIFA Men\u2019s Coach are Zlatko Dalic (Croatia\/Croatia national team), Didier Deschamps (France\/France national team), Zinedine Zidane (France\/formerly Real Madrid CF).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The shortlisted Best FIFA Women\u2019s Player are Ada Hegerberg (Norway\/Olympique Lyonnais), Dzsenifer Marozs\u00e1n (Germany\/Olympique Lyonnais), Marta (Brazil\/Orlando Pride) and the nominees of Best FIFA Women\u2019s Coach are Reynald Pedros (France\/Olympique Lyonnais), Asako Takakura (Japan\/Japan national team), Sarina Wiegman (Netherlands\/Netherlands national team).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The nominees of Best FIFA Goalkeeper are Thibaut Courtois (Belgium\/Real Madrid CF, formerly Chelsea FC), Hugo Lloris (France\/Tottenham Hotspur FC), Kasper Schmeichel (Denmark\/Leicester City FC).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The nominees of FIFA Puskas Award &#8212; given for the best goal of the year &#8212; are as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gareth Bale (Real Madrid CF) \u2013 v. Liverpool FC<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Denis Cheryshev (Russia) \u2013 v. Croatia<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lazaros Christodoulopoulos (AEK FC) \u2013 v. Olympiacos FC<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Giorgian De Arrascaeta (Cruzeiro) \u2013 v. Am\u00e9rica MG<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Riley McGree (Newcastle Jets FC) \u2013 v. Melbourne City FC<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lionel Messi (Argentina) \u2013 v. Nigeria<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Benjamin Pavard (France) \u2013 v. Argentina<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ricardo Quaresma (Portugal) \u2013 v. IR Iran<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid CF) \u2013 v. Juventus FC<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mohamed Salah (Liverpool FC) \u2013 v. Everton FC<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The winners will be crowned on September 24.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/muslim-player-nominated-for-fifa-award\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian Mohamed Salah, Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and Croatian Luka Modric were shortlisted for the 2018 Best FIFA Men&#8217;s Player award. According to a FIFA statement on Monday, Argentinean Lionel Messi missed out on the shortlist for the 2018 Best FIFA Men&#8217;s Player award. Mohamed Salah had scored 32 Premier League goals last season while Ronaldo &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47916,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47915\/revisions\/47916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}