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While the protagonists for the year's best player have remained largely the same since 2008, FIFA's split from Ballon d'Or means Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are competing for two separate gongs.
Ronaldo and Messi have dominated the award over the past eight years, with no other player winning the accolade as the world's best since Kaka in 2007.
Ronaldo who was the hot favourite to scoop his fourth award having previously won it in 2008, 2013 and 2014 after winning both the Champions League with Real Madrid and Europ 2016 with Portugal just won it tonight.

But how has the most prestigious individual honour in world football evolved and does the new Best FIFA Men's Player

Award now hold greater weight?

This year's event on Monday in Paris, gave answers a Q&A on how the Ballon d'Or came about, when it joined and split from FIFA and all the details ahead of the upcoming ceremonies.


When did the Ballon d'Or begin?

The Ballon d'Or was first won by Sir Stanley Matthews in 1956 when the then Blackpool winger pipped Real Madrid great Alfredo Di Stefano to the prize in a points system based on voting by football journalists.
Originally, only European players were in contention for the Ballon d'Or, but from 1995 all players at European clubs were made eligible.
The award was presented by France Football from its inception all the way through to 2009, but has been revived for this year.

So what's the FIFA World Player of the Year award?

Back in 2009, the Ballon d'or merged with the FIFA World Player of the Year award, and this time international journalists, national team coaches and captains were allowed to vote.
The FIFA World Player of the Year award had come into existence after Italia '90, with West Germany stalwart Lothar Matthaus the first recipient in 1991 for helping his country to World Cup glory.
After 10 years of it being an award presented annually by the sport's governing body to the world's best male footballer, it was awarded to both sexes from 2001.
Brazilian Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane both won the award on three separate occasions, with the former and Ronaldinho the only two players to have won it in successive seasons.
Since 2010, it has has been presented exclusively to the best female player, in the same year as the inaugural FIFA Ballon d'Or.




How does the Best FIFA Men's Player Award differ from the FIFA Ballon d'Or?


While France Football released a 30-man list for their award, a 23-man shortlist was also drawn up for the new Best FIFA Men's Player 2016 award at the start of last month, which has since been whittled down to three.
FIFA ended its association with Ballon d'Or in September, meaning that Ronaldo and Messi will as of this year be competing for two separates gongs.


While solely journalists having voted for this year's Ballon d'Or, the voting for the Best FIFA Men's Player encompasses four separate groups.
It marks a change to the original format, with the general public now being allowed to cast their vote, alongside media representatives, national team coaches, and national team captains.
Each group has 25 per cent of the overall vote, with the public able to select from the shortlist via an online ballot and 200 media representatives selected to take part.

The Best FIFA Men's Player for 2016 award was narrowed down to three players on December 2, with Messi and Ronaldo joined by Atletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann.
The winner was crowned at the Best FIFA Football Awards ceremony on January 9 in Zurich, along with the Best Women's Player and FIFA Puskas award (for the best goal of 2016).


[b]LIST OF BALLON D'OR WINNERS BEFORE FIFA PARTNERSHI[/b]P
1956 Stanley Matthews
1957 Alfredo Di Stefano
1958 Raymond Kopa
1959 Alfredo Di Stefano
1960 Luis Suarez
1961 Omar Sivori
1962 Josef Masopust
1963 Lev Yashin
1964 Denis Law
1965 Eusebio
1966 Bobby Charlton
1967 Florian Albert
1968 George Best
1969 Gianni Rivera
1970 Gerd Muller
1971 Johan Cruyff
1972 Franz Beckenbauer
1973 Johan Cruyff
1974 Johan Cruyff
1975 Oleg Blokhin
1976 Franz Beckenbauer
1977 Allan Simonsen
1978 Kevin Keegan
1979 Kevin Keegan
1980 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
1981 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
1982 Paolo Rossi
1983 Michel Platini
1984 Michel Platini
1985 Michel Platini
1986 Igor Belanov
1987 Ruud Gullit
1988 Marco van Basten
1989 Marco van Basten
1990 Lothar Matthaus
1991 Jean-Pierre Papin
1992 Marco van Basten
1993 Roberto Baggio
1994 Hristo Stoichkov
1995 George Weah
1996 Matthias Sammer
1997 Ronaldo
1998 Zinedine Zidane
1999 Rivldo
2000 Luis Figo
2001 Michael Owen
2002 Ronaldo
2003 Pavel Nedved
2004 Andriy Shevchenko
2005 Ronaldinho
2006 Fabio Cannavaro
2007 Kaka
2008 Cristiano Ronaldo
2009 Lionel Messi

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And the Admin did not hide this post?



You are a disgrace to human race

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Sad news all over the world and even on Nairaland

Been staring inside that hole but i cant see nothing..

Well I just remembered my password after 3 years off NAIRALAND
Complements of the season

MasterRahl:
Good point raised. Funny enough I'm reading this three years after it was posted by the original author.

and i just came back online 3 years later

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Perfectionist11:
Op please if Ye can edit this..don't use d term "Muslims would invade europe"..Muslims aren't invaders..a term like "Radical Islamists" is better.

NOTED, THANKS

favourmic:
I think she is from Bulgaria if I'm not wrong

She is not a Bulgarian, she only settled there

MORE ABOUT VANGA (VANGELIA) PANDEVA



Vanga settled in Bulgaria’s Petrich during the 1930s, where she predicted the beginning of WWII. Her fame spread very quickly throughout Bulgaria, and one day she was visited by King Boris III. Vanga warned the king against Bulgaria’s participation in the war. Bulgarian politicians did not listen: the country joined Hitler and then found itself among the defeated. It was only the post-war patronage of the USSR that rescued Bulgaria from the territorial dismemberment.

The Bulgarian politicians, who visited Vanga, spread the news about the prophetess to their counterparts from other countries. As a result, Vanga became known in the whole world. The list of events, which she predicted so precisely, is really impressive.

King Boris III visited her again in 1942 and 1943. The blind woman (she was in her thirties back then) told the king that he would die on August 28, 1943. In February of 1943 she told the king that she could see a red flag above his palace. Her predictions came true. King Boris III died on August 28, and the red flag was raised above Sofia in the autumn of 1944. Bulgaria became a socialist country.

In socialist Bulgaria, where Vanga spent most of her life, people treated clairvoyants and mystics mostly negatively. Communists believed that Vanga was spreading superstitions, distracting people from the building of socialism. In the autumn of 1952, the prophetess found herself in big trouble when she said that Josef Stalin would go into the nether world. Vanga was jailed as a result of that prediction, albeit not for long.

The prophesy came true – the Soviet generalissimo died indeed. Stalin’s death did not save the prophetess from political persecution, though. The fact that Vanga was a native of Macedonia (Yugoslavia) was haunting the minds of Bulgarian special services. Bulgaria was having very tense relations with Josip Broz Tito’s Yugoslavia, which gave Bulgarian secret service a reason to believe that the prophetess was an agent of the western neighbor.

During the 1970s, Bulgarian special services continued to collect compromising materials against Vanga. They searched her home once and found 90,000 levs, which was a huge amount of money for a socialist country. Vanga was not jailed, but she was described in reports as an underdeveloped and impudent woman.

There were high-ranking officials in the country, who defended Vanga. Many in Bulgaria still remember the story when an official lost his briefcase with important documents. The police and the special services could not find the case, so they had to ask Vanga’s help. The case was found, and the prophetess was awarded with a letter of gratitude.

In general, one may say that the authorities of socialist Bulgaria treated Vanga differently. On the one hand, the communist ideology made the authorities struggle against the “witch.” On the other hand, the local elite realized that they could make profit on Vanga. Special services took her visitors under control and began to collect 10 levs from Bulgarian and $50 – from foreign visitors. Economists calculated that Vanga brought 9 million levs to the Bulgarian treasury.

In 1967, Vanga was employed for a non-existent position as a “state official.” Her life took such a turn owing to the efforts taken by the daughter of then Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov, Lyudmila Zhivkova. Lyudmila was interested in esoteric teachings and visited the prophetess many times. Lyudmila enjoyed great popularity in the country. She developed a very warm friendship with Vanga herself.

In the beginning of 1979 Vanga said that Lyudmila Zhivkova would die in a car accident. Special services tried to prevent the tragedy, but it did not help. Zhivkova survived the car accident, but then died two years later.

In 1987, when Todor Zhivkov was still ruling the country, Vanga predicted major changes for the nation to come. She said that Bulgaria would soon have another leader, a prominent scientist, who would not be a proponent of Lenin’s doctrine. In 1992, Bulgarian philosopher Zhelyu Zhelev came to power in the country. The socialist regime in Bulgaria collapsed, and the country continued its development following EU and NATO standards.

Vanga was predicting major political events happening in the whole world. She predicted the incursion of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia, the assassinations of US President John F. Kennedy, Indian prime ministers Indira and Rajiv Gandhi, the collapse of Anastasio Somoza’s dictatorship in Nicaragua and many other historic events.

Nowadays, many Russians wonder if Vanga’s prophecy about Russia is going to come true some day or not. In 1979, during her meeting with writer Valentin Sidorov, Vanga said: “All will thaw, as if ice, only one remain untouched – Vladimir’s glory, glory of Russia. Too much it is brought in a victim. Nobody can stop Russia. All will be removed by her from the way and not only will be kept, but also becomes the lord of the world.”

Before her death in 1996, Vanga predicted glorious future for Russia again. According to the Bulgarian clairvoyant, Russia will be the world’s only superpower. Specialists calculated that 68 percent of her prophecies had come true. We only can wait and see if her other prophecies become real or not.

walearoy:
Nothing about Boko Haram?

go online and do research about her,am sure you will find more

Guys she was half right when she said this "Barack Obama will be the last president of the US: Baba Vanga had predicted that the 44th US president would be an African American, but she had also added that he would be the last one. According to her, he would leave office at a time when the country would be in economic ruins, and there would be a huge divide between the northern and southern states – as was the case during the American Civil War. "Because Barack Obama is president now and on May this year there was a huge dollar collapse which was a huge economic crisis for the whole world so by the time the new president is elected USA is going to be in a huge economic disaster

[center]SHE DIED IN 1996 BUT PREDICTED ISIS, 9/11, THE ARAB SPRING, OBAMA…A 2016 “MUSLIM WAR” AND RUSSIAN[/center]



[center]BABA VANGA THE GREATEST BULGARIAN PROPHETESS[/center]







Vanga lost her sight when she was 12. She was swept away by a mighty tornado. Later she was found alive, covered with dirt and stones, with sand in her eyes. She became blind as a result.

Vanga started making predictions when she was 16. She helped her father find a sheep stolen from the flock. She provided a detailed description of a yard where the animal was being hidden by the thieves. Her powers of foreseeing took shape after she turned 30.

Many a statesman visited Vanga. Adolf Hitler called on her one day. He left her house looking rather upset.

Vanga died in 1996 and predicted many of the major global shocks such as the tsunami of 2004 or the attack on the Twin Towers. And now, one last omen seems to begin to be fulfilled: according Baba Yanga, 2016 would be the year that “Muslims will invade Europe”.

Yanga Baba prophesied that in 2018 China will be the first “super power” in the world, taking the lead from the already worn U.S, plus, she added, in the same year a space probe will discover “a new form of energy” in planet Venus.

But that is not the end of the story, the great seer even said that things will start deteriorate for the U.S, and that the “African American” president would be “the last” acting president of the northern country.

“African American”president would be the last acting president of the U.S.”

Vangelia Pandeva Dimitrova also predicted the attacks on the Twin Towers, when in 1989 she said:

“Horror, horror! The American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds. The wolves will be howling in a bush, and innocent blood will be gushing.” (1989)

Happened as predicted. The World Trade Center Towers in New York collapsed following terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . The WTC Towers were dubbed “Twins” or “Brothers.” The terrorists drove passenger planes –“the steel birds”- into the towers. “The bush” obviously relates to the surname of the current U.S. president.

She also anticipated the devastating tsunami in 2004 that hit the Thai coast,

“a big wave will cover a large coast with people and villages where everything disappears under water.”

She also said that in 2023 the Earth’s orbit would change, which would “melt the poles” and set fire in the “Middle East”





The old woman said:

“great Islamic war” would begin in Syria culminating in complete control of Rome, in 2043.




It also stated that there would be established a definitive Caliphate and that Europe “would cease to exist”, to become a continent “almost empty “and” wastelands devoid of any form of life. ”

One of the most shocking prediction was made in 1980. The blind old woman said: “At the turn of the century, in August of 1999 or 2000, Kursk will be covered with water, and the whole world will be weeping over it.”

The prediction did not make any sense back then. Twenty years on, it made a horrifying sense. A Russian nuclear submarine perished in an accident in August of 2000. The sub was named after the city of Kursk , which by no means could have been covered with water.

Among the many predictions, there are some quite exotic, such as ensuring that aliens will help man to live underwater in 2130, or a possible war on Mars in 3005.

Finally, perhaps the most fantastic yet the most apocalyptic:

Vanga assured that there will be no survivors on Earth, circa 3797.




Here we leave a list of predictions for the coming years:

2016. Muslims invade Europe.
2023. There will be major changes in the Earth’s orbit.
2025. The population of Europe will disappear as a result of wars.
2028. There will be an attempt to travel to other planets like Venus, with the hope of finding other sources of energy to Earth.
2033. Water levels rise due to the melting of the poles.
2076. Communism contagious return to Europe and the rest of the world.
2084. The rebirth of nature.
2100. A new sun illuminates the dark side of the planet. This could refer to a scientific project that began in 2008 and will create an artificial sun using nuclear energy.
2130. extraterrestrial civilizations might reach our planet.
2170. Global Drought.
2187. Two large volcanoes erupt.
2262. Mars is threatened by a comet.
2480. Two artificial Suns collide and leave the Earth in total darkness.
3005. A war on Mars will change the trajectory of the planet.
3010. A comet reaches the Moon, so the Earth is covered by a ring of rocks and ashes.
3797. The Earth dies but mankind has advanced enough to move to a new solar system.
5079: The universe will end.



And what do you think?

Two Nigerian players have been included in the 25-man list for the 2014 African footballer of the year by the continent's premier football body.






The Confederation of African Football has released the shortlists for the 2014 African Player of the Year with Vincent Enyeama and Ahmed Musa making the cut in the 25-man list that has reigning Africa’s best player Yaya Toure of Cote d’Ivoire.

Musa and Enyeama were part of the Super Eagles’ squad that won the 2013 African Nations Cup in South Africa and helped Nigeria reach the second round of the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil.

In picking the nominees, Caf took into consideration the performances of the nominees for their national teams and clubs from January to November 2014.

The Head Coaches of the National Associations affiliated to Caf will vote in their order of preference to decide on the eventual winners of the two categories.

The winner will be announced at the Glo-Caf Awards Gala scheduled for January 8, 2015 in Lagos, Nigeria.

NOMINEES IN FULL

Asamoah Gyan (Ghana, Al-Ain)
Kwadwo Asamoah (Ghana, Juventus)
Dame N’doye (Senegal, Lokomotiv Moscow)
Sadio Mané (Senegal, Southampton)
Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo, Tottenham)
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting(Cameroon, Schalke 04)
Stephane Mbia (Cameroon , Sevilla)
Vincent Aboubakar (Cameroon , Porto)
Yao Kouassi Gervais (Cote d’Ivoire, AS Roma)
Wilfred Bony (Cote d’Ivoire, Swansea)
Yaya Toure (Cote d’Ivoire, Manchester City)
Fakhreddine Ben Youssef (Tunisia, CS Sfaxien)
Ferdjani Sassi (Tunisia, CS Sfaxien)
Islam Slimani (Algeria, Sporting Lisbon)
Raïs M’Bolhi (Algeria, Philadelphia Union)
Sofiane Feghouli (Algeria, Valencia)
Yacine Brahimi (Algeria, Porto)
Yannick Bolasie (DR Congo, Crystal Palace)
Thulani Serero (South Africa, Ajax)
Seydou Keita (Mali, As Roma)
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon, Borussia Dortmund)
Mohamed El Neny ( Egypt, Basel)
Vincent Enyeama (Nigeria, Lille)
Ahmed Musa (Nigeria, CSKA Moscow)