Ronaldo, Salah and Modric nominated for FIFA best player award

FIFA has announced the official three-man shortlist for the award and snubbed superstar Lionel Messi

LONDON: Cristiano Ronaldo faces stiff competition from former Real Madrid team-mate Luka Modric and Egypt's Mohamed Salah to be crowned FIFA's player of the year for a sixth time.

Finalists: #TheBest FIFA Men's Player Award 🏆

🇵🇹 @Cristiano
🇭🇷 @lukamodric10
🇪🇬 @MoSalah

#FIFAFootballAwards pic.twitter.com/L1ckRiZTv6

— FIFA (@FIFAcom) September 3, 2018

Ronaldo was the competition's top scorer in lifting a fourth Champions League title in five years before heading for pastures new with Juventus in July.

Modric is also part of that Madrid side that has dominated the Champions League in recent years and won the Golden Ball for the best player at the World Cup for leading Croatia to the final.



Salah scored 44 goals in an incredible debut season for Liverpool before being robbed of his chance to make an impression in the Champions League final by an early injury.

Meanwhile, France's World Cup winning manager Didier Deschamps, Zlatko Dalic and Zinedine Zidane are also  nominated as the finalists for FIFA's coach of the year award on Monday.



Deschamps became just the third man to win the World Cup as a player and coach with victory over Dalic's Croatia in July's final in Russia.

Finalists: #TheBest Men’s Coach Award 🏆

🇭🇷 @DalicZlatko
🇫🇷 Didier Deschamps
🇫🇷 Zinedine Zidane#FIFAFootballAwards pic.twitter.com/zZkhVVOq6W

— FIFA (@FIFAcom) September 3, 2018

Zidane was a team-mate of Deschamps when France first won the World Cup in 1998 and is nominated after guiding Real Madrid to a third Champions League in his two-and-a-half year reign at the Bernabeu before stepping down in June.