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#3 Deserving players are ignored
Another reason why The Best FIFA Football Awards is fast becoming a joke is that well-deserving players are getting ignored in favour of less-deserving ones. The Puskas Award is just one example, but how do you explain Daniel Alves getting into the FIFPro team of the year?
To be fair, the awards now looks like one which has been made to sideline Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. There is no doubt that both players deserved to be in the top three nominees. Messi may not have had a good World Cup, but overall he still had a better season that Luka Modric and Mohamed Salah.
However, the Argentinian was inexplicably omitted from the final three. Ronaldo fans also have every right to be aggrieved that the Juventus attacker did not win the award. The Portuguese was Real Madrid’s main man as they won the Champions League last season, and also scored 4 goals at the World Cup, despite Portugal’s early exit.
If that does not qualify him to win the FIFA Best Player award, then no else deserves it. The fact is that deserving players continue to be ignored in all categories, and that could soon be the undoing of the awards.
