The Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, the Belgians Eden Hazard and Kevin de Bruyne, the French Antoine Griezmann, Kylian Mbappé and Raphael Varane, the English Harry Kane, the Argentine Lionel Messi, the Croatian Luka Modrić and the Moroccan Mohamed Salah are the 10 nominees for the award 'The Best' awarded by FIFA to the most outstanding players of the year. 

The recent victory of France in the World Cup in Russia has made the selection gala is the most represented in the nominations.

In women's football the candidates are: Lucy Bronze (ING / Olympique Lyonnais) Pernille Harder (DIN / Wolfsburg) Ada Hegerberg (NOR / Olympique Lyonnais) Amandine Henry (FRA / Olympique Lyonnais) Samantha Kerr (AUS / Sky Blue FC / Perth Glory FC / Chicago Red Stars) Saki Kumagai (JAP / Olympique Lyonnais) Dzsenifer Marozsán (GER / Olympique Lyonnais) Marta (BRA / Orlando Pride) Megan Rapinoe (USA / Seattle Reign) and Wendie Renard (FRA / Olympique Lyonnais).

In the section of coaches, the one of the Athletic one of Madrid, Diego Simeone: the one of the FC Barcelona, ​​Ernesto Valverde, and Zinedine Zidane, trainer of the Real Madrid the past season, appears between the 11 nominated ones. 

Along with these three, the rest of the candidates unveiled on Tuesday by FIFA are the Frenchman Didier Deshamps, winner of the last World Cup, the Croatian Zlatko Dalić, finalist in Russia 2018, the Russian coach Stanislav Cherchesov, the Englishman Gareth Southgate, the Spanish coach of the Belgian national team, Roberto Martínez, 'Pep' Guardiola (Manchester City), Massimiliano Allegri (Juventus) and Jürgen Klopp (Liverpool). 

Jorge Vilda, coach of the Spanish women's team, has been included among the ten nominees for the award 'The Best' awarded by FIFA to the best female football coach in 2018. 

Vilda qualified the Spanish team for next year's Women's World Cup in France , with six wins, 17 goals in favor and only one against, in a season in which La Roja also won the Cyprus Cup, ahead of Italy, North Korea and Switzerland. 

German Spaniard Stephan Lerch (Wolfsburg), Englishman Mark Parsons (Portland Thorns), French Reynald Pedros (Olympique Lyon), Australian coach Alen Stajcic, Brazilian coach Vadao and four coaches Emma Hayes (Chelsea) are also candidates. the Japanese coach Asako Takakura, the German Martina Voss-Tecklenburg (Swiss coach), the Dutch coach Sarina Wiegman. Among the nominees, chosen by a panel of experts, will be the three finalists of each section, in a vote in which the fans will participate, through the internet, journalists, selectors and captains of the national teams. The three most voted will attend the gala to be held on September 24 in London, where the name of the winner will be revealed.