Vinicius and Rodri. Or Rodri and Vinicius. As it could not be otherwise, they are the two main favorites to win the award for the best player of 2024 at the Globe Soccer Awards Gala in Dubai that will be held at the Atlantis Hotel in La Palmera. The 15th edition of this lavish event organized by the Dubai Sports Council together with the 19th International Sports Conference and with MARCA as the official media outlet will probably serve as a tiebreaker between Rodri with his Ballon d’Or-UEFA (October 29 in Paris) and Vinicius with his The Best-FIFA (December 17 in Doha).
In the best player category, in addition to Vinicius and Rodri, the more than 100 million votes cast by fans around the world have resulted in 16 other finalists. Among them are five Real Madrid players (Vinicius, Mbappe, Bellingham, Carvajal and Kroos), two from Barcelona (Lamine Yamal and Lewandowski) and one from Atletico (Griezmann), half of them belong to La Liga. City have the aforementioned Rodri alongside the current winner, Erling Haaland. Other nominees include Salah, Kane, Lautaro or the evergreen Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
In the best coach category, Spanish dominance is evident: five of the nine finalists represent Spain (Xabi Alonso, De la Fuente, Guardiola, Luis Enrique and Arteta), but it is Carlo Ancelotti who is the favorite for those five titles won with Real Madrid. There is also another clear favorite in the Emerging Player or Best Promise category, where none of the other nine finalists, including Cubarsi, Güler, Garnacho and Savinho, will find it easy to unseat Lamine Yamal, who at 17 years of age has already established himself among the elite of world soccer.
Two other award categories at this 15th Globe Soccer Gala are for best striker and best midfielder. In the attackers’ category there are 10 finalists, among whom neither Lionel Messi nor Cristiano Ronaldo appear for the first time, but there are Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappe, Harry Kane, Vinicius Junior, Mohamed Salah, Lautaro Martinez, Lamine Yamal, Nico Williams, Artem Dovbyk and Phil Foden. As for the best midfielders, among the 11 nominees there is one already retired (Toni Kroos) and 10 active: Rodri, Jude Bellingham, Dani Olmo, Federico Valverde, Vitinha, Florian Wirtz, Granit Xhaka, Nicolo Barella, Cole Palmer and Hakan Calhanoglu.
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